Composition and Rhetoric (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Henry W. Holmes

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 133059973X ISBN 13 : 9781330599730

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

English Composition in high schools ought not to be taught as if all boys and girls hoped to be authors. Whatever power to write or speak it may develop will be applied by most pupils in the course of a common days work and in very ordinary ways. They will use it, for example, in writing letters, reports, or notices, and hi preparing short speeches, announcements, or accounts of events. In large part, therefore, high school composition should deal with the fundamental factors of effective expression, with sentence structure, punctuation, paragraphing, and the organization of the whole composition. With refinements of literary skill it should deal little, if at all. The necessary exposition of principles and the still more necessary practice in applying them should be made significant by connecting the whole process, not primarily with literature and the lure of an artistic career, but with the actual demands of life at school and the opportunities of the commoner occupations in the world without. Not that literary values, literary models, or interest hi the purely literary problems of composition need be ignored. Some boys and girls do hope to be authors. Many boys and girls enjoy trying to write stories, descriptions, and expositions without more immediate aim than to interest or inform the reader. There is, besides, an adolescent desire for expression that often finds its first outlet in the high-school class in composition. More important still, literature contains the most striking exemplifications of the very principles which must be applied in effective compositions of the practical sort. Artistic forms of composition cannot be neglected; but they should not receive either exclusive or primary attention. This book embodies these principles in a text for first and second year high-school classes. No doubt it is not the only book written in the light of
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 133059973X
• ISBN 13: 9781330599730
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 367
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