Plain Principles of Prose Composition
Author: William Minto
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Published: 1893
Total Pages: 112
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Published: 1893
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alphonso G. Newcomer
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Published: 2016-11-18
Total Pages: 394
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the PREFACE. This book differs from most treatises upon rhetoric and composition in two particulars-arrangement, and proportion. The common order is reversed, and the study of words, instead of being put first, is put last, while at the outset attention is centred upon methods of gathering and ordering material. The reason for this should be plain. Composition must begin with ideas. Diction is the very last consideration in the process of constructing an essay- it may even be reserved until revision. If words be thrust first upon the attention, the student naturally supposes that words, instead of the ideas behind them, are his raw material. Composition becomes to him wholly an artificial thing. Freshness, independence, naturalness, ease, are put far from him, perhaps never to be attained. It is a matter of history that, excepting here and there a Pater and a Stevenson, our masters of letters have not come into their kingdom through wrestling with words. Such I offer as the main defense of this book, and reason for its being. The proportion of parts has been determined both by the foregoing consideration and by experience. The bulk of matter in our rhetorics is traditionary and, except for higher, critical purposes, useless. Good writing depends chiefly on half a dozen things-on managing properly the few words that represent the germ ideas, on keeping sentences from being submerged by the weight of their own clauses, on attending to the articulation (the relation-words of all kinds, the pronouns), on logical arrangement and proportionate emphasis of ideas. These few things are emphasized here. Discussion of barbarisms, provincialisms, tropes, etc., is for the most part avoided. The ground is nearly always unsafe. Judgment is difficult, legislation well-nigh impossible. Besides, it is in these matters that individuality of style chiefly lies, and that is a thing that teacher and text-book alike must touch sacredly. Hence the slight treatment accorded to diction, to words and phrases as such: the sentence, the paragraph, and the whole composition are more easily reduced to law. Hence, too, the subordination of narration and description, on which point see further Section Five. In short, I have kept in view constructive or applied rhetoric, rather than critical, the art rather than the science, enlarging upon whatever bears directly on practice, and reducing to a minimum all else. Discussion of obsolete words, for example, is, in a rhetoric, only dead matter. No student ever writes obsolete words. By leaving the study of them to those courses in English classics which all our schools now provide, and in which the study becomes a vital thing, rhetoric is relieved of a useless burden. Perhaps an exception should be made in the case of figures of speech, which would be without systematic treatment if our rhetorics did not give it. Besides, some figures are mechanical and may be artificially employed....
Author: Alphonso Gerald Newcomer
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Published: 2015-07-11
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9781331184027
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from Elements of Rhetoric: A Course in Plain Prose Composition This book differs from most treatises upon rhetoric and composition in two particulars - arrangement, and proportion. The common order is reversed, and the study of words, instead of being put first, is put last, while at the outset attention is centred upon methods of gathering and ordering material. The reason for this should be plain. Composition must begin with ideas. Diction is the very last consideration in the process of constructing an essay - it may even be reserved until revision. If words be thrust first upon the attention, the student naturally supposes that words, instead of the ideas behind them, are his raw material. Composition becomes to him wholly an artificial thing. Freshness, independence, naturalness, ease, are put far from him, perhaps never to be attained. It is a matter of history that, excepting here and there a Pater and a Stevenson, our masters of letters have not come into their kingdom through wrestling with words. Such I offer as the main defense of this book, and reason for its being. The proportion of parts has been determined both by the foregoing consideration and by experience. The bulk of matter in our rhetorics is traditionary and, except for higher, critical purposes, useless. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Edward Fulton
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Published: 2012-08
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9781290637879
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Author: Edward Fulton
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-10-12
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780265212424
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from English Prose Composition: With Illustrative Examples Composition a building up process - Sources of the writer's material - Individuality in writing - Import ance of the habit of observing things. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: James Morgan Hart
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Published: 2018-03-03
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780666835383
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from The Essentials of Prose Composition This book, accordingly, is only a strenuous effort on my part to image, see p. 175, the English question and dis cover the most practicable solution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: J. M. Bonnell
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Published: 2016-10-11
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9781333915940
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from A Manual of the Art of Prose Composition: For the Use of Colleges and Schools IN the preparation of this work, it has been no part of the compiler's aim to be original. He has sought rather to select from the various treatises on this subject those rules and exercises which have been approved by the experience 'of teachers, and to com bine them into one consistent whole, arranged with reference to the progressive development of the learner's powers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: J. M. Bonnell
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Published: 2017-05-18
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780259530152
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from First Lessons in English Prose CompositionProprieties OF style. XVII. - Diction, XVIII. - XX. - Propriety of Diction, XXL - Original Composition, as before.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.