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Elements of Rhetoric and English Composition
Elements of Rhetoric and English Composition Author:George Rice Carpenter, G R Carpenter Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II COMPOSITIONS 9. The Importance Of Composition Work. —10. How To Choose A Subject. —11. Subjects From The Course In EngLish Literature. — 12. Sub... more »jects From Other Studies. — 13. Subjects From Home Reading And From Life. —14. Too Ambitious Subjects. — Exercise 2. — 15. The Form Of A Composition. —16. The Use Of Capitals In Titles.— ExerCise 3.—17. The First Essentials Of A Good Composition.— 18. Hints As To Spelling.— Exercise 4.—19. The ImporTance Of Accuracy. — 20. Paragraphs. 9. The Importance of Composition Work. — It is evident from the preceding chapter how important it is that work in composition should accompany and supplement work in formal rhetoric. All the author of this book can do is to put down in the clearest way and in the best order possible the elementary rules and principles of rhetoric, and to provide good exercises for the application of these rules. All that the teacher can do, in this part of his work, is to see that the pupil masters the rules and principles and applies them intelligently in the given exercises. But the work of applying principles goes further than this. Each pupil should write a short composition, — as a rule, at least twice a week, — and should there apply, more independently than inan exercise, the whole group of principles which he is studying.1 10. How to Choose a Subject. — In order that composition work be carried on successfully, without unnecessary labor on the part of the teacher, it is indispensable that the pupil should get accustomed to choosing his own subjects for compositions. Subjects may be chosen from many sources, as will be shown below. From whatever source the pupil chooses a subject, however, he should make certain (i) that he has some definite ideas about the subject, and (2) that he is interes...« less