Practical English Composition: Book II

Practical English Composition: Book II. - For the Second Year of the High School

This volume is the second in a series of four, each of which has been planned to cover one stage in the composition work of the secondary-school course. These books have been designed to supply material adapted as exactly as possible to the capacity of the pupils. Most of the exercises which they contain have been devised with the idea of reproducing in an elementary form the methods of self-instruction which have been employed by successful writers from Homer to Kipling. Nearly all of them have been subjected to the test of actual classroom use on a large scale. They may be used independently or as supplementary to a more formal textbook. Each volume contains rather more work than an ordinary class can do in one hundred recitations. In each volume will be found exercises that involve each of the four forms of discourse; but emphasis is placed in BookI on description, in BookII on narration, in BookIII on exposition, and in BookIV on argumentation. Similarly, while stress is laid in BookI on letter-writing, in BookII on journalism, in BookIII on literary effect, and in BookIV on the civic aspects of composition, all of these phases of the subject receive attention in each volume. In every lesson of each book provision is made for oral work: first, because it is an end valuable in itself; second, because it is of incalculable use in preparing the ground for written work; third, because it can be made to give the pupil a proper and powerful motive for writing with care; and, fourth, because, when employed with discretion, it lightens the teachers burden without impairing his efficiency. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 21341
Author: Miller, Edwin L. (Edwin Lillie)
Release Date: May 6, 2007
Format: eBook
Language: English