The Elements of Rhetoric and Composition
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ISBN13: 9780217796484
Paperback|9780217796484
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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 III WHAT TO WRITE ABOUT 1. The two preceding chapters have not considered a question that often seems to the student the most im.. portant of all, ? What is there to write about ? Where is he to find material which will be of interest to readers of average taste and intelligence, and which he can make into themes under the guidance of good use and the principles of composition? The material for all kinds of writing, themes or books, must be drawn from experience or reading. In either case a writer must choose subjects that he has ideas about and is interested in. Then he will have something to start with; he will not continue to ask, what shall I write about this ? but rather, what do I think about this ? 2. Our experience includes games, studies, amusements, thoughts, conversations, adventures, and much else. Whatever we are doing, the great world and all its happenings, life and all its emotions, these furnish the material for literature, and they furnish material for the beginner. In the exercises in this book there are many lists of topics, taken mostly from students' themes; these may in themselves prove interesting, or they may suggest similar topics; but a student cannotbegin too early to make an effort to discover in the events, persons, and places of his own daily life interesting material for his themes. Often merely the inquiry, what interested me most to-day? will provoke a subject in reply. If something novel, entertaining, or amusing, or something of general interest, has occurred, so much the better; but commonplace matters may also afford good subjects. Perhaps the only matter of interest that occurs to the writer is the new street being constructed in front of his house; a careful account of that will surely supply useful practice. Or perhaps nothing..
| ISBN-13 | 9780217796484 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217796486 |
| Weight | 0.81 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.56 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 246 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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