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"The Anglo-Saxons," Emerson said, "are the hands of the world"--they, more than any other people, turn the wheels of the world, do its work, keep things moving. Without lingering to quarrel with Emerson, or to justify him, we may safely assert that Expository Writing is the ha...
All writing--except mere exercise and what the author intends for himself alone--is a problem in strategy. The successful author will always regard his writing as a problem of m...
8. CHAPTER IVSuppose that the president of a railroad asked you to report on the feasibility of a proposed line through a range of hills; or that you found it necessary to prove to an over-c...
16. CHAPTER VIFew of us pass a day without answering such questions as, "What do you think of the Hudson car?" or, "How did Kreisler's playing strike you?" or, "What is your opinion of the wo...
7. CHAPTER IIIDefinition is the process of explaining a subject by setting bounds to it, enclosing it within its limits, showing its extent. The ocean is properly defined by the shore; a cont...
18. CHAPTER VIIIBiography is of three kinds. First there is the purely dramatic, such as we find in the plays of Shakespeare, Barrie, and others, and often in novels of the more dramatic kind,...
17. CHAPTER VIIIt is a fine thing to be serious, to draw one's self up to a formal task of explaining a machine or analyzing an idea or criticizing a novel; and it is just as fine, and often m...
9. CHAPTER VThe problem of giving directions for making or doing something, or of explaining the working of an organization, is not always easy to solve. Most difficulties, however, occur t...
15. c. For a politician of doubtful character who has servedVI. Compare the two selections which follow, and determine which is the more interesting, and why. Would the kind of treatment that the second receives be fitting for the first?...
19. CHAPTER IXTwo main sources exist from which you can get the material for expository themes: books, including magazines and papers; and lectures or interviews of any kind. Libraries differ...
1. CHAPTER I"The Anglo-Saxons," Emerson said, "are the hands of the world"--they, more than any other people, turn the wheels of the world, do its work, keep things moving. Without lingerin...
3. c. Only after three or four trips of the first bee doII. From what grade in the intellectual and social world does Stevenson select his examples in the paragraph beginning: _If the first view of this creature_, etc.? Why? From wha...
10. letter V, the upper crystal would encounter the letter first, thenthe middle one would respond, next the lower one would come into action for an instant, followed by a second response of the middle crystal and a final response of the upper cry...
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