Freshman Rhetoric

Excerpt from Freshman Rhetoric The first seven chapters of this book have been completely rewritten, and the remainder thoroughly revised, so that it is in effect a new work. The most important changes are as follows: 1. Whereas the first edition was originally designed to be used with a companion text-book combining a review of grammar and correction of common errors, and was later issued with a supplementary English Drill Course, partly meeting this need, the present edition embodies in Chapters I, III, and V, and in the Glossary of Common Errors at the end of the book, sufficient material for this elementary review. 2. Particular attention is directed to the constructive exercises in sentence and paragraph writing upon assigned topics in Chapters III and V, which, alternated with freer work in connected exposition (Chapters II and IV), have been found to yield good results in combining discipline with spontaneity. The program is so planned as to avoid long unbroken stretches of necessary but monotonous drill. 3. A larger amount of illustrative specimens of expository paragraphs quoted from standard writers has been introduced into Chapter V. 4. The chapter on the library has been carefully revised to bring it up to date and to make it a more complete guide to elementary library research. 5. In order to allow more time for the elementary review during the first six weeks, chapters on study, recitation, and note taking have been omitted, and the oral work has been reduced. 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.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1913 Edition.

Practicing Writing examines a pivotal era in the history of the most ubiquitous-and possibly most problematic-course in North American colleges and universities: the requireAd first-year writing course generally known as "freshman English." Thomas Masters's focus is the mid-twentieth century, beginning with the returning waves of World War II veterans attending college on the GI Bill. He then traces the education reforms that took place in the late 1950s after the launch of Sputnik and the establishment of composition as a separate discipline in 1963. This study draws upon archives at three midwestern schools that reflect a range of higher education options: Wheaton, a small, sectarian liberal arts college; Northwestern, a large private university; and Illinois, a large public university.Practicing Writing gives voice to those whose work is often taken for granted or forgotten in other studies of the subject: freshman English students and their instructors. Masters examines students' papers, professors' letters, and course descriptions, and draws upon interviews conducted with teachers to present the practitioners' points of view.Unlike other studies of the subject, which have tended to focus more on the philosophy, theory, and ideology of teaching composition and rhetoric, Masters reveals freshman English to be a practice-based phenomenon with a durable ideological apparatus. By reexamining texts that had previously been considered insignificant, he reveals the substance of first-year composition courses and the reasons for their durability.