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Composition-Rhetoric
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Title: Composition-Rhetoric
Author: Stratton D. Brooks
Release Date: April 20, 2004 [EBook #12088]
Language: English
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COMPOSITION-RHETORIC
BY
STRATTON D. BROOKS _Superintendent of Schools, Boston, Mass._
AND
MARIETTA HUBBARD _Formerly English Department, High School La Salle, Illinois_
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NEW YORK - CINCINNATI - CHICAGO AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY
1905 STRATTON D. BROOKS.
Entered at Stationers' Hall, London.
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To MARCIA STUART BROOKS Whose teaching first demonstrated to the authors that composition could become a delight and pleasure, this book is dedicated......
PREFACE
The aim of this book is not to produce critical readers of literature, nor to prepare the pupil to answer questions about rhetorical theory, but to enable every pupil to express in writing, freely, clearly, and forcibly, whatever he may find within him worthy of expression.
Three considerations of fundamental importance underlie the plan of the book:--
First, improvement in the performance of an act comes from the repetition of that act accompanied by a conscious effort to omit the imperfections of the