English Composition: With Chapters on Precis Writing, Prosody and StyleCUP Archive, 1926 - 430 pages |
Contents
Accuracy in the Construction of Words | 5 |
Accuracy in the Choice of Words or in the Meaning | 37 |
Exercises XXIIXXIX | 51 |
Perspicuity | 58 |
Strength or Impressiveness | 86 |
Figures of Speech | 96 |
Melody | 112 |
24 | 119 |
Selected Essays from the great Essayists | 213 |
Essays and Outlines | 231 |
F Miscellaneous Themes | 244 |
Paraphrasing page | 249 |
Modernizing older Prose | 280 |
Précis Writing | 288 |
Interpretation of Figurative and Allusive | 311 |
The Elements and Qualities of Style | 329 |
B The Middle of the Essay | 186 |
Practice in Composition | 194 |
Selected Questions from Public Examinations | 385 |
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