PREFACE
CONTENTS
TABLE OF SECTIONS
TABLE OF EXERCISES
ELEMENTARY COMPOSITION
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER II THE SENTENCE
CHAPTER III THE PARAGRAPH
CHAPTER IV WORDS
CHAPTER V CONDENSATION, EXPANSION, AND PARAPHRASE
CHAPTER VI WHOLE COMPOSITIONS; OUTLINES
CHAPTER VII ORAL COMPOSITION
CHAPTER VIII THE DIARY
CHAPTER IX THE LETTER
CHAPTER X NARRATION
CHAPTER XI DESCRIPTION
CHAPTER XII NARRATION ( Continued )
CHAPTER XIII EXPOSITION
CHAPTER XIV ARGUMENT
CHAPTER XV SECRETARIAL WORK
CHAPTER XVI VERSIFICATION
CHAPTER XVII PUNCTUATION
APPENDIX A. RULES FOR SPELLING
INDEX
BY
DOROTHEA F. CANFIELD
FORMERLY SECRETARY OF THE HORACE MANN SCHOOLS
AND
GEORGE R. CARPENTER
PROFESSOR OF RHETORIC AND ENGLISH COMPOSITION
IN COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO. Ltd.
1918
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1906,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
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Set up and electrotyped. Published August, 1906. Reprinted July, 1907; February, August, 1909; September, 1910; February, 1911; March, 1913; September, 1914; June, 1915; March, twice, November, 1916.
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Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
