ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I THE NATURE AND MATERIAL OF EXPOSITION

CHAPTER II HOW TO WRITE EXPOSITION The Problem

CHAPTER III DEFINITION

CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS

CHAPTER V MECHANISMS, PROCESSES, AND ORGANIZATIONS

CHAPTER VI CRITICISM

CHAPTER VII THE INFORMAL ESSAY

CHAPTER VIII EXPOSITORY BIOGRAPHY

CHAPTER IX THE GATHERING OF MATERIAL FOR WRITING

INDEX OF ILLUSTRATIVE SELECTIONS

INDEX

Transcriber's Note

COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY MERVIN JAMES CURL

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

THE RIVERSIDE PRESS
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
U. S. A.

TO
THE STUDENTS IN RHETORIC III
AT THE
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
WITH WHOM I HAD PLEASANT ASSOCIATION
FROM 1914 TO 1918