PREFACE

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTORY EXPLANATIONS

CHAPTER I THE ART OF WRITING ENGLISH

CHAPTER II ON READING ALOUD, AND ON SPELLING

CHAPTER III A REVIEW OF PUNCTUATION

CHAPTER IV GRAMMATICAL PHASES OF WRITING ENGLISH

CHAPTER V ON DIVIDING A PARAGRAPH INTO SENTENCES

CHAPTER VI ON WELL-KNIT SENTENCES

CHAPTER VII ON ORGANIZING THE THEME

CHAPTER VIII ON CORRECTNESS IN CHOICE OF WORDS

CHAPTER IX SOURCES OF THE ENGLISH VOCABULARY

CHAPTER X THE MASTERY OF A WRITING VOCABULARY

CHAPTER XI RIGHT NUMBER AND SKILFUL CHOICE OF WORDS

CHAPTER XII LETTER-WRITING

CHAPTER XIII REPRODUCTION, ABSTRACT, SUMMARY, ABRIDGMENT

CHAPTER XIV NARRATION AND DESCRIPTION

CHAPTER XV EXPOSITION AND ARGUMENT Exposition

FOOTNOTES

SUBJECT INDEX

INDEX OF AUTHORS QUOTED

A FIRST BOOK
IN WRITING ENGLISH

A FIRST BOOK
IN
WRITING ENGLISH

BY
EDWIN HERBERT LEWIS, Ph.D.
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH IN LEWIS INSTITUTE
AND IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd.
1897

All rights reserved

Copyright, 1897,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith
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