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Title: Composition-Rhetoric

Author: Stratton D. Brooks

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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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Brooks's Rhet.
W.P. 10

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 former attempt. Therefore, the writing of a new theme in which, the
pupil attempts to avoid the error which occurred in his former theme is of
much greater educational value than is the copying of the old theme for
the purpose o