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Excerpt from A First Book in Writing English
I'r sometimes happens that the study of the prin ciples of composition is left until the overcrowded last year of the high school, under the plea that facts ought to precede generalizations. Is it not better to have the pupil begin two or three years earlier than this to frame simple generalizations for his own future guidance The first year stu dent daily awakes to new experiences and prob lems. He demands rules and reasons: How shall he choose theme topics How much shall he put into a sentence? Why is electrocution in bad usage? Lift principle is asked for, should it not be given as much of it as can be digested? When such a course is followed time enough is left in the big? School £913 composition to become a habit. The complex process wherein invention.
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