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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1922 Original Publisher: The Century Co. Subjects: English language Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: A MINIMUM COURSE IN RHETORIC Definition. -- English rhetoric is the study of how to compose English in the best possible way. CHAPTER I UNITY THE FIRST QUALITY OF GOOD ENGLISH 1. The first and most important quality of good English is unity. Unity requires that a composition should give the impression of dealing with only one subject, that a paragraph should give the impression of dealing with only one branch of the subject, and that a sentence should give the impression of dealing with only one thought. UNITY OF THE COMPOSITION OB THEME 2. A composition or theme, to possess unity, must give the impression of dealing with only one subject. Every sentence and every paragraph must have some direct connection with the theme-subject. 3. In planning a theme, do not begin too far afield; do not let your introduction or conclusion (if you have any) tempt you too far away from your real subject; after you are once started on your subject, do not wander away from it. UNITY OF THE PARAGRAPH 4. A paragraph, to possess unity, must give the impression of dealing with only one branch of the subject. Fix on adefinite single topic for each paragraph. Every sentence in the paragraph must have some direct connection with the paragraph-topic. UNITY OF THE SENTENCE 5. A sentence, to possess unity, must give the impression of dealing with only one thought. In other words, it should contain only those ideas which seem to belong together, seem to be parts of a single thought. 6. The following sentence is rather long, and contains a good many dif...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781150329678
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 274
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Width: 229 mm
  • ISBN-10: 115032967X
  • Publisher Date: 22 Dec 2009
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 404 gr


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