Composition and Rhetoric (Classic Reprint)
Hitchcock, Alfred M. Excerpt from Composition and Rhetoric
This manual represents an attempt to bring together in one volume such textbook matter as is needed to facilitate the teaching of composition in secondary schools. It is based on the following conceptions:
I In the earlier years of the course emphasis should fall on practice in oral and written expression through the medium of simple, interesting, carefully graded tasks in composition, accompanied by suc...