Studies in the Technique of Prose Style (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Studies in the Technique of Prose Style Experience of some years has shown that a student finds less difficulty, with more enjoyment and more immediate profit, when working from models than in mastering a lecturer´s abstract requirements and later seeking to embody them. His mind works from example better than from rule, as when he sees a football coach tackle a dummy. Directions would leave him staring and uncertain. Hence, books of specimens. But specimens should first be short, and each should illustrate clearly one point. "Those rules of old, discovered not devised" were discovered in striking passages by famous authors. Such specimens this book offers the student. Here he sees the basis on which each abstraction is founded: the whole operation, not the latter half, passes through his mind; and he works with full understanding. The purpose of the following illustrative models and directions is to place the student in possession one by one of a number of devices of literary technique and enable him to see the means by which writers achieve their effects in exceptionally interesting and beautiful passages. Study and imitation of these should (1) sharpen his observation; (2) refine his taste in style; (3) make flexible his use of language; and (4) develop initiative and ingenuity. Few students conceive of stylistic "pattern" (see XVI, p. 23): after such study, few should lack it. With this basis one would naturally go on to observe more critically the devices encountered in reading, and, if gifted, to devise for oneself new patterns. It is essentially a constructive, as opposed to a corrective, method of teaching composition, breaking away from the widespread usage of criticizing whatever faults or virtues the student stumbles on. Here he is given a definite task, in which he can hardly fail; and by mastery step by step of methods of development, coherence, emphasis, connotation, etc. is led to reasonable taste and skill. (See Leaflet of "Suggestions to Teachers"). Dissatisfaction with prevalent methods is shown by those who seek to teach composition by the cultivation of ideas: only, the ideas chosen are astray from the subject, whereas here the student is thinking intently on what constitutes excellence in writing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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