Excerpt from Literary Composition: A Practicable Method of Learning to Write Effectively
Most texts on rhetoric or composition are difficult for the individual home student to follow for the reason that the criticisms of the teacher are indispensable to satisfactory progress.
As the whole plan and purpose of this book is to arrange a series of exercises which will automatically educate the intuitions of the student, and make the student his own critic, the course of study here outlined needs only to be followed persistently to the end in order to give appreciable results. Any one who has the perseverance to plow through the large amount of work outlined, applying to his work the "System for Self-Criticism," and as faithfully rewriting his efforts as if a teacher required him to do so, will undoubtedly secure excellent results in the way of an improved style.
Here is a really practical development of the method by which Franklin taught himself to write, carried out very closely on the lines he describes in his autobiography.
The selections for imitation are relatively simple.
Half the exercises give practice in talking, and half in writing what has first been talked.
Original letters, essays, or stories are in most cases to be based on personal experiences of the student, though closely parallel to the masterpieces so as to afford opportunity for comparison point by point with that which is really good.
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