Essays in Exposition (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Essays in Exposition The editors of this book realize that efficient teaching of the art of discourse consists in establishing habits of orderly and effective speaking and writing. All instruction in this art must be bent continuously toward fostering these habits - the product of patient practice. With this general principle in view the immediate aims of the present book may be indicated as follows: 1. A necessary preliminary to orderly speaking and writing is a knowledge of what constitutes order. But this knowledge should be as compact and categorical as feasible, otherwise the time that should be given to practice and to habit-making will be consumed in studying page after page of talk about talking, and writing about writing. An attempt has been made, therefore, to give briefly such an account of the categories of expository thought and thought relations as will enable the student completely to analyze a given section of exposition into its component parts and to show the interrelation of the parts. By understanding these relations the student acquires the desired knowledge of orderly construction, for always the understanding of the interrelation of the parts of a whole amounts to knowledge of construction. Not by learning general rules for order, but by analyzing and practicing the relations that constitute order, is proficiency in orderly thought to be won. The editors believe that a severe and protracted drill in this sort of analysis is much needed by students at the present time. Our students do not know how to get another's thought exactly, how to restate it exactly, how to think with exactness themselves. Poor thought, intuitive and blundering thought, impressionistic assertion, vague conclusions from vaguer premises - these belong to the habits of thought of our students. They belong, also, to the habits of present-day thought in general. 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.