Outlines and Summaries

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Excerpt from Outlines and Summaries: A Handbook for the Analysis of Expository Essays This little treatise is the result of an endeavor to find a fairly rigid, formal method of outlining that could actually be taught. Virtually everything that has been written on outlining refrains from venturing beyond miscellaneous mechanical directions, apparently on the assumption that the fundamental processes involved are of an intuitive nature and cannot be taught. To a mature mind, they are more or less intuitive, and it is desirable that they should be so. But they need not be intuitive, it is possible to create a method that presents definite directions at every stage of the process, a method which is easy to teach and easy to learn and a mastery of which is of great value. The author believes that in this text-book he has explained such a method. It has been used profitably, at all events, by the freshman class in the University of Wisconsin. It is expected that the book will be used in connection with Essays for College Men (Holt), or any other collection of orderly expository writing. It is not expected that it will be used in connection with rambling expository essays or the "personal essays" of Lamb and Stevenson. 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.