Essay Writing Rhetoric And Prosody (1913)
A recent writer is undoubtedly right in saying that in students' compositions the chief defect is 'the inability to think consecutively, to make a whole of the matter upon which they are engaged. Their observations are made disjointedly, unconnectedly—attractively you 'will, but yet not in such a way as to make one complete and permanent impression upon the mind of the reader' (Campagnac, The Teaching of Composition, Constable & Co.).
This agrees with the opinion expressed in a Board of Education circular that structure is 'the essence of composition'. 'There may be structure
without style ; but there cannot be style without structure/ Composition then 'involves the arrangement, not merely of words, but of the substance of thought which the words are meant to convey.'
I have therefore given considerable space to points of structure ; and as planning must precede writing, I have, abandoning the traditional order, dealt with the disposition of the 'whole essay and of the paragraphs before treating of sentence structure and the details of style." (Preface)
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The Principles Of English Metre (1923)
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