Writing and Rewriting

About this eBook

Author

Maulsby, William S. (William Shipman), 1890-1976

Title

Writing and rewriting

Original Publication

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1923.

Credits

Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

PE: Language and Literatures: English

Subject

English language -- Rhetoric

Category

Text

eBook-No.

75117

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75117

Release Date

January 15, 2025

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.Untitled
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.TO INSTRUCTORS
5. 5.INDEX TO ADMONITIONS
6. 6.WRITING AND REWRITING — Chapter I WHY LEARN TO WRITE
7. 7.Chapter II HOW TO WRITE
8. 8.Chapter III IDEAS FOR COMPOSITIONS
9. 9.Chapter IV THE WHOLE COMPOSITION — Preliminaries
10. 10.Chapter V THE PARAGRAPH
11. 11.Chapter VI GRAMMAR — What Grammar Is — Sentences — The Parts of a Sentence—Subject and Predicate — Subjects — Predicates — Structural Parts of the Predicate—Objects — Copulas and Complements — Modifiers — Prepositional Phrases — Subordinate Clauses — Noun Clauses — Adjective Clauses — Adverb Clauses — Participles — Infinitives — Conjunctions — Structure of Sentences — Compound Sentences — Complex Sentences — Absolute Elements — Parenthetical Elements — Flexibility of the Sentence Elements — Inflections — Noun Declension — Pronoun Declension — Adjective Declension — Verb Conjugation — Conjugation of Be
12. 12.Chapter VII SENTENCE CORRECTNESS — PRACTICE
13. 13.Chapter VIII SENTENCE CLEARNESS — PRACTICE
14. 14.Chapter IX SENTENCE VIGOR — PRACTICE
15. 15.Chapter X WORDS
16. 16.Chapter XI SPELLING — RULES
17. 17.Chapter XII PUNCTUATION
18. 18.Chapter XIII MECHANICS — Manuscript — Underscoring — Footnotes — Abbreviations — Capitals — Figures — Letters

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