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How to Write Clearly: Rules and Exercises on English Composition

Abbott's classic manual will show you how to quickly improve your writing, whatever your skill level.  An essential resource for writers and students, and anyone who wants to communicate more clearly.

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The Art of Writing and Speaking the English Language

The classic manual on writing and speaking - learn how to communicate clearly and effectively and discover how you may be holding yourself back.

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The Grammar of English Grammars

With An Introduction Historical And Critical;The Whole Methodically Arranged;With Forms Of Correcting And Of Parsing, Improprieties For Correction, Examples For Parsing, Questions For Examination, Exercises For Writing, Observations For The Advanced Student,...

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Must We Burn De Sade?

The famous essay that really kicked off the Marquis' restoration. First translated in '53. With numerous selections from his writings.

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Greek In A Nut Shell

From the PREFACE: 'This little Manual was originally prepared for the NORMAL CLASS, at the request of the editor of that Journal, and was at the same time expected to form an instruction book at the Sunday-School Assembly annually held at Chautauqua....

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How To Speak and Write Correctly

In the preparation of this little work the writer has kept one end in view, viz.: To make it serviceable for those for whom it is intended, that is, for those who have neither the time nor the opportunity, the learning nor the inclination, to peruse elaborate...

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If You Don't Write Fiction

Everyone with an interest in writing will benefit from this book. You will get immediate results because the author writes clearly and the ideas feel so natural. Discover how easy it is to tap your innate ability to create and generate writing filled...

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Dialogues in French and English

Useful book full of practical dialogues. The earlier bibliographers gave to the book the entirely inappropriate title of ‘Instructions for Travellers.’ Mr. Blades is nearer the mark in calling it ‘A Vocabulary in French and English,’ but, as it...

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Punctuation

From the PREFACE: 'This book makes no pretense at originality. The author has studied and compared a considerable number of works by the best authorities on the subject and has endeavored to adapt the best of their contents to the use of printers apprentices.Every...

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Business English Course

Regardless of whether language was a special gift from the gods, a natural evolutionary acquisition, or an ingenious, conscious human invention made at some specific moment in our species' distant past, the fact remains that language does exist. The most...

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LITERATURE AND LITERARY ELEMENTS

Generally the word ‘Literature’ is assumed to be something very difficult by a layman but when he or she begins to read something seriously, of course with pleasure, he realizes that it is as simple as anything. The big words often baffle him and...

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Language and Linguistics

Language and Linguistics The Origin of Language What is Language? Speech is Physical and Mental Learning Language Phonology and Grammar Signs and Symbols System Language Universals Creativity Ambiguity Competence and Performance Underlying and Surface...

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The Craft of Fiction

from the introductory: To grasp the shadowy and fantasmal form of a book, to hold it fast, to turn it over and survey it at leisure—that is the effort of a critic of books, and it is perpetually defeated. Nothing, no power, will keep a book steady and...

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On the Study of Words

There are few who would not readily acknowledge that mainly in worthy books are preserved and hoarded the treasures of wisdom and knowledge which the world has accumulated; and that chiefly by aid of books they are handed down from one generation to another....

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CAPITALS (A PRIMER of INFORMATION ABOUT CAPITALIZATION) & DIVISI

From the 'CAPITALS' INTRODUCTION: A capital letter is a letter of formal shape. Capitals were originally derived from the stiff and angular letters used in formal inscriptions. Originally all writing was done in capitals. Later the scribes devised less...

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Literary Taste - How To Form It (With Detailed Instructions For

Contents: Chapter I The AimChapter II Your Particular CaseChapter III Why A Classic Is A ClassicChapter IV Where To BeginChapter V How To Read A ClassicChapter VI The Question Of StyleChapter VII Wrestling With An AuthorChapter...

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NEW WORD-ANALYSIS: OR, SCHOOL ETYMOLOGY OF ENGLISH DERIVATIVE WO

From the PREFACE: The present text-book is a new-modeling and rewriting of Swinton's Word-Analysis, first published in 1871. It has grown out of a large amount of testimony to the effect that the older book, while valuable as a manual of methods, in the...

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Slips of Speech - A helpful book for everyone who aspires to cor

From the INTRODUCTION: omer, in all probability, knew no rules of rhetoric, and was not tortured with the consideration of grammatical construction, and yet his verse will endure through time. If everybody possessed the genius of Homer, rules and cautions...

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