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How to Write Clearly; Rules and Exercises on English Composition

By Edwin Abbott Abbott

2018-10-31 00:20:03

Almost every English boy can be taught to write clearly, so far at least as clearness depends upon the arrangement of words. Force, elegance, and variety of style are more difficult to teach, and far more difficult to learn; but clear writing can be ... Read more
Almost every English boy can be taught to write clearly, so far at least as clearness depends upon the arrangement of words. Force, elegance, and variety of style are more difficult to teach, and far more difficult to learn; but clear writing can be reduced to rules. "Mr. Abbott's little book is one of the best manuals ever published; helpful to teachers as well as pupils, and a 'miracle' of condensation. There should be at least one copy of it in every family's library." -Christian Register "The careful study of this little book will prove helpful even to practiced writers, who, notwithstanding that they know better, are liable to acquire bad habits, that are continued until they are pointedly reminded of their carelessness." -Advertiser Less

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File size104.794 KB
Print pages152
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date2011-08-18
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1986954709
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Edwin Abbott Abbott
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Edwin Abbott Abbott FBA (20 December 1838 – 12 October 1926) was an English schoolmaster and theologian, best known as the author of the novella Flatland (1884). Edwin Abbott Abbott was the eldest s...

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