Excerpt from Elementary English Composition It is now agreed that composition, even as a school study, is, in essence, not correctional and not analytic, but creative. Even in the most rudimentary stages, composition is a creative process - the seeking after the form and expression Of thought. And it is a developing art, passing through many stages, from the making of the simple sentence to the creation Of the finest oration or poem. It has become clear, too, that composition is self expression. It is not a book study ...
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Excerpt from Elementary English Composition It is now agreed that composition, even as a school study, is, in essence, not correctional and not analytic, but creative. Even in the most rudimentary stages, composition is a creative process - the seeking after the form and expression Of thought. And it is a developing art, passing through many stages, from the making of the simple sentence to the creation Of the finest oration or poem. It has become clear, too, that composition is self expression. It is not a book study merely. It does not, rightly, deal with things remote from the pupil's thought and experience, but is the expression of that thought and experience. It must reflect his actual mental life. It must turn to account his powers of Observation and reflection and imagination, and employ the material Offered by his own life, his home scenes and experiences, the daily panorama of nature, the daily spectacle of human life on farm, in village, and in city. Tennyson points significantly to his own youthful training in expression I was in the habit of chronicling in four or five words or more whatever might strike me as picturesque in nature. Compo sition, then, must bring the mind and life of the pupil into close relation with his efforts at expression; it must enable him to express himself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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