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... Writing . There are three things that you , as a student of effective English , should do . . You should talk clearly , speak persuasively , and write forcibly . Even in conversation , you should use English in such a way as to make ...
... Writing . There are three things that you , as a student of effective English , should do . . You should talk clearly , speak persuasively , and write forcibly . Even in conversation , you should use English in such a way as to make ...
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... write so that you will say what you intend to say . You must make your writing forcible . Not to be able to do this , puts you at a disadvantage , without any good excuse on your part . The ability to speak or write is not so much a ...
... write so that you will say what you intend to say . You must make your writing forcible . Not to be able to do this , puts you at a disadvantage , without any good excuse on your part . The ability to speak or write is not so much a ...
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... writing to this test . Watch carefully your own speaking and writing in this regard . ( b ) Testing Your Own Work for Unity , Coherence , and Emphasis . Let each student write the first item below , and take at least one of the ...
... writing to this test . Watch carefully your own speaking and writing in this regard . ( b ) Testing Your Own Work for Unity , Coherence , and Emphasis . Let each student write the first item below , and take at least one of the ...
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... write a reply , asking for the position . Let one competent student criticize these replies as to what to say , how ... writer had referred to it in preparing his paper , as the builder refers to the architect's plans ? If not , it lacks ...
... write a reply , asking for the position . Let one competent student criticize these replies as to what to say , how ... writer had referred to it in preparing his paper , as the builder refers to the architect's plans ? If not , it lacks ...
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... write effectively is not a gift , but the result of painstaking practice , rightly directed . You study rhetoric for two main reasons : in order ( 1 ) to be able to talk , speak , and write effectively ; and ( 2 ) to be able to discover ...
... write effectively is not a gift , but the result of painstaking practice , rightly directed . You study rhetoric for two main reasons : in order ( 1 ) to be able to talk , speak , and write effectively ; and ( 2 ) to be able to discover ...
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adjective adjective element adverbs amphibrach Arlo Bates arrange asking BASED ON PICTURES beauty Beowulf business letter called chapter clause comma Describe editorial committee Effective English emphasis English class English Syllabus example EXERCISES BASED exposition expression fifty words gerund girl give hundred words important instructor in English interest look Lorna Doone meaning mind modified Monroe Doctrine newspaper noun number of words object orally outline Pageant pageantry paper paragraph participle person phrase play plural poetry predicate Prepare preposition pronoun proper punctuation pupils Refer reindeer relative pronoun reply Robert Burns scene selection sentence Silas Marner singular speak speaker speech spondee student style suggested syllables talk teacher Tell the story tense thing thought three hundred words tion topic train transitive verb Ulysses unity verb write written
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Page 392 - I gazed — and gazed — but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought : For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude ; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.
Page 336 - I went up to a rising ground to look farther. I went up the shore and down the shore ; but it was all one, I could see no other impression but that one. I went to it again to see if there were any more, and to observe if it might not be my fancy ; but there was no room for that, for there was exactly the very print of a foot, toes, heel, and every part of a foot ; how it came thither I knew not, nor could in the least imagine.
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Page 334 - And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him and departed, leaving him half dead.
Page 423 - THE night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.
Page 408 - BLANC, The Arve and Arveiron at thy base Rave ceaselessly; but thou, most awful Form! Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines, How silently! Around thee and above Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass: methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge! But when I look again...
Page 339 - The Pilgrim's Progress, In The Similitude Of A Dream AS I walk'd through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a Den, and I laid me down in that place to sleep; and as I slept, I dreamed a Dream.
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Page 100 - I want to take this occasion to say that the United States will never again seek one additional foot of territory by conquest. She will devote herself to showing that she knows how to make honorable and fruitful use of the territory she has, and she must regard it as one of the duties of friendship to see that from no quarter are material interests made superior to human liberty and national opportunity.