Sentences and Thinking (Classic Reprint): A Practice Book in Sentence Making - Softcover

Foerster, Norman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330210174 ISBN 13: 9781330210178

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Sentences and Thinking: A Practice Book in Sentence Making Sentences and Thinking is a textbook for the first term of Freshman English. Although it could be used as a review of fundamentals at the end of the high school course, it is designed primarily for the college freshman, who can scarcely be said to have mastered fundamentals in composition, but who nevertheless tends to regard himself as sufficiently acquainted with unity, coherence, and emphasis. It is true that the large rhetorics are also designed for the college freshman; but too often they are obsessed with the sacred need of comprehensiveness, or adhere to the language and modes of thought of the old mechanical rhetoric. The authors of this little book, instead of seeking comprehensiveness, have sought absolute essentials; instead of following tradition blindly, have worked out a new approach to Freshman rhetoric the substance being old, of course, but the mode of presentation, it is hoped, fresh and attractive because it is philosophical in a simple way. When the freshman comes to college, he is prepared to exchange his excellent high school conviction that authority is the soundest basis of belief for the equally excellent college conviction that blind faith is the one unpardonable sin and independent inquiry into the nature of things the prerequisite to all progress. We have asked the freshman, not to master rules, but to think out the reasons behind the rules in terms of the psychology of the human mind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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, how

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Excerpt from Sentences and Thinking: A Practice Book in Sentence Making

I. What the sentence is. The sentence, as the thought unit, is the starting-point for the study of composition. It should be regarded, at the outset, not as the result of a mechanical manipulation of grammatical elements, but as an organism, an organic whole, reproducing in words a thought in the mind, as a-photograph reproduces a scene. It is always our first concern to see the thought clearlyfto get it clearly focused in our minds; to this everything else is secondary, - the grammar, the parts of speech, the syntax that are so often the bugbear of the student because they are approached wrongly. In the discussion that follows, we shall look first to the thought.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1330210174
• ISBN 13: 9781330210178
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 135