A 1. Paragraphs to be criticised an 2. General subjects to be narrow 3. Topic-sentences to be develop 4. Topic-sentences to be develop 5. Topic-sentences to be develop 6. Topic-sentences to be develop 7. Topic-sentences to be develop 8. Topic-sentences to be develop 9. Topic-sentences to be develop 10. Topic-sentences to be develop 11. Table of typical paragraph st 12. Outlines for paragraph-writin 13. Paragraphs for analysis by th B. A selected list of typical paragra C1(a) Ten min to 3 (a). List of references to selections for 3 (b). List of references to selections for D 1. Typical introductory and concluding pa 2. Typical transitional and directive parag (b). A list of references to essays, speeche F. Suggestions of exercises in reporting, edit G 1. A general reference list to bibliographies 2. A classified list of essay-subjects...... 3. A miscellaneous list of essay-subjects. 4. General rules for capitals and punctuati (b) CLASSES OF PARAGRA A paragraph may be studied as consti paragraphs a complete essay, or, it may itself as a separate and complete composit (1) The Related Paragrap Paragraphs of the first class we will graphs since they are closely related to e the essay of which they are the constituer sive related paragraphs, as portions of a la in turn the topics into which, according to of the production, the subject naturally d the subject of the essay requires but a brie the plan includes but two or three main h paragraph may suffice for each. Of a more e tion, involving carefully planned divisions in the outline, each sub-topic may require graph for its adequate treatment. (2) The Isolated Paragraph A large class of subjects, however, adm treatment in single paragraphs. Such are nature; for example, incidents, brief desc sons and of places, terse comments upon and short discussions on isolated phases o social questions. A single paragraph, which an adequate treatment of any subject or of of any subject, we will call an isolated parag - PARAGRAPHS. das constituting with other or, it may be regarded by e composition in miniature. 1 Paragraph. we will call related paralated to each other and to Succesconstituent units. ons of a larger whole, treat ording to the general plan aturally divides itself. If but a brief treatment and ee main headings, a single f a more extensive producdivisions and subdivisions y require a separate para The quotation from Hamerto related paragraphs, treating two The topic in the outline treated b graphs is, "Society is frivolous a by the second is, "But society con not frivolous." These paragraph in thought, that each is necessar represents a distinct phase of the The following are illustrations In these cases the treatment is adequate in a single paragraph: Not many years ago two women in th one in New York, became successful s excessive rates of interest on money dej offered not the slightest security, and th the desire for inordinate returns on island of Malta have done still bette receive deposits and pay a shilling a w about two hundred and sixty per cen valuables deposited in her hands, of which, for a time, she was able to pay was so immediately successful that oth result of setting in motion a mania, the ing to be possessed of a desire to put d women, until the amount in their kee dollars. For a time all went well, but and the bubble burst, leaving not a rack tickets. The singular thing about this everybody knew the women to be living in squalor, and yet nobody seemed to their keeping. Evidently the desire to confined to the American genus. - Chr Lowell's legacy as a poet is great, bu as a patriot. The true patriot does no suffer for it, simply because he happ would be the infatuation of the egotist; his duty and pleasure |