Excerpt from The Junior Highway to English: A Text Book for the Seventh and Eight Years Oral Composition. It is very easy to manufacture pages of oral projects which purport to be constructive and which look perfectly charming; it is difficult to select such topics and to present them in such a way as will insure a response from fiesh-and-blood pupils and will result in well constructed talks before a class. It is easy to provide the motions for using up a recitation period, but hard to compel young people to work with their intellects for the careful composing of thoughts into an orderly whole. We have aimed to present essentials, to insist upon elements, to enforce by repetition, to present a few simple means for securing tangible results. We hope that our treatment of Oral Composition will stimulate effort by its con creteness. For one illustration, we have shown picturesquely the and and so habits, which sometimes dominate even the oral efforts of university instructors. For another illustration, we have made oral compositions permanent by stenographic records, so that they may be subjected to the same kind of searching examination that written compositions receive; for we know that such specific study causes progress. Throughout our treatment we have aimed at gradual and definite improve ment in the pupil's confidence, coherence, and effectiveness. Written Composition. The subjects for written composi tion, like those for oral, are very simple - prevailingly narration and explanation. We hope that we have insured constant attention to structure, to the contrivance of episodes and facts to an effective conclusion. 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, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.