Précis Writing for American Schools: Methods of Abridging, Summarizing, Condensing, with Copious ExercisesSamuel Thurber Little, Brown and Company, 1924 - 150 էջ |
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... means of making readily available the best methods of précis writing - methods that not only will increase the student's power in mastering thought but will perfect his skill in making that thought clearly articulate . THE GRADUATE ...
... means of making readily available the best methods of précis writing - methods that not only will increase the student's power in mastering thought but will perfect his skill in making that thought clearly articulate . THE GRADUATE ...
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... means of training in careful reading and close thinking . It is now more than twenty years since I began the regular practice of requiring my students to write out frequently the gist of paragraphs of prose from Irving , Scott , and ...
... means of training in careful reading and close thinking . It is now more than twenty years since I began the regular practice of requiring my students to write out frequently the gist of paragraphs of prose from Irving , Scott , and ...
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... means " a pruned or cut - down statement . " In other words , it is an abstract or summary . In no sense is it equivalent to a paraphrase , or a translation , or a restatement . A précis , on the contrary , is merely the essence the ...
... means " a pruned or cut - down statement . " In other words , it is an abstract or summary . In no sense is it equivalent to a paraphrase , or a translation , or a restatement . A précis , on the contrary , is merely the essence the ...
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... means that the candidate has mastered the art of reading carefully , thinking precisely , and writing accurately . Most of the selections which have appeared since 1917 on " the Comprehensive English papers of the College Entrance ...
... means that the candidate has mastered the art of reading carefully , thinking precisely , and writing accurately . Most of the selections which have appeared since 1917 on " the Comprehensive English papers of the College Entrance ...
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... means . No notes should be taken at this first perusal . 2. Read the selection again . Now that you know in general what it is about , your task is to separate the essential points , which you are to use , from the details , which you ...
... means . No notes should be taken at this first perusal . 2. Read the selection again . Now that you know in general what it is about , your task is to separate the essential points , which you are to use , from the details , which you ...
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Էջ 146 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste...
Էջ 108 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it...
Էջ 124 - Oft, in the stilly night, Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Fond Memory brings the light Of other days around me : The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken ; The eyes that shone, Now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken ! Thus, in the stilly night, Ere slumber's chain hath bound me, Sad Memory brings the light Of other days around me.
Էջ 145 - When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd, Desiring this man's art and that man's scope...
Էջ 146 - That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west; Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.
Էջ 121 - THE mountain and the squirrel Had a quarrel ; And the former called the latter ' Little Prig '. Bun replied, ' You are doubtless very big ; But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together, To make up a year And a sphere. And I think it no disgrace 10 To occupy my place.
Էջ 142 - THE poetry of earth is never dead : When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead ; That is the Grasshopper's...
Էջ 26 - Some men with swords may reap the field, And plant fresh laurels where they kill: But their strong nerves at last must yield; They tame but one another still: Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath, When they, pale captives, creep to death. The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds; Upon Death's purple altar now See, where the victor-victim bleeds: Your heads must come To the cold tomb; Only the actions of the just Smell sweet, and blossom...
Էջ 25 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate; Death lays his icy hand on kings; Sceptre and Crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Էջ 133 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man ,' Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.