Provides 72 essays of varied themes that range from the 16th century to the 20th century. Based on the essayistic tradition, the essays cover a wide range of topics, including personal identity, family relationships, character types, the animal kingdom, town and country, education, mortality, the national pastime, language, social and political issues, freedom of opinion, the sexes, and the art of the essay. For courses on advanced composition, freshman composition, and essay as literature.

The Essay: Old and New

Literature & Fiction

Corbett, Edward P.J.

Finkle, Sheryl L.

Essays & Correspondence

Pearson

The Writing Teacher's Sourcebook

Tate, Gary

Oxford University Press

The value of classical rhetoric for both English composition and speech courses has become increasingly clear in recent years. This volume is based on the premise that the system of Aristotle, Cicero, and Quintilian, which taught the student how to find something to say, how to select and organize material, and how to phrase it in the best possible manner, is still useful and effective--more detailed in coverage and more positive in approach than any of the courses of study that replaced it. Now in its Third Edition, this highly successful textbook continues to present a coherent and realistic approach to the teaching of writing by adapting the principles of classical rhetoric and by using precepts, imitation, and constant practice as its core. The work stresses argumentative discourse, but most of its principles apply equally well to exposition, description, and narration. The new third edition of this classic text has been completely brought up to date, using inclusive language throughout and giving greater representation to women writers; offering shorter, timelier selections; and providing a useful phonetic guide to tropes and figures derived from Greek and Latin words. Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student will be an invaluable resource for courses in composition, speech, rhetoric, and linguistics.

Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student

Widely used in advanced composition and writing courses, Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student discusses the three vital components of classical rhetoric--argument, arrangement, and style--bringing these elements to life and demonstrating their effective use in yesterday's and today's writing. Presenting its subject in five parts, the text provides grounding in the elements and applications of classical rhetoric; the strategies and tactics of argumentation; the effective presentation and organization of discourses; the development of power, grace, and felicity in expression; and the history of rhetorical principles. Numerous examples of classic and contemporary rhetoric, from paragraphs to complete essays, appear throughout the book, many followed by detailed analyses. The fourth edition of Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student features a new section on the Progymnasmata (classical composition exercises), a new analysis of a color advertisement in the Introduction, an updated survey of the history of rhetoric, and an updated section on "External Aids to Invention."

Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student, 4th Edition

Connors, Robert J.

Developed from the very popular fourth chapter of the authors' Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student, 4th ed., Style and Statement is a concise introduction to the components of effective style as they were first defined by classical rhetoricians and as they apply to writing today. An essential reference for students and all writers, it incorporates numerous lively exercises that emphasize the contemporary applications of classic styles. The book opens with an extended discussion of diction and continues with an analysis of sentence composition and Professor Corbett's famous numerical style studies, which unite the principles of diction and sentence organization. Its catalogue of figures of speech is exceptionally comprehensive and includes definitions of the classic tropes. A practical application of imitation as a means of developing style introduces the final section of the text, which consists of the analysis of selected short readings ranging from an eighteenth-century work by Hugh Blair to John F. Kennedy's inaugural address.

Style and Statement

The Little English Handbook: Choices And Conventions

This pocket-sized, inexpensive, elegant little handbook addresses the most prevalent writing problems people face. Clear and easy to understand, The Little English Handbook will help you solve any grammar, style, punctuation or research problem you may have.

The Little English Handbook: Choices and Conventions

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Addison-Wesley

The Little English Handbook: Choices and Conventions/With Mla Update

Longman Pub. Group

Written by revered composition theorist Edward P.J. Corbett with co-author Sheryl Finkle, this pocket-sized, inexpensive, elegant little handbook addresses the most prevalent writing problems students face. Featuring artful prose explanations on matters of grammar, style, paragraphing, punctuation, and mechanics, the text also serves as a guide to the conventions of research writing and documentation providing coverage of online sources and ACW documentation style for citing those sources as well as coverage of MLA, APA, CBE and CMS documentation systems.

Finlke, Sheryl L.

This pocket-sized, inexpensive, elegant little handbook addresses the most prevalent writing problems people face. Clear and easy to understand, The Little English Handbook will help you solve any grammar, style, punctuation or research problem you may have.

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Longman

Foreign Language Study & Reference

John Wiley&Sons

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Books by Corbett, Edward P.J.

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The Essay: Old and New

The Writing Teacher's Sourcebook

Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student

Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student, 4th Edition

Style and Statement

The Little English Handbook: Choices and Conventions

The Little English Handbook: Choices and Conventions/With Mla Update

The Little English Handbook: Choices and Conventions/With Mla Update

The Little English Handbook: Choices And Conventions

The Little English Handbook: Choices and Conventions