Prev | Current Page 478 | Next

"A work on english grammar and composition"


3. What Does a Proper Care for One's Health Demand?
* * * * *
LESSON 163.
ANALYSIS OF SUBJECTS.
+Direction+.--_Prepare the framework of a theme on each of these
subjects_:--
1. A Visit to the Moon.
2. Reasons why one Should Not Smoke,
3. What Does a Proper Observance of Sunday Require of One?
* * * * *
LESSON 164.
ANALYSIS OF SUBJECTS.
+Direction+.--_Prepare the framework of a theme on each of these
subjects_:--
1. The Gulf Stream.
2. A Descent into a Whirlpool.
3. What are Books Good for?
* * * * *
LESSON 165.
HOW TO WRITE A THEME.
+I. Choose a Subject+.--Choose your subject long before you are to write.
Avoid a full, round term like _Patriotism_ or _Duty_; take a fragment of
it; as, _How can a Boy be Patriotic?_ or _Duties which we Schoolmates owe
Each Other_. The subject should be on your level, should be interesting and
suggestive to you, and should instantly start in your mind many trains of
thought.
+II. Accumulate the Material+.--Begin to think about your subject. Turn it
over in your mind in leisure moments, and, as thoughts flash upon you, jot
them down in your blank-book. If any of these seem broad enough for the
main points, or heads, indicate this.


Pages:
466 467 468 469 470 471 472 473 474 475 476 477 478 479 480 481 482 483 484 485 486 487 488 489 490