To the Instructor
This book is frankly utilitarian. It begins with sentence analysis and stresses
the basic principles of the e/ear English sentence. It keeps grammatical terms
to a minimum, introducing only those principles most useful in writing.
Arrangement The materials are arranged under numbers i to 31-omitting
8, which is covered in the preface to the student-to parallel the first thirty-one
sections of the Harbrace College Handbook, Seventh Edition. But these mate-
rials may be used to supplement any handbook, or they may be used inde-
pendently. The explanatory pages preceding each section enable the book to
stand on its own. The order in which the materials should be studied, as well
as the speed with which they should be COvered, will naturally be detenlained
by the instructor in the light of the first written work or of diagnostic tests.
Tile needs of the e/ass will determine whether an assignment will consist of
the normal single exercise, of only a part of one, or-at the other extreme-of
several exercises. Some of the exercises can be clone orally in class.
Exercises The subject matter of the exercises concerns male-female relation-
ships, one of today s most frequently discussed topics. Thus the exercises give
the student a perspective oll a current subject while he is working to improve
his composition.
The Dictionary One reason for varying the order of the exercises may be the
need at the opening of the course for a review of the uses of the dictionary.
Unless each member of the class owns a good dictionary and knows how to use
it effectively for spelling, pronunciation, meanings of words, and other in-
formation, the first assigmnent may very well be Exercise 19-1, Using the
Dictionary.
Spelling Ignorance of the correct spelling of ordiimry words is now, and will
probably continue to be, the one universally accepted sign of the uneducated
man. After the student has reached senior high school or college, he cannot
count on much class tinm being devoted to spelling. Correct spelling is then
his owu responsibility. He can make steady improvement in his spelling by
listing and mastering every word he has misspelled. The list should be care-
fully kept in the blanks at the cud of tiffs book. If the list grows to considerable
length before the class comes to Section 18, the student can further improve
his spelling by analyzing his own misspellings in connection with Exercises
18-1 through 18-5. Any poor speller who carefully follows the spelling pro-
gram provided in this book will be pleased with the marked improveinent in
Iris spelling.
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