A Course in Expository Writing

An excerpt from the PREFACE. The English teacher, more perhaps than any other, is consciously aiming, not to give his students information, but to make them acquire capacity, -capacity, in this case, for expressing their thought to others. But it is only by writing that the student can learn to write well, though much writing may not teach this, and one of the difficulties which an English teacher has to meet is a no less fundamental one than the difficulty of getting his students to write ...