Evidence, 125-128 Exposition, nature of, 53; typi- cal moods of, 58; defining and classifying, 58; descrip- tive and illustrative, 70; criti- cal, 74 Expressiveness, 186
Fallacies, 132
False cause, The, 134 Force, 49
Franklin, Benjamin, 244, 256
Garden Magazine, The, 90
Harte, Bret, 15 Hasty generalization, 134-135 Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 202,206, 210, 238, 287 Hazlitt, William, 106 Hearn, Lafcadio, 80, 198, 204, 211
Hughes, Thomas, 253 Huxley, T. H., 63, 65, 70, 127 Hypothesis, 152, 153
Imitation, 1, 2, 3
Incoherence in the sentence, 36-38
Individuality in writing, 5 Inductive reasoning, 144, 151, 152
Intelligibility, 47 Invention, 4
Irving, Washington, 14, 215, 218, 269
Issues, defining the, 119-120
Models, use of, 3
Moffatt, Cleveland, 25 Movement, in description, 202, 204, 206; in narration, 250- 251
Narration, nature of, 232-234; elements of, 234
Narrowing the subject, 7-8 Nation, The, 162
Newman, J. H., 25, 32, 65, 77, 117
Observation, cultivating habits of, 6; as a basis of induction, 152
Oppenheim, James, 108 Order of events, 248-250 Outline, The, in exposition, 54- 55
Outlook, The, 157, 165
Paragraph, The, function of, 12-13; typical scheme of, 13; the, topic of, 15; developing the topic of, 16-22; unity in, 22; coherence in, 24; em- phatic conclusion in, 24 Parkman, Francis, 74, 262 Periodic sentence, The, 43 Persuasion, 113-116 Phrasing, 187-188
Planning the composition, 6-9 Plot, 244, 247, 248 Poe, E. A., 235
Point of view, 199-202, 209 Popular Science Monthly, The, 98
Premises, establishment of the,
Proof, 125-126
Proposition, The, 117-118 Punctuation, 39
Reasoning, methods of, 144 Reductio ad absurdum, 135 Refutation, 132
Resemblance, The argument from, 130
Roget, P. M., 48
Roosevelt, Theodore, 28 Ruskin, John, 189, 216
Scott, Sir Walter, 68 Scribner's Magazine, 22 Sentence, The, unity in, 28-29; coherence in, 35; emphasis in, 41; periodic type of, 43 Setting, 234-235 Shaler, N. S., 96
Sign, The argument from, 129 Slang, 45-46
Sources of material, 4 Stevenson, R. L., 2, 33, 43, 192, 195, 197, 200, 208, 221, 237, 239
Style, 43, 44, 186 Suspense in narration, 251 Syllogism, The, 144-146
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