Expository Writing

by Mervin James Curl

[INDEX]

• Ability of the critic to analyze, [192]-[194].
• Adaptation of treatment to subject, [6].
• Addison, Joseph, [233]-[236].
• Aids in gaining clearness in Mechanisms, Processes, and Organizations, [169]-[172].
• Aids in gaining interest in Mechanisms, Processes, and Organizations, [172]-[175].
• Aids in solving the problem in Expository Biography, [261]-[265].
• Amiel, Frederic, [277].
• Amount of expository writing, [2].
• Analysis, [8], [113]-[143];
  • definition of, [113];
  • enumeration as one kind of informal analysis, [129];
  • equation as one kind of informal analysis, [130];
  • formal analysis, [118];
  • informal analysis, [129]-[137];
  • kinds of analysis, the two, [115]-[118];
  • kinds of informal analysis, [129]-[137];
  • object of informal analysis, [124];
  • the principles of analysis, [138]-[143];
  • relationship as a form of informal analysis, [131];
  • statement of a problem as a form of informal analysis, [136];
  • statement of significance as a form of informal analysis, [130];
  • the two virtues of analysis, [114].
• Analyzing the character in Expository Biography, [270]-[275].
• Antin, Mary, [189].
• Appreciative method of criticism, [209]-[215].
• Aumonier, Stacy, [29].
• Bagehot, Walter, [229].
• Balfour, Arthur James, [273].
• Barrie, Sir J. M., [241], [263].
• Beethoven, Ludwig van, [278].
• Belloc, Hilaire, [239], [244].
• Biography, Expository, [257]-[296];
  • aid in solving the problem of, [261]-[265];
  • analyzing the character of the hero, [270]-[275];
  • beliefs of the hero, [273];
  • choice of events in hero's life for, [276]-[277];
  • defining the hero's character, [266]-[270];
  • deeds of the hero, [274];
  • events in hero's life, use of, [275]-[280];
  • friends of the hero, [274];
  • heredity of the hero, [270]-[272];
  • interests of the hero, [272];
  • kinds of, [257];
  • lesson, danger of making one, [282];
  • life problem of the hero, [258]-[260];
  • object of expository biography, [258];
  • problem, the chief, of expository biography, [258]-[261];
  • problem of telling the truth, [280]-[281];
  • process of solving the problem, [266]-[274];
  • relation of events to personality, [277]-[278];
  • relation of hero to society and times, [278]-[280];
  • rhetorical form of expository biography, [282]-[285];
  • rhetorical value of events, [280].
• B. L. T., [102].
• Boswell, James, [267], [279], [281].
• Bradford, Gamaliel, [264], [267], [281].
• Breadth of interest in writer of Informal Essays, [233]-[234].
• Brooke, Rupert, [234].
• Brooks, Sidney, [43].
• Brown, John, [238], [241].
• Browne, Sir Thomas, [262].
• Bullard, F. Lauriston, [78].
• Burdick, Francis M., [76], [105].
• Burroughs, John, [40], [41], [47], [224], [238], [247].
• Burton, Richard, [243].
• Butler, Samuel, [109].
• Byron, Lord, [200], [274].
• Cannon, J. G., [140].
• Carlyle, Thomas, [40], [258], [265], [272], [275], [279].
• Catalogs, use of, [301]-[302].
• Cause for stupidity in expository writing, [4], [25].
• Cause, method of showing, in definition, [97].
• Cautions about definitions, [80].
• Cavour, [266].
• Centralization, finding the root principle in mechanisms, etc., [159]-[162].
• Chesterton, Gilbert, [240], [241].
• Cicero, [12].
• Classification, [8], [117].
• Clearness:
  • aids in gaining, [169]-[172];
  • in explaining mechanisms, etc., [157], [162].
• Coleridge, Samuel T., [215].
• Comparison and contrast, method of in defining, [86].
• Controlling purpose:
  • definition of, [16];
  • emotional reaction to, [26]-[33];
  • practical use of, [39]-[47];
  • proper use of, [33]-[38];
  • source of, [16]-[26];
  • source of in reader's attitude, [22]-[25];
  • source of in subject, [16]-[18];
  • source of in writer's attitude, [18]-[22];
  • stated in one sentence, [37];
  • value, relative, of sources for, [25].
• Cooper, James F., [196].
• Corbin, John, [164].
• Corbin, T. W., [161], [181], [205].
• Cowley, [232].
• Cram, Ralph Adams, [104].
• Critic, the:
  • ability to analyze, [192]-[194];
  • common sense, [195];
  • knowledge of the general field of criticism, [194]-[195];
  • open-mindedness, [195]-[196].
• Criticism, [190]-[217];
  • ability to analyze, possessed by the critic, [192]-[194];
  • common sense of critic, [195];
  • criticism and comment, [91];
  • definition of, [190];
  • diction in, [216]-[217];
  • knowledge of general field, possessed by critic, [194]-[195];
  • methods:
  • appreciative, [209]-[215];
  • historical, [196]-[202];
  • standards, [202]-[209];
  • open-mindedness of critic, [195]-[196];
  • practical helps for writing, [215]-[217];
  • range of criticism, [191].
• Croly, Herbert, [129], [199].
• Crothers, S. M., [237], [240].
• Da Vinci, Leonardo, [273].
• Deeds of hero in Expository Biography, [274].
• Defining the character of the hero in Expository Biography, [266]-[270].
• Definition of analysis, [113];
  • of criticism, [190];
  • of informal essay, [231].
• Definition: [8], [73]-[112];
  • cautions, general, about, [80];
  • definition of, [73];
  • differentia and genus, [77];
  • difficulty in discovering genus, [74];
  • methods of defining:
  • of comparison or contrast, [86];
  • of division, [90];
  • of elimination, [95];
  • of illustration, [83];
  • of repetition, [93];
  • of showing origin, cause, and effect, [97];
  • process of definition, [74];
  • restricting the genus, [77];
  • two classes of, [78].
• Demosthenes, [12].
• De Quincey, [242].
• Dictionaries, use of, [302].
• Dilley, Arthur U., [122].
• Douglas, Stephen A., [274].
• Economy, in note-taking, [298]-[299].
• Edwards, Jonathan, [27].
• Elimination as a method in definition, [95].
• Eliot, George, [124]-[125].
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo, [1], [27], [93], [95], [98], [224], [271], [282].
• Emotions, the, and the controlling purpose, [26]-[33].
• Encyclopædias, use of, [302].
• Enumeration as a form of informal analysis, [129].
• Equation as a form of informal analysis, [130].
• Escott, T. H. S., [271].
• Essay. See [Informal Essay].
• Events in hero's life for expository biography, [275]-[280].
• Exposition:
  • amount of, [2];
  • answers questions, [1], [2];
  • causes for stupidity in writing exposition, [4], [25];
  • emotions and exposition, [27];
  • problem, the, in writing, [11];
  • success of, [12];
  • task of, [9]-[10];
  • truth of, [7].
• Formal analysis, [118].
• Franz, Robert, [276].
• Freeman, Mrs. M. E. W., [199].
• Friends of the hero in expository biography, [274].
• Gardiner, A. G., [19], [148], [149], [150].
• Garland, Hamlin, [45].
• Gissing, George, [7], [21], [84], [103], [128], [209], [214], [223], [226].
• Goethe, Johann, [270].
• Goldsmith, Oliver, [267], [284], [285].
• Gray, [270].
• Green, J. R., [28], [268].
• Greenough and Kittredge, [183].
• Hardy, Thomas, [294].
• Haweis, the Rev. Mr., [268].
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel, [126].
• Hazlitt, [195], [231], [232], [236], [238], [243].
• Henderson, W. H., [153], [230].
• Henry, Patrick, [12].
• Heredity in expository biography, [270]-[272].
• Historical method of criticism, [196]-[202].
• Holmes, O. W., [271]-[272].
• Howells, W. D., [107].
• Humor in the informal essay, [241]-[242].
• Hungerford, Edward, [69].
• Hunt, Leigh, [238].
• Husband, Joseph, [239].
• Huxley, Thomas, [44].
• Illustration as a method of definition, [83].
• Imaginative sympathy in expository biography, [261]-[265].
• Informal analysis, [123]-[138].
• [Informal Essay], [231]-[244];
  • breadth of interest in author of, [233]-[234];
  • definition of, [231];
  • humor in, [241]-[242];
  • nature as subject for, [238]-[239];
  • not too exhaustive, [242];
  • not too serious, [240]-[242];
  • not too rhetorically strict, [242]-[243];
  • people as subjects for, [237]-[238];
  • personal nature, [232]-[233];
  • range of subject, [237];
  • things as subjects for, [239]-[240].
• Interest in writing, [2];
  • aids to gain, in mechanisms, processes and organizations, [172]-[175];
  • of two kinds, [3];
  • relation to underlying thought, [8].
• Interpreting and reporting, [5].
• James, William, [4], [44], [266].
• Jefferies, Richard, [239].
• Jewett, Miss S. O., [199].
• Johnson, Dr. Samuel, [81], [233].
• Judicial criticism, here treated as criticism by standards, [202]-[209].
• Judy, A. M., [151].
• Labouchere, Henry, [9].
• Lamb, Charles, [6], [26], [232], [235], [242], [262].
• Lamb, Mary, [259].
• Lee, Robert E., [274], [277].
• Libraries:
  • catalogues of, [301]-[302];
  • dictionaries, [302];
  • encyclopædias, [302];
  • use of, [301]-[304].
• Lincoln, Abraham, [2], [16], [87], [269], [270].
• Liszt, Franz, [276].
• Lounsbury, Thomas, [205].
• Lowell, J. R., [271].
• Lucke, C. E., [98], [137], [152].
• Masefield, John, [69], [70], [71].
• Materials:
  • ordering of, [41]-[47];
  • selecting of, [39]-[41].
• Mechanisms, [157]-[175];
  • aids for gaining clearness, [169]-[172];
  • aids for gaining interest, [172]-[175];
  • cautions, [158]-[159];
  • centralization, [159]-[162];
  • expression of root principle in one sentence, [160]-[161];
  • necessity for clearness, [157]-[158];
  • orders to be followed, [164]-[168].
• Meredith, George, [241].
• Methods,
  • in criticism:
  • appreciative, [209]-[215];
  • historical, [196]-[202];
  • standards, [202]-[209];
  • in definition:
  • comparison and contrast, [86];
  • division, [90];
  • elimination, [95];
  • illustration, [83];
  • origin, cause, and effect, [97];
  • repetition, [93].
• Middleton, Richard, [240].
• More, P. E., [115], [123].
• Morley, John, [18], [105]-[106].
• Morman, J. B., [85].
• Mozart, W. A., [277].
• Notes:
  • care in taking, [300];
  • economy the chief virtue, [298]-[299];
  • methods of taking, [300];
  • space of notes, [299]-[300].
• Order of Material, [41]-[47].
• Organizations: [157]-[162]
  • (general discussion), [168]-[169];
  • aids to clearness, [169]-[172];
  • aids to interest, [172]-[175].
• Parkman, Francis, [236].
• Parr, [279].
• Partition, [8], [117].
• People as subjects for informal essays, [237]-[238].
• Pericles, [273].
• Poe, E. A., [12].
• Pollak, Gustav, [86], [93], [194], [222].
• Prelini, Charles, [170].
• Problem, statement of a, in informal analysis, [136].
• Problem of expository biography, [248]-[261].
• Processes: [157]-[162]
  • (general discussion), [162]-[164];
  • aids to gaining clearness in, [169]-[172];
  • aids to gaining interest in, [172]-[175].
• Relation of events to personality in expository biography, [277]-[278].
• Relation of hero to society and times in expository biography, [278]-[280].
• Repetition as a method in definition, [93].
• Reporting vs. interpreting, [5].
• Reynolds, Sir Joshua, [208].
• Rhetorical strictness absent in informal essay, [242]-[243].
• Rhetorical value of events in expository biography, [280].
• Royce, Josiah, [131].
• Russell, Bertrand, [90], [135], [227].
• Sainte-Beuve, [91].
• Scott, Sir Walter, [200].
• Sedgwick, H. D., [108].
• Selection of material, [39]-[41].
• Shakespeare, William, [12], [60], [81], [257].
• Sharp, Dallas Lore, [173], [174], [237], [238].
• Shaw, G. B., [85], [102], [110], [112], [117], [146], [147], [156].
• Sidney, Sir Philip, [9].
• Significance, statement of, as form of informal analysis, [130].
• Slavery to printed word, [297].
• Slicer, T. R., [277].
• Smith, Sydney, [241].
• Socrates, [263].
• Sources of the controlling purpose, [16], [26].
• Standards, criticism by, [202]-[209].
• Steele, Richard, [232].
• Stevenson, R. L., [6], [41], [45], [55], [58], [66], [237], [238], [241], [257], [259], [260], [263], [271], [274], [281].
• Strategy, the problem of, in writing, [11].
• Sympathy, imaginative, in expository biography, [261]-[265].
• Taft, Wm. H., [46].
• Talbot, F. A., [165], [168].
• Taylor, Bert Lester, [102].
• Tennyson, Alfred, [26], [274].
• Thackeray, Wm. M., [258], [284].
• Truth, as related to interest, [7]-[8].
• Unification, [13]-[14].
• Warner, C. D., [238], [239].
• Warner, Frances L., [249].
• Webster, Daniel, [173].
• Weston, E. M., [116], [220].
• Whibley, Charles, [266], [269], [283].
• Whistler, [212].
• Wilson, Woodrow, [12], [176].
• Wister, Owen, [89].

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Page [203], "froward" changed to "forward". (... and my trivial story of his humoring a forward child weighs but as a feather in the recorded scale of his benevolence.)