The Undergraduate Essay / / Robin Harris, Robert McDougall.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Harris, Robin,; McDougall, Robert,
• MitwirkendeR: Frame, J. D.,; Henn, Desmond E.,; Knox, R. S.,; Laird, John,; Roberts, Ffrangcon,; Smith, A. J. M.,; Winch, Peter,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1958
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (120 p.) :; figures throughout

The Undergraduate Essay sets before the student examples of writing from which he can learn what to do and why. Part I of this book consists of six complete essays of average undergraduate length. All are specimens rather than models; these essays are well-written, but they are not faultless. In Part II, the authors define and discuss the principles of sound essay writing by considering in turn the plan, paragraph structure, sentence structure, diction, punctuation, and under the title "The Conventions of Scholarship" the use of footnotes and the preparation of a bibliography. Throughout, the student is urged to study examples, and to think critically and constructively on the problems raised. It follows that The Undergraduate Essay makes no attempt to do the work either of the student of the instructor. It is a text which invites, indeed demands, the co-operative effort of both.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CONTENTS -- Part I. SPECIMEN ESSAYS -- A New Disease -- The Canadian Dilemma -- A Study of Hamlet's Soliloquies -- The Abbey's Needs -- The Universities and the State -- The Refining Fire : The Meaning and Use of Poetry -- Recent Shakespearean Criticism -- Part II PRINCIPLES AND METHODS -- Planning -- The Paragraph -- The Sentence -- Diction -- Punctuation -- The Conventions of Scholarship -- BIBLIOGRAPHY