The Principles of Argumentation. E-book. Formato PDF George Pierce Baker   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

The principles set forth in this book, the queries answered, I have so often talked over with the assistants who, at Harvard and Wellesley, have aided me in my work, that I feel the results here given are as much theirs as mine. I owe so much in the past, also, to their enthu siasm and their intelligent devotion to their work, that I cannot refrain from recognizing my indebtedness. For valuable suggestions while this book has been going through the press and for reading of the proofs I wish in particular to thank assistant-professor S. C. Hart of Wellesley College, and Mr. F. G. Caffey, of Montgomery, Alabama. For the classification of definitions used on pp. 54 — 59 I am indebted to Professor Genung in his Practical Elm/tents of R/zetorz'c.

The Principles of Argumentation: Revised and Augmented. E-book. Formato PDF George Pierce Baker   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

It is a pity that in many instances study of argument is regarded only as a stepping-stone to successful debating, the most rigid of argumentative forms. In reality it is a training, often much needed among college students, in habits of accurate thinking, fair-mindedness, and thorough ness. If this new edition helps to instruction in which argument is regarded from the start by teacher and pupil as above all a means to accurate, thorough, formulated thinking, enjoyable to the thinker, presented in a well phrased and individual style, the chief desire of the authors in their revision will be fulfilled.

Dramatic Technique. E-book. Formato PDF George Pierce Baker   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

The contents of this book were originally brought together from notes for the classroom as eight lectures delivered be fore the Lowell Institute, Boston, in the winter of 1913. They were carefully reworked for later lectures before audiences in Brooklyn and Philadelphia. Indeed, both in and out of the classroom they have been slowly revised in the intervening five years. Detailed consideration Of the one-act play has been reserved for later Special treatment. Otherwise the book attempts to treat helpfully the many problems which the would-be dramatist must face in learning the funda mentals of a very difficult but fascinating art.