PREFACE TO CRITICAL READING :: 1946 HB

• Hardcover book by RICHARD D. ALTICK
• Over 320 pages
• Copyright, 1946, by HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY, INC.

According to the beginning section entitled To The Teacher:

" THIS BOOK is designed to help teachers of English perform what is, in a very true sense, their highest social function - that of providing our democratic society with a fair number of citizens who will use their dispassionate intelligence in weighing and acting upon the appeals which are directed at them from every source of social and political pressure. Its primary objective is to teach those simple habits of critical reading and thinking which are indispensable to every intelligent man and woman in his or her constant role as a member of political and economic society. "

Contents includes:

" Chapter One DENOTATION AND CONNOTATION

Chapter Two DICTION

Chapter Three LOGIC

Chapter Four SENTENCES AND PARAGRAPHS

Chapter Five TONE

Chapter Six ON READING NEWSPAPERS

APPENDIX

INDEX "

This book is in good condition for its age and has some normal edgewear to the cover.
No torn or ripped pages.
The side edges of the pages look a little dirty from the side view.
There is some writing on the front cover, several pages with some pencil underlining and writing, and the previous owner's name was written and crossed out with marker on the inside front cover.

plus the shipping cost & handling fee listed below:

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