Stratton D. Brooks’s Composition-Rhetoric is a classroom textbook combining the study of grammar, style, and the principles of effective writing. It guides students through narration, description, exposition, and argument, with rules and exercises for building clear, well-organized prose.
A standard of American schools in its era, the book reflects the long tradition of teaching rhetoric and composition together. It is a useful survey of the conventions that shaped formal English writing instruction in the early twentieth century. This edition is a clean, public-domain text prepared for comfortable reading. Download the free EPUB of this classic composition and rhetoric text.