"Topics Suitable for Composition" proposed by Thomas E. Hill, Hill's Manual of Social and Business Forms:
- The Bachelor's Home.
- Discoveries of Galileo.
- People whom we Meet.
- Pleasures of Suburban Life.
- Love Conquers Selfishness.
- Things in a Country Store.
- The Books we Ought to Read.
- A Bar-Tender's Fearful Dream.
- Home Amusements Considered.
- My Garden, and What was In It.
- Going to Visit Mother Next Week.
- A Drunkard's Fate.
- Beauty at Seventy-Five.
- Adventures in a Snow-storm.
- Description of a Spelling-Bee.
Need to produce some winning prose on a deadline? Try one of these topics, or mix and match. Discoveries of Galileo in a Country Store? A Drunkard's Suburban Life? I'd read that.
I hope a lot of English teachers are printing this out for days when they're just not feeling it.
ReplyDeleteA Drunkard's Adventure in My Garden. by Morticia Addams.
ReplyDeleteGoing to Visit Mother Next Week: A Drunkard's Fate - now that could be a best selling novel.
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