Themes and Research Papers [antikvár]

Preface This booklet is the result of our conviction that students must learn fundamentals before going on to the com- plexities of a subject. In the pages that follow we have attempted to reduce the vast subject of exposition to a size convenient for beginning writers. It can be objected that we have left much unsaid, or that there are some things we should not have said at all. But students have to begin somewhere. At this stage they need positive advice, not learned discussions. Although it has been necessary for us to make categorical statements about the form and con- tent of expository papers, we have seriously weighed the alternatives open to us and consistently chosen the one that seemed to us traditional. We certainly agree that there are occasions when tradition can or should be violated, but we feel that the student who consciously violates a rule when he has to is better off than the one who does so unconsciously. Hence this small volume. We wish to acknowledge here our gratitude to Miss Joan Paulson and Mr. Eugene Gaer who have willingly allowed us to use, edit, and criticize the papers on Thoreau and Marx which they wrote for the Freshman Studies course at Lawrence last year. Lawrence College B.R.S. H.K.T.