9. The principle of the steel construction of sky scrapers.
14. The Roman Catholic Church, or any other church.
17. The International Workers of the World.
22. How to detect the tricks of fakirs at county fairs.
23. How to make a symmetrical load of hay.
28. How to make a successful iron casting.
29. How to plan a railroad terminal yard.
1. In view of the fact that the text suggests avoidance of a beginning list of parts of a machine, what is your opinion of the list in this selection? Could the explanation have been made as well without this list? Better?
2. Would this explanation be as well done if the author began with hearing the machine at a distance, and then approached, described the appearance of the machine, and finally stated its principle? Does the method, the order, have any really close connection with the value of the explanation?
V. Write themes on the following subjects, bearing in mind that the _facts_ of the subject remain constant even though the readers may vitally differ and therefore need widely varying treatments.
a. For a business man who wishes to reduce expenses in his office.
b. For a woman who has worked painfully at figures in an office for thirty years and regards the process of "figuring" as sacred.
c. For a person who says, "I just never could get figures straight anyway!"
a. For a person who complains that people haven't brains enough to read his "perfectly plain handwriting."
b. For a person who thinks that the clicking sound of the machine will be terribly disagreeable.
c. For an old gentleman who for years clung to the use of a quill, and has only within a few years brought himself to use a fountain pen.
3. Fruit farming (limited to one kind of fruit).
a. For a city man of not too robust health but of considerable wealth who wishes a reasonably quiet pleasant existence.
b. For a young man who has just inherited 150 acres of fine apple land but is half inclined toward becoming a bank clerk.
c. For a person who has read Burroughs and thinks that the poetic appeal of fruit trees and birds must be delightful.
a. For a college student who wishes to make much money.
b. For a person who always buys books from canvassers and whom you wish to enlighten as to their methods.