_ About which of the following subjects do you now possess a sufficient
knowledge to enable you to write a paragraph? In which of them are you
interested? Which would you need to "read up" about?
1. Golf.
2. Examinations.
3. Warships.
4. Wireless telegraphy.
5. Radium.
6. Tennis.
7. Automobiles.
8. Picnics.
9. Printing.
10. Bees.
11. Birds.
12. Pyrography.
13. Photography.
14. Beavers.
15. Making calls.
16. Stamp collecting.
17. The manufacture of tacks.
18. The manufacture of cotton.
19. The smelting of zinc.
20. The silver-plating process.
_B._ Make a list of thirty things about which you know something.
_C._ Bring to class a list of five subjects in which you are interested.
_D._ Make a list of five subjects about which you now possess a sufficient
knowledge to enable you to write a paragraph.
+Theme XXXI.+--_Write a short theme: Select a suitable subject from the
lists in the preceding exercise._
(What method or methods of paragraph development have you used? Have your
paragraphs unity of thought?)
+57. Subject Adapted to Reader.+--We may be interested in a subject and
possess sufficient knowledge to enable us to treat it successfully, but it
may still be unsuitable because it is not adapted to the reader. Some
knowledge of a subject and some interest in it are quite as necessary on
the part of the reader as on that of the writer, though in the beginning
this knowledge and interest may be meager.
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