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Divide the word according to its formation:

know-ledge (not knowl-edge); Shake-speare (not Shakes-peare); de-scribe (not
des-cribe); atmo-sphere (not atmos-phere);

Divide "on the vowel:"

edi-ble (not ed-ible); propo-sition; ordi-nary; espe-cial; reli-gious;
oppo-nents; regu-lar; classi-fi-ca-tion (three divisions possible);
deco-rative; presi-dent;

Divide between double letters, unless they come at the end of the simple form
of the word:

Apen-nines; Cincin-nati; refer-ring; but tell-ing.

The treatment of consonants in combination is best shown from examples:

for-tune; pic-ture; presump-tuous; illus-tration; sub-stan-tial (either
division); indus-try; instruc-tion; sug-ges-tion; incen-diary.

The student will do well to examine the syllable-division in a number of pages
of any carefully printed book.

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III. ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES OF COMPOSITION

Make the paragraph the unit of composition: one paragraph to each topic.

If the subject on which you are writing is of slight extent, or if you intend
to treat it very briefly, there may be no need of subdividing it into topics.
Thus a brief description, a brief summary of a literary work, a brief account
of a single incident, a narrative merely outlining an action, the setting
forth of a single idea, any one of these is best written in a single
paragraph. After the paragraph has been written, it should be examined to see
whether subdivision will not improve it.

Ordinarily, however, a subject requires subdivision into topics, each of which
should be made the subject of a paragraph. The object of treating each topic
in a paragraph by itself is, of course, to aid the reader. The beginning of
each paragraph is a signal to him that a new step in the development of the
subject has been reached.

The extent of subdivision will vary with the length of the composition. For
example, a short notice of a book or poem might consist of a single paragraph.
One slightly longer might consist of two paragraphs:

Account of the work.
Critical discussion.