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10933235 No.10933235 [Reply] [Original]

What are the best books for improving one's grammar and writing?

>> No.10933264
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>>10933235
You posted it. That version of Trivium and this version of Trivium. I think you should try Mortimer J Adler's "How To Read A Book". I also suggest reading books by authors you really enjoy and trying to take serious notes on their writing, point out what they did right and act as an additional editor. A great editor can make a great writer.

>> No.10933294

>>10933264
Thanks for the suggestions

>I also suggest reading books by authors you really enjoy and trying to take serious notes on their writing, point out what they did right and act as an additional editor. A great editor can make a great writer.

I couldn't agree more.

>> No.10934043

>>10933235
Paul Dry Books, based. Great small catalog includes a reprint of Golding's Ovid (Metamorphoses) and much of the catalog of Eva Brann, one of the most helpful, still living modern scholars (in the tradition of Sister Miriam Joseph). Begin with Then and Now.

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>>10934043
>>10933264
Can someone enlighten me on the difference between trivuum and quadrivium?

>> No.10935056

>>10934557
The latter employs or uses the former but also adds and practically uses mathematics- arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy. The trivium's grammar, logic, rhetoric.