I wondered if any corrections were desired for The Lost Tools of Writing? After homeschooling for so many years, things just jump out at me. I'll just give a couple, and then I won't say any more if it's not desired. It seems that many things are capitalized that shouldn't be. I specifically looked up "arrangement," "invention," and "elocution" in Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student. Corbett does not capitalize them. They're general terms, not names of specific things.

Also, I've never seen an outline form as presented in Arrangement Template 1. I think there should be Arabic numerals where the small "i's" are. Of course, maybe there are a lot of variations I've never seen before.

Then this is the one that got me just tonight and prompted me to write. On page 38 in Lesson Two, it says "They have begun to develp their own resources to come up with information, they have practiced sorting this information, and expressed their thoughts simply and directly." I thought this one particularly striking since parallelism is the subject for the elocution module of this lesson. Those three things are presented as if they are parallel, but they aren't since two are sentences. The third could be part of a compound verb if the first two sentences were converted. So I would think it could only be correct in one of these two ways:

"They have begun to develop their own resources to come up with information; (semi-colon needed, I think since they're definitely independent clauses) they have practiced sorting this information, and they have expressed their thoughts simply and directly."

OR

"They have begun to develop their own resources to come up with information, practiced sorting this information, and expressed their thoughts simply and directly."


Hope this is helpful.