How to Speak and Write Correctly: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

How to Speak and Write Correctly, credited to Joseph Devlin, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of How to Speak and Write Correctly, by Joseph Devlin. Read by Librivox volunteers. This is a 1910 guide for those who wish to learn how to correctly (though maybe not "properly") create sentences, use figures of speech, write letters, and more, all while choosing the right words and doing it with style. Joseph Devlin's words may not all be relevant still today, but at least it sounds good when it's read aloud! (Summary by Andrew Lebrun).

Recording facts

• Recording title: How to Speak and Write Correctly
• Author credits: Joseph Devlin
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 16
• Listed recording duration: 5:42:01

Catalogue topics

• English
• composition
• punctuation
• self-help
• instruction

Track guide

1. 00 - Introduction — 2:31
2. 01 - Requirements of Speech — 12:43
3. 02 - Essentials of English Grammar — 40:47
4. 03 - The Sentence — 29:20
5. 04 - Figurative Language — 17:34
6. 05 - Punctuation — 33:11
7. 06 - Letter Writing — 26:32
8. 07 - Errors — 26:38
9. 08 - Pitfalls to Avoid — 37:21
10. 09 - Style — 27:44
11. 10 - Suggestions — 18:35
12. 11 - Slang — 17:37
13. 12 - Writing for Newspapers — 19:00
14. 13 - Choice of Words — 13:34
15. 14 - English Language — 14:22
16. 15 - Masters and Masterpieces of Literature — 4:40

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