Part 15 (2/2)
Since, then, every division of a subject arded as a unit that is complete in itself whatever its position in the article, each of the several kinds of units may be studied separately For this purpose we may discuss five common types of units: (1) examples, (2) incidents, (3) statistics, (4) scientific and technical processes, and (5) recipes and directions
METHODS OF DEVELOPING UNITS In order to present these units most effectively, and to vary the form of presentation when occasion demands, a writer needs to be fa each one of these types Four co material within these units are: (1) exposition, narration, or description in the writer's oords; (2) dialogue; (3) the interview; (4) direct or indirect quotation Statistics and recipes iven in tabular form
When a unit may be developed with equal effectiveness by any one of several ives variety to his article If, for example, the units just before and after the one under consideration are to be in direct quotation, he should avoid any form that involves quoted matter
EXAMPLES In all types of articles the concrete exaeneral idea To e pension laould be neither co how a particular old man had been benefited by the laould appeal to practically every one That is, to explain the operation and advantages of such a lae give, as one unit, the concrete example of this old man Actual examples are preferable to hypothetical ones, but the latter may occasionally be used when real cases are not available Iinary instances may be introduced by such phrases as, ”If, for example,” or ”Suppose, for instance, that”
To explain why coainst loss of their jewelry are coate carefully every claiave several cases in which individuals supposed that they were entitled to payation showed that they had not actually sustained any loss One of these cases, that given below, he decided to relate in his oords, without conversation or quotation, although he iven the dialogue between the detective and the woarded the facts theether with the suspense as to the outco to render unnecessary any other device for creating interest
Another woman of equal wealth and equally undoubted honesty lost a horseshoe diaht, but failed to find it So she made her ”proof of loss” in affidavit form and asked the surety company hich she carried the policy on all her jewelry to replace the article
She said in her affidavit that she had worn the pin in a restaurant a few nights before and had lost it that night, either in the restaurant or on her way there or back The restaurant ement had searched for it, the restaurant help had been questioned closely, the autoone over carefully, and the woiven to the goorn by the woman on that occasion; every inch of it had been exa froht in the folds
The surety coned one of its detectives to look for the pin From surface indications the loss had the appearance of a theft--an ”inside job” The company, however, asked that its detective be allowed to search the woranted readily The detective then inquired for the various gohich the wo several weeks
This line of investigation the owner of the pin considered a waste of ti the pin to the restaurant on that particular night, and her husband also reht and put his memory in affidavit form But the detective persisted and with the help of a owns
In the ruffle at the bottom of one of them, worn for the last time at least a week before the visit to the restaurant, she found the pin The woman and her husband simply had been mistaken--honestly mistaken She hadn't worn the pin to the restaurant, and her husband hadn't seen it that night The error was unintentional, but it cae sum of money
The benefits of a newly established clinic for animals were demonstrated in a special feature article in the _New York Times_ by the selection of several aniiven below did not see if only the bare facts were given, and so he undertook to create sy and the distress of the two young wo the sympathies of the readers, he was better able to impress them with the benefits of the clinic
The other day Daisy, a little fox terrier, was one of the patients
She was a pretty little thing, three , pathetic eyes She was escorted to the clinic by two hatless young women, in shawls, and three children The children waited outside in the reception roo self-consciously, while the woently e, and the doctor exa, and the poor little anis do, while the doctor searched for a broken bone It was toooutside the door, put her fingers in her ears, while the tears rolled down her cheeks
”Well, I wouldn't cry for a dog,” said a workrin, while the three children--and children are always rinned sympathetically But it was a very real sorrow for Daisy's mistress
There was no reason for alar the ani her a bath Her friends were told to take her ho ater, and keep her as quiet as possible Her mistress, still with a troubled face, wrapped her carefully in the black shawl she earing, so that only the puppy's little white head and big, soft eyes peeped out, and the small procession ned to sho e in this country could deal with cases of delinquent girls in the juvenile court than could the ordinary police court judge, a writer selected several cases that she had disposed of in her characteristic way The first case, which follows, he decided could best be reported _verbatim_, as by that method he could showwith even the least appreciative of girls
The first case brought in the other day was that of a girl of 16, who hated her ho away, sometimes to a married sister, and sometimes to a friend She was accompanied by her mother and older sister, both with deterered into the room in an i her
”Ella,” said Miss Bartel up from her desk, ”why didn't you tell me the truth when you came in here the other day? You did not tell me where you had been Don't you understand that it is ht away?”
Ella hung her head and said nothing The older sister scowled at the girl andto thequestioned ”We don't want nothing more to do with her”
”Humph,” snorted Ella, ”you needn't think I want to co more to do with you, either”
Miss Bartel themselves; for in this way, far , she learns the attitude of the girl and the family toward each other, and indirectly arrives at most of the actual facts of the case
”Hoould you like to go into a good home where soe
”I don't want nobody to love me”
”Why, Ella, wouldn't you like to have a kind friend, so with and ould be interested in you?”
”I don't want no friends I just want to be left alone”