keenly analyzed, all the points or facts should be systematically arranged, all contrasts, appositions and series noted, and a complete framework constructed, and then it will be found that such a clear understanding will be possessed of the matter that is to be paraphrased that the words to convey the thoughts will flow freely. All that is necessary is to hold on to the idea, to keep the thought clearly before the mind, and the words to convey it will spontaneously appear. Paraphrasing makes a careful reader or observer, and, if you remember, stress has, in several of these lessons, been placed upon the prime necessity of paying attention to things in order that they may be impressed upon the mind; and in the second place, it trains the student to keep ever before him, while the mind is in operation, his object, thought, or
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