Religious Worldview Classical Rhetoric Through Structure and Style: Writing Lessons Based on the Progymnasmata
This book is based on the Progymnasmata, featuring excerpts from classical sources such as Greek myths, Canterbury Tales, and the Bible. Students will learn various writing skills, including note-taking, narration, comparison, and formal critique, with a focus on reasoning and articulation. This classical course consists of 121 reproducible pages in a softcover spiral-bound format.
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This book offers a collection of writing exercises that have been used for a long time in the Western tradition. Each lesson includes a piece of writing from a classical source such as Greek myths, the Canterbury Tales, and the Bible. The course is called Teaching Writing: Structure & Style and focuses on note-taking, writing proverbs and fables from notes, narration, encomium and viuperation, description, comparison, impersonation, thesis/confirmation/refutation, and formal critique. By practicing these exercises, students can improve their reasoning and articulation skills. They will also learn to analyze written works and write essays and arguments based on the exercises. This book contains 121 reproducible pages and is softcover and spiralbound.
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Subject: Language Arts
Grade: Grade 7-Grade 12
Brand: Institute for Excellence in Writing
Publisher Date: 01/01/2008
Author: Adam Muller
UPC: 9780977986088
Pages: 132