Writer's Workshop: Imitating Your Way to Better Writing - Softcover

Roper, Gregory L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1933859334 ISBN 13: 9781933859330

Publisher: ISI Books, 2007

Synopsis

The Writer's Workshop takes an approach to teaching writing that is new only because it is so old. Today, rhetoric and composition typically proceed by ignoring what was done for 2,500 years in Western education. Gregory Roper, on the other hand, helps students learn to write in the way the great writers of the past themselves learned: by carefully imitating masters of the craft, including Cicero, Thomas Aquinas, Charles Dickens, Sojourner Truth, James Joyce, and Ernest Hemingway. By living in their workshops and apprenticing to these and other masters, apprentice writers--like apprentice musicians, painters, and blacksmiths of the past--will rapidly improve the complexity of their art and discover their own native voices. Interspersed into chapters full of sound practical advice and challenging assignments are reflections on Great Ideas from "Realism and Impressionism" to "Nominalism and Modern Science." Perfect for the college or even high school writing classroom--as well as a marvelous book for homeschoolers and others who would like to improve their own writing--The Writer's Workshop is a fine practical guide, and Dr. Roper a friendly yet demanding teacher-mentor.

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Review

Should serve as a roadmap to revitalizing the private sector. This sharply written, thoroughly-researched narrative weaves together financial history, economic doctrine, and character study so skillfully that recent decades policy debates become not only comprehensible, but at times, downright exciting. . . . A vivid and deeply researched look at the forces that unleash prosperity, move history, and enhance great nations. In our time of loose money and rising taxes, supply-side s second revolution may begin with this book.
Real Clear Markets

Couldn t be more timely. "Econoclasts" reminds us of what s wrong with current policy. Domitrovic adds significant value in his review of Carter- and Reagan-era economics.

Amity Shlaes, bestselling author of "The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression"

A brilliant look at America s last economic crisis and Ronald Reagan s supply-side solutions that finally ended it. The same free-market incentive model would work today. This is the book Americans need to read now, as our leaders rush forward to deal with the present crisis without consulting the lessons of the past.

Larry Kudlow, host of CNBC s "The Kudlow Report"

I ve never read anything on the subject of economics that surpasses this extraordinary book for its lucidity, richness, depth, intelligibility, savvy, and sheer intellectual excitement. Its publication could hardly come at a better time, as the fatal attraction of statism seems to have reemerged, one more time, from the murky depths to which it had been consigned.

Wilfred McClay, award-winning historian, SunTrust Bank Chair of Excellence in Humanities at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Fascinating. Domitrovic has corrected a glaring intellectual deficiency with his new history of the supply-side movement. He is to be commended for his masterful gathering of evidence and his capturing of the feel of the era, of the passion of Arthur Laffer, Robert Mundell, Bob Bartley, and the other supply-side pioneers.

Richard Vedder, distinguished professor of economics at Ohio University, author of "Going Broke by Degree""

Should serve as a roadmap to revitalizing the private sector. This sharply written, thoroughly-researched narrative weaves together financial history, economic doctrine, and character study so skillfully that recent decades policy debates become not only comprehensible, but at times, downright exciting. . . . A vivid and deeply researched look at the forces that unleash prosperity, move history, and enhance great nations. In our time of loose money and rising taxes, supply-side s second revolution may begin with this book.
Real Clear Markets

Couldn t be more timely. Econoclasts reminds us of what s wrong with current policy. Domitrovic adds significant value in his review of Carter- and Reagan-era economics.

Amity Shlaes, bestselling author of The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression

A brilliant look at America s last economic crisis and Ronald Reagan s supply-side solutions that finally ended it. The same free-market incentive model would work today. This is the book Americans need to read now, as our leaders rush forward to deal with the present crisis without consulting the lessons of the past.

Larry Kudlow, host of CNBC s The Kudlow Report

I ve never read anything on the subject of economics that surpasses this extraordinary book for its lucidity, richness, depth, intelligibility, savvy, and sheer intellectual excitement. Its publication could hardly come at a better time, as the fatal attraction of statism seems to have reemerged, one more time, from the murky depths to which it had been consigned.

Wilfred McClay, award-winning historian, SunTrust Bank Chair of Excellence in Humanities at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Fascinating. Domitrovic has corrected a glaring intellectual deficiency with his new history of the supply-side movement. He is to be commended for his masterful gathering of evidence and his capturing of the feel of the era, of the passion of Arthur Laffer, Robert Mundell, Bob Bartley, and the other supply-side pioneers.

Richard Vedder, distinguished professor of economics at Ohio University, author of Going Broke by Degree

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"Should serve as a roadmap to revitalizing the private sector. This sharply written, thoroughly-researched narrative weaves together financial history, economic doctrine, and character study so skillfully that recent decades' policy debates become not only comprehensible, but at times, downright exciting. . . . A vivid and deeply researched look at the forces that unleash prosperity, move history, and enhance great nations. In our time of loose money and rising taxes, supply-side's second revolution may begin with this book."
--Real Clear Markets

"Couldn't be more timely. Econoclasts reminds us of what's wrong with current policy. Domitrovic adds significant value in his review of Carter- and Reagan-era economics."

--Amity Shlaes, bestselling author of The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression

"A brilliant look at America's last economic crisis and Ronald Reagan's supply-side solutions that finally ended it. The same free-market incentive model would work today. This is the book Americans need to read now, as our leaders rush forward to deal with the present crisis without consulting the lessons of the past."

--Larry Kudlow, host of CNBC's The Kudlow Report

"I've never read anything on the subject of economics that surpasses this extraordinary book for its lucidity, richness, depth, intelligibility, savvy, and sheer intellectual excitement. Its publication could hardly come at a better time, as the fatal attraction of statism seems to have reemerged, one more time, from the murky depths to which it had been consigned."

--Wilfred McClay, award-winning historian, SunTrust Bank Chair of Excellence in Humanities at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

"Fascinating. Domitrovic has corrected a glaring intellectual deficiency with his new history of the supply-side movement. He is to be commended for his masterful gathering of evidence and his capturing of the feel of the era, of the passion of Arthur Laffer, Robert Mundell, Bob Bartley, and the other supply-side pioneers."

--Richard Vedder, distinguished professor of economics at Ohio University, author of Going Broke by Degree

About the Author

Gregory L. Roper, is based in Irving, Texas, (University of Dallas) and from July 1st 2007 will be working in Rome, Italy. Roper is an English professor and director of the Writing Program at the University of Dallas, has taught courses in composition, literature, and various genres of writing at the University of Virginia, Ripon College, and Northwest Missouri State University. A medievalist by training, Dr. Roper has published on penitential manuals and their influence on late-medieval literature, including the Gawain poet and Chaucer, and has written poetry and prose for such general-interest magazines as First Things. His degrees come from the University of Dallas and the University of Virginia.

About this edition

• Publisher: ISI Books
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1933859334
• ISBN 13: 9781933859330
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 215