Developing Excellent Writers for Our Future: Using the Progymnasmata

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This stage is primarily concerned with the skills of style although students continue to practice the skills of Invention and Arrangement. This exercise further develops the students' skills of sequencing and is told as a soliloquy—further honing their narrative ability. This particular style is achieved through continued mastery of paraphrase and confining students to an abbreviated word count.

Key Benefits

  • Empathetic and engaging topics for exercises
  • Explicit instruction for development of style
  • Allows for creative, "outside the box" eloquence

Capabilities

  • Ability to write from unusual points of view
  • Innovative expression
  • Clear, concise, and colorful style

Pricing

Description SKU # Price
Characterization Teacher's Manual
7001 $20
Characterization Student's Workbook
7002 $10
Complete Characterization Lesson Plans on CD for Schools

(includes rights to copy workbooks for classroom use)

7003 $100

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 Pen and Schroll

Papers on Aphthonius' Progymnasmata

The Vertical Integration of Aphthonius' Progymnasmata

Aphthonius’ Progymnasmata as a Means to Preparing Innovative Communicators

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