Developing Excellent Writers for Our Future: Using the Progymnasmata

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Pen and Schroll

As with the previous stage Description is primarily concerned with the development of particular styles as the students bring the subject of the exercise vividly into the reader’s imagination.  In description a fast paced, free, relaxed style is developed with the inclusion of many figures (of description, speech, and thought). 

Key Benefits

  • Diverse and engaging topics for exercises
  • Explicit instruction for development of style
  • Allows for creative, engaging eloquence

Capabilities

  • Hold a reader's attention through a lenghthy description
  • Innovative and imaginative expression
  • Ability to write using a free, relaxed and fast paced style

Pricing

Description SKU # Price
Description Teacher's Manual
8001 $20
Description Student's Workbook
8002 $10
Complete Description Lesson Plans on CD for Schools

(includes rights to copy workbooks for classroom use)

8003 $100

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 Pen and Schroll

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Aphthonius’ Progymnasmata as a Means to Preparing Innovative Communicators

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