Starting to Write (Research & Writing)

By Josh Herring, Elizabeth Jetton, Winston Brady

The goal of Research & Writing: Starting to Write is to integrate the intellectual heritage of the Western tradition with the skills, concepts, and content to help students become excellent leaders, writers, and thinkers. To accomplish this goal, this combination workbook and textbook integrates grammar and writing lessons with primary source texts. These primary source texts include the very best works of philosophy, literature, and history from the beginning to the end of the Western canon. Section I features grammar lessons on capitalization, parts of speech, and punctuation. The writing lessons include Aristotle's three modes of persuasion, the thesis statement, and an overview of the writing process and classical rhetoric. Lastly, the primary source texts integrated into these grammar and writing lessons include samples from Aristotle's Rhetoric , Plato's Apology , and Quintilian's On the Education of an Orator . Section II , meanwhile, features grammar lessons on subject-verb agreement, nominative and objective pronouns, relative pronouns, and interrogative pronouns. The writing lessons include cause-and-effect essays, compare-and-contrast essays, and persuasive essays. Lastly, the primary source texts integrated into these grammar and writing lessons include samples from Boccaccio's Decameron , Machiavelli's The Prince , William Shakespeare's Henry V , and Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice . Editorial Review : "Overall, the two volumes are a welcome entry into the discussion surrounding classical education and writing instruction. Neither falling into the deficient position of aiming towards practicality alone, nor the excessive position of eschewing more recent developments in writing, these texts should serve as a great help to many in the classical education circle. Other publishers would do well to take note of their layout and teacher supports, and many schools would benefit from a serious discussion about exactly how their writing program is forming students. The folks at Thales Press are asking these same questions and producing sound teaching aids to show that the answers to such questions matter" Sean Hadley, Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Classical Education Research Lab at the University of Arkansas. Review in full available here: https://classicaledreview.substack.com/p/research-and-writing-series?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0BPGC7MN5
• ISBN13: 9798830920766
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 195 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.4" x 8.5"