This program is the follow-up to Logical Communication — a course that emphasizes logical flow, organization of ideas. The emphasis of this course, in comparison, is insight: those fleeting, intuitive leaps and connections all of us make at some point — magic glimpses of understanding, and also wisdom.

Inside our daily lives, we seldom capture our insights, seldom record them or explore them. Yet they generate for splendid essays. Students in this program, accordingly, are trained, first, to see and record their own observations and insights; second, to explore them in the form of essays.

The difficulty utilizing the approach that is academic

In schools, the essay is usually presented to students as a peculiar artifact of the classroom, unrelated to the world that is outside. Students come to know the essay as an embarrassing but necessary academic chore, one properly conducted in a rigid and tedious form, such as the five-paragraph essay.

Writing Intensives

In keeping with this method, students are usually asked to write essays before they have actually read any.

Everything about this approach does students a disservice that is real. The truth is, essays play a vital role in the real world: these are the principal forum for sharing insights or discoveries and for hashing out controversies. In just about any field of human endeavor — science, economics, history, law, foreign policy, you name it — the leaders or pioneers in the field invariably seek out the essay while the medium of preference for discussing new developments out in the frontiers of discovery. So in most field, the most important discussions and debates take place by means of essays.

In addition, traditional writing instruction leaves students ill-prepared for writing challenges they are going to soon face — e.g., college-admissions essays, scholarship-application essays — which bear little resemblance to the essay that is five-paragraph. Students in this course, by contrast, emerge not merely with relevant training for writing essays that are such they emerge with a toolkit for producing all of them with great efficiency.

Understanding the form

It really is no accident that this course is named Essay Writing & Appreciation: our students read a few of the finest essays ever written. In this course, moreover, the essays have now been selected for their astonishing insights.

Comprehending the essay form and what it could achieve is really important to your function of this course: equipping students to state their thoughts that are own insights in writing. This way, the program prepares our students to be involved in real life of essays — discussions conducted by leaders in whatever fields our students may pursue.

Writing activities

Students in this program undertake a number of class activities and homework. As well as reading and analyzing essays by great writers, our students:

• maintain a notebook of observations & insights;
• routinely sketch out essay >The activities in this program are also designed to reinforce skills studied in Logical Communication — skills like:

• crafting effective openings;
• clear thinking;
• Producing flow that is logical
• clarity and precision of expression;
• economy of expression;
• enhancing impact.

Course fees

The fee because of this course that is two-semester $ 1340.
($670 per semester).

What exactly is included

This program comprises:

• thirty 90-minute sessions and thirty 1-hour sessions, for a total of 75 hours of live instruction, including activities and discussion;

Writing

Writing is one of the most difficult subjects to teach — and partly since it is not an individual complex skill, but rather a host of skills, many different and intertwined. It’s also a process — and like all processes that are complex it is vunerable to inefficient, i.e., time-wasting, approaches.

To create effectively, students must have:

• command of language — the capability to put thoughts into clear English, with rich vocabulary, correct usage, and correct punctuation;
• knowledge, perceptions, and insights — put differently, they must have something to say;
• convincing arguments — the ability to present a case that is sound with clear points supported by sol >Our writing instruction, accordingly, is predicated on the next principles:

• To make writing that is clear students must first have clear thoughts.
• To create in a particular form — like the essay they must explore models— they must first understand and appreciate that form, i.e.
• Students should be loaded with a rich arsenal of tools not merely for writing, but for thinking — for working together with thoughts and >For each one of these reasons, we teach writing in stages, utilizing the first stage being Logical Communication — a course for which our students become adept at dealing with ideas, identifying sound arguments, and perceiving logical flow. Also, our students read and started to appreciate great essays, after which they start to write essays themselves.

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