The Lost Tools Of Writing™
Better Writing ▪ Better
Teaching ▪ Better Thinking
Reduce
anxiety, increase confidence, and improve thinking skills –
all with one
powerful, easy to use, Christian Classical composition program.
To view a demo of The Lost Tools of Writing,
click HERE.
To purchase The Lost Tools of Writing,
click HERE.
  
Every writer must face the
blank page, the vast, disheartening, empty space that comes with being
at a loss for words. The empty page is a universal problem that every
Pulitzer Prize winner knows as well as any high school student, it’s
as frustrating to professional journalists as it is to students
writing their SATs.
Even when a writer has come up
with something to say, he still must organize his thoughts, and he
must find the best way to present those ideas. He must learn to
recognize those ideas and thoughts that are most relevant to his topic
and he must identify how they relate to one another.
These are the often-crippling
barriers over which every writer must hurdle.
The Lost Tools of Writing
enables students and teachers to spring over these barriers by
providing the tools and skills they need to overcome these challenges.
Better Writing
First and foremost, The Lost
Tools of Writing teaches students how to write.
By implementing classical tools
of instruction – the very same tools that Shakespeare learned – the
program gives aspiring writers the confidence to conquer the blank
page, the ability to organize their ideas, and the eye and ear to
appropriately express those ideas.
No longer will your student
sit, petrified, before a blank computer screen or an empty notebook.
One anonymous college student
recently told us: Before I studied The Lost Tools of Writing,
the prospect of composing essays terrified me. But now I can do it!
By employing the classical
tools of Invention, Arrangement, and Elocution, The Lost Tools of
Writing provides writing students with valuable exercises and
guidelines that enable them to work through the complicated process of
writing well.
Better Teaching
The Lost Tools of Writing™
also provides teachers
with the tools to improve
their own instruction.
Since teaching applies the art
of rhetoric, the better you understand rhetoric, the more effectively
you will teach. Therefore, The Lost Tools of Writing provides
questions you can use in any class (science, math, history,
literature, even art), communication devices to help clarify any
point, and a pattern through which you can teach any idea.
Recognizing that each subject
has its own logic and that there is an overall logic that ties every
subject together, the program applies across your curriculum, tying
the elements together into an integrated, unified, whole.
Thus, your students will learn
to write well while they dive into their other subjects and, in
fact, they will learn those other subjects by writing about them. So
they can learn about the Civil War by writing about it, or they can
discover the mysteries and beauties of the Sahara by writing about it.
Through The Lost of Writing
you can teach writing and so much more.
Better Thinking
Best of all, the Lost Tools of
Writing improves your student’s thinking.
Thinking relies on four basic
skills: attentive perception, contemplation,
careful conception, and re-presentation. The Lost Tools of Writing
refines each of these faculties, even as it teaches students how to
write.
Since the program
teaches the deep logic that ties all thinking together and makes
refined thinking possible, your students won’t learn writing merely as
a specialized subject, but they will learn it as a tool for better
thinking. They will be able to think more deeply, more effectively in
every class because they will learn, often without even
realizing it, the tools for all thinking.
They will learn how key ideas
relate to each other, how characters or hypotheses or images relate to
each other. They will learn to identify meaning in those
relationships.
They will learn to read more
purposefully while simultaneously discovering just how interesting and
satisfying good literature is; to look at art more closely, while
simultaneously discovering how meaningful beautiful art can be; to
examine the sciences more intently while simultaneously discovering
how eye opening creation is.
The Lost Tools of Writing
opens students and teachers alike to new worlds of ideas and
relationships and beauty. It inspires students with confidence in
their abilities and offers teachers peace. The Lost Tools of
Writing reduces the anxiety of that disheartening blank space.
To view a demo of The Lost Tools of Writing,
click HERE.
To purchase The Lost Tools of Writing,
click HERE.
To access the Supplemental Modules,
click
HERE.
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