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.

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