Institute for Excellence in Writing Presents
The Two Andrews: On Writing and Teaching Writing with Andrew Pudewa & Andrew Kern
Hosted at Five Locations in Virginia and North Carolina, January 25-29, 2011
LOCATIONS:
1. Tuesday, Jan. 25 – Salem Fields Community Church, 11120 Gordon Rd., Fredericksburg, VA 22407
2. Wednesday, Jan. 26 – St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church, 2805 Valleywood Dr., Woodbridge, VA 22192
3. Thursday, Jan. 27 – Timberlake Baptist Church, 21395 Timberlake Rd., Lynchburg, VA 24502
4. Friday, Jan. 28 – Covenant Christian Fellowship, 542 Southpark Blvd., Colonial Heights, VA 23834
5. Saturday, Jan. 29 – Hopewell Baptist Church, 18841 Davidson-Concord Road, Davidson, NC 28036
To register for any or all of these events, go to:
http://www.excellenceinwriting.com/VA-KPW-11 or call (800) 856-5815
Cost: $59.00/person, second family member half price!
Time: 9AM-4PM
The Two Andrews Seminar Sessions Include:
– The four language arts: listening, reading, speaking, and writing – Pudewa
Nurture excellent communication skills even more effectively by understanding the relationships among these four critical skills.
– The five paths to great writing – Kern
Theoretical: understanding the science of writing
Literary: studying the great masterpieces of literature as models
Critical: learning the details of good usage
Practical: practicing the art of writing
Linguistic: translating great works of literature into and out of English
– The distinctives of classical rhetoric – Kern
The three canons as solutions to the three problems; the place of rhetoric as the “deep logic” of the entire curriculum and therefore as the natural ordering principle of the student’s studies; indeed, what was classical rhetoric and what happened to it?
– Developing the essayist: a natural approach – Pudewa
How can a student move from simply reporting facts to the more sophisticated skill of using facts to support an opinion? Learn several different essay models, and discover a gradual method of building the analytical writer, starting even at the elementary level!
– Assessment – Pudewa/Kern
Marking and grading: objectivity, motivation, and sanity. How to keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and planting seeds of doubt.
– Common problems in teaching & where do you go from here? – Pudewa/Kern
Get every question answered; know what’s the next step for you and your students!
