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The Writer's Workshop: Imitating Your Way to Better Writing

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The Writer's Workshop takes an approach to teaching writing that is new only because it is so old.

Today, rhetoric and composition typically proceed by ignoring what was done for 2,500 years in Western education. Gregory Roper, on the other hand, helps students learn to write in the way the great writers of the past themselves learned: by carefully imitating masters of the craft, including Cicero, Thomas Aquinas, Charles Dickens, Sojourner Truth, James Joyce, and Ernest Hemingway. By living ...