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All with one dynamic, easy to use, The Lost Tools of Writing™ You know the feeling: the topic looms, glaring at you, waiting for you to develop it into a well balanced, effective piece of writing. But you don’t know where to begin. More… You are a teacher. You have a hard enough time putting your own thoughts on paper; it seems impossible to guide a student towards writing an effective essay. More… The Lost Tools of Writing is for YOU! The Lost Tools of Writing is a composition program based on a three stage approach to writing that will enable you to dramatically improve your ability to write well, your ability to teach writing, and your ability to help your students learn how to think well. The ability to write well is a vital skill, particularly in a modern world driven by communication. To be able to clearly, succinctly, and creatively prepare an essay, letter, report, or speech is as much an art form as painting or drawing; and like painting a beautiful portrait or landscape, writing well takes discipline, structure, and hard work.
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You have ideas for what their papers should sound like, or how they should flow --after all, you know how a good essay reads! -- Yet, your students seem to rely on a quote-book. They struggle to combine their inherent creativity with solid fundamentals of writing. You see the potential in their writing, in their ideas, and in their thoughts - but you just don’t know how to bring it out and guide them toward a complete and coherent paper. |
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You have ideas and visuals and a few great sentences bouncing around in your brain. However, you don’t know how to transform those ideas into a coherent whole. You aren’t sure how to introduce your topic in a way that’s going to pique your reader’s interest, let alone how to prove your thesis and keep his interest. As for the conclusion? Well, you may as well not even bother thinking about the that! Sometimes you feel like giving up, right? Everybody has felt this way at some time or another. |
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The first problem every writer encounters is getting started. Many writers freeze at the topic sentence. The Lost Tools of Writing™ resolves this dilemma through the Topics of Invention. The topics of invention are five simple questions that writers use to discover ideas and content. Before writing a single sentence, your students will have already completed a simple, easy-to-understand process and collected far more information than they could ever use! Good Bye, Blank Mind!
The second great problem you encounter when you write is ordering your thoughts. Now that you know what you want to say, you need to organize those ideas. The Lost Tools of Writing™ overcomes this challenge through the Canon of Arrangement. Using the canon of arrangement, you guide your student through a step by step process to add one element at a time until the simple rudimentary essay becomes the complete persuasive essay. By the end of their first year with The Lost Tools of Writing™, your students will easily create an outline that makes their writing clear and easy to read. It will also help make the third and last writing stage much simpler. No more blank pages!
“I have seen it turn non-writers
Camille Goldston, Whetstone Tutorials The third universal writing problem is expressing oneself appropriately. Once you know the order in which you want to say what you have to say, now you can decide exactly how you want to say it. The Lost Tools of Writing™ answers your perplexity with the canon of Elocution. Your students learn how best to express their thoughts through basic editing (verbs, subjects, nominalizations, etc.), but the real magic occurs when they learn to use schemes (like parallelism, alliteration, etc.), and tropes (like similes, metaphors, etc). Elocution enables your writers to combine their creativity with a disciplined and orderly structure to create insightful, well-researched, and carefully reasoned essays. Good bye, stale writing!
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Through its extensive, user-friendly teacher’s guide, The Lost Tools of Writing™ accompanies you every step of the way as you teach the three canons of Invention, Arrangement, and Elocution to your students. It also provides you with tools to improve your own teaching. Whether you are a home school parent, a high school English teacher, a College Humanities professor - or even an elementary school teacher, your teaching involves the art of rhetoric. The Lost Tools of Writing™ is a classical rhetoric program. 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. It enables you to integrate all your teaching because its tools and skills are used in every subject across the curriculum. While teaching The Lost Tools of Writing™, you’ll learn a great deal more than just how to write! |
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Your students will learn to write essays with confidence and you’ll gain tools to help you become an even better teacher. But there’s still more. We developed The Lost Tools of Writing™ because of our passion for students to learn how to think more deeply and more clearly. It does more than show your students how to string a few sentences together in an orderly fashion or imitate somebody else’s thoughts. It actually helps them think better about things that matter. Through The Lost Tools of Writing™, your students will practice sorting through information to determine what is essential and what is optional. They will investigate how ideas relate to each other, examine context and circumstances, assess authorities, and learn how to compare and define things in ways that open the hidden secrets to them. Do you remember Camille, whom we quoted above? Well, she went on to add this: “... And I’ve seen [The Lost Tools of Writing™] turn... non-thinkers into thinkers!” Purchase your copy today for the Launch Party price of only $97.00 for the whole package:
You'll understand why one teacher told us, "I finally learned how to teach my kids to write!" |
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