Starting to Write

by Winston Brady, Josh Herring, Elizabeth Jetton

The goal of Research & Starting to Write is to integrate the intellectual heritage of the Western tradition with the skills, concepts, and content to help students become excellent leaders, writers, and thinkers. To accomplish this goal, this combination workbook and textbook integrates grammar and writing lessons with primary source texts. These primary source texts include the very best works of philosophy, literature, and history from the beginning to the end of the Western canon. Section I features grammar lessons on capitalization, parts of speech, and punctuation. The writing lessons include Aristotle’s three modes of persuasion, the thesis statement, and an overview of the writing process and classical rhetoric. Lastly, the primary source texts integrated into these grammar and writing lessons include samples from Aristotle’s Rhetoric , Plato’s Apology , and Quintilian’s On the Education of an Orator . Section II , meanwhile, features grammar lessons on subject-verb agreement, nominative and objective pronouns, relative pronouns, and interrogative pronouns. The writing lessons include cause-and-effect essays, compare-and-contrast essays, and persuasive essays. Lastly, the primary source texts integrated into these grammar and writing lessons include samples from Boccaccio’s Decameron , Machiavelli’s The Prince , William Shakespeare’s Henry V , and Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice .

195 pages, Paperback

Published December 8, 2022