What is the difference between the Progymnasmata and the course in Classical English Composition?
The classical English composition course is a two-year college prep sequence in which the 14 levels of the Progymnasmata are presented in abridged fashion and has been instituted for students who have had no opportunity to complete all the tools of amplification presented in the full six to eight year sequence. Students are able to generate only one project in each of the fourteen levels and will use fewer tools of amplification; by contrast, the Progymnasmata constintue a complete sequence. Progymnasmata students will produce several different projects at each level, and will learn to use a virtually complete set of amplifications. For more information on the tools of amplification, visit Dr. Gideon Burton’s Silva Rhetorica. 3. Does the Progymnasta program prepare a student for college writing? Yes. One of the college professor’s most frequent comments on student essays is, “Your idea is good but not sufficiently developed.” Such a criticism will never be applied to a skilled veteran
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