Advanced Writing Seminar With Eric Burns Begins November 11
Join Eric Burns in this short survey course aimed at sharpening your writing skills across a number of genres. Burns will draw from his experiences as an award winning journalist and author to help make writing come alive for you. Critique of weekly writing assignments will be used to drive home points and encourage discussion.
As Eric Burns explains, “Unlike math or science or history, writing is more than a subject. Writing is actually a synonym for thinking, and thinking—as opposed to memorization—is the tool without which no learning, in any subject, is possible. The only difference between thinking and writing is that the former is done between your ears and the latter between the margins of a sheet of paper. But writing is the only ’subject’ taught in high school that will be with you for the rest of your life no matter what your field. Everyone has to think. Everyone has to place his thoughts on paper. (Or on a computer screen.) Even the mathematician, scientist or historian has to write. To write clearly, then, is to take the first step toward thinking clearly, which is in turn the first step toward mastering not only every subject in high school and college, but every possible job in the marketplace. There is nothing more important for a young scholar to accomplish.”
Eric Burns is a former NBC News correspondent who, in that position, was named one of the best writers in the history of television journalism. He also won an Emmy for media criticism.For ten years, he served as the host of Fox News Watch, the most critically-acclaimed program on the network. He has written eight books. Two of them were published by an academic press and won the highest award possible for such books, being named the “Best of the Best” by the American Library Association. Excerpts from his books are available on amazon.com.
This seminar is for students in grades 11 & 12 and their parents on Wednesday evenings, starting November 11, 2009 for one hour in GEP’s Greenwich office:
November 11
November 18
December 3
December 10
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