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• Writing is a complex process, a learned art that stems from having something to say and learning to say it well. This requires more than just creative energy; it requires mastering specific skills. After all, writing is at the confluence of our humanity, where our desires and foibles meet our cultures and histories. Masterful writing endures, because it highlights not only its own times, but ours as well.
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• For more than 2,500 years, the study of writing was more than rote drills in grammar. Learning to write well included extensive reading of literature and formal training in public speaking. Great writers and orators came from this holistic approach to writing, but in the mid-1800s this was tragically destroyed when literature and public speaking were cut away from composition, and each part studied and taught as a discipline of its own -- as if examining each discrete part under the academic microscope could yield the secrets of the whole? As usual, dissection killed the frog.

• Masterful writing can only be the product of wholeness, an understanding of the tools of language and how they have been used by the masters. To write well, we must return to the study of composition, literature, and public speaking as a whole, and in your studies with us, you will learn to use all the tools of language to forge the essential bonds between what you wish to say and how you wish to say it.
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• Interestingly enough, as you learn to recognize and apply the tools of the masters to your work, you will also learn to recognize when those tools are being used in the writing and speech of others. Of course you wish to persuade your audience to read your work or to listen to your speech, but do you recognize when you are being persuaded? And how you're being persuaded?
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• Join us. Let's resuscitate the frog.