Gopen Writing Workshop at Duke: Writing from the Reader's Perspective

Professor George Gopen is the creator of the groundbreaking method known as The Reader Expectation Approach.  This technique allows writers to predict with great accuracy how most readers will interpret the writer’s text.  It therefore gives writers a new inroad to their own thinking process. This one-day workshop with Professor Gopen examines common writing flaws and demonstrates how to communicate with clarity and accuracy.  Professor Gopen’s approach to achieving desired results is stated simply: Readers take the majority of their clues for the interpretive process not from word choice nor from word meaning, but rather from the structural location of words.  Thus, where a word appears in a sentence will control most of the use to which that word will be put.  We all know this intuitively as readers.  Professor Gopen will make it conscious in us as writers.

When: Wednesday, May 10, 8am-5pm

Where: Bryan Center – Griffith Theater

Cost: $99

Registration:

• Online: learnmore.duke.edu/certificates/writing
• Phone: (919) 684-6259  (M-F  8-5)
• Registration Deadline: Noon, May 8, or until seats fill, whichever occurs first.