Authors: Church, A. P.¹; Sigrell, Anders²

Source: Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, Volume 49, Number 5, 01Nov2005 , pp. 543-556(14)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:

Recently, scholars of rhetoric and composition have shown much interest in the ancient composition exercises known as progymnasmata . This paper explains how these exercises, which provided ancient students with a transitional curriculum between grammar and rhetoric, have theoretical and practical merit for contemporary compositional pedagogy. It demonstrates how progymnasmata has helped educators in Texas and Sweden introduce their transitional and developmental students to a complete system of rhetorical instruction, one that gives them practice developing a repertoire of possible strategies for achieving copiousness and the means of making reasonable and persuasive choices in their writing.

Keywords: Progymnasmata; Rhetorical exercises; Transitional students; Writing education

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00313830500319050

Affiliations: 1: University of Texas at Brownsville 2: Umeå University, Sweden

Publication date: 2005-11-01

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