Trivium 101: Writing Truthfully: An Introduction to the Trivium
Trivium 101: Writing Truthfully: An Introduction to the Trivium serves as a formal introduction to the life of liberal arts study, and trains students to read and write analytically. Students give special focus to the key logical skills necessary for good writing; they study and practice the three rhetorical appeals of logos, ethos, and pathos; and they focus on the structure of the formal essay. Students also learn the basic principles of Invention and Arrangement: how to discover arguments and different ways of ordering these arguments to a reading audience.
Through this three credit course students write four papers and four imitation assignments, a lot of writing but don't fear too much. They're short papers, mostly, and there's no final for this class.
Texts Used[edit]
- Crider, The Office of Assertion
- Selected great essays, poems, and speeches