George D. Gopen  
Professor of the Practice Emeritus

Office Location: 3415 Stoneybrook Drive, Durham, NC 27705
Office Phone: +1 919 641 1122
Email Address: ggopen@duke.edu
Web Page: http://GeorgeGopen.com

Office Hours:

call 919-384-7175

Education:

Ph.D., Harvard University

J.D., Harvard University

B.A., Brandeis University
Specialties:

Writing
British Literature

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

  1. Gopen, GD. Expectations: Teaching Writing from the Reader’s Perspective. Longman Publishers, Pearson Education Division, 2004.
  2. Gopen, GD. A Sense of Structure: Writing From a Reader’s Perspective. Longman Publishers, Pearson Education Division, 2004.
  3. GOPEN, GD; SWAN, JA. "THE SCIENCE OF SCIENTIFIC WRITING." AMERICAN SCIENTIST 78.6SIGMA XI-SCI RES SOC, (November, 1990): 550-558.  Co-authored with biochemist Judith Swan. Reprinted in Exploring Animal Behavior, eds. Paul W. Sherman and John Alcock (Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates, Inc., 1993). Japanese translation: Yosuke Kawachi, A Collection of Geological Sample Sentences: A Guide for Scientific Writing, pp. 293-313 (1994). Spanish translation: "La Cienca de los Escritos Cientificos," tr. Dr. Victor W. Gonzalez Lauck; Publicacion Especial Num. 3; Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales Y Agropecunarias; Campo Experimental Huimanguillo; Cadenas, Tabasco, Mexico (1995). Second Spanish translation: "La Ciencia de la Escritura Cientifica," tr. Jorge R. Talbot, for the June 1996 Conference of the Fundacion de Investigaciones Metabolicas, Buenos Aires, Argentina [Gateway.cgi]
  4. Gopen, GD. "Why So Many Bright Students and So Many Dull Papers?: Peer Responded Journals as a Partial Solution to the Problem of Fake Audience."." The WAC journal 16 (2005): 22-48.  An article on the use of peer-responded journals in college courses in any discipline. [pdf]
  5. Gopen, GD. "The Music of T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets." Ars Lyrica XIII (Summer, 2003): 29-75.