Publications of George D Gopen :chronological combined bibtex listing:
Books
- Expectations: Teaching Writing from the Reader's Perspective. Longman Publishers, Pearson Education Division, 2004.
- A Sense of Structure: Writing From a Reader's Perspective. Longman Publishers, Pearson Education Division, 2004.
- Robert Henryson's Moral Fables. Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame UP; Edinburgh, Scotland: The Scottish Academic Press, 260 pp, 1987. (critical introduction, edition, translation, and annotations)
- Writing from a Legal Perspective. St. Paul: West Publishing Co., 225 pp, 1981.
Essays/Articles/Chapters in Books
- G.D. Gopen. "CCISSR (Color Coding for the Interpretation of Syntactic and Substantive Relationships): The Perfect Way to Teach Legal Writing.." The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute (2007)
- "Writing Clear and Effective Legal Prose: Lesson # 3: When to Use the Passive." Law Practice (August, 2006)
- "Writing Clear and Effective Legal Prose: Lesson # 2: How to Indicate to Your Reader the Most Important Words in a Sentence." Law Practice (June, 2006)
- "Writing Clear and Effective Legal Prose: Lesson # 1: "Where's the Beef?".." Law Practice 32.3 (April/May, 2006): 60-62.
- "A Tribute to Joseph Williams on the Occasion of His Being Presented with the Golden Pen Award by the Legal Writing Institute.." Journal of the Legal Writitng Institute (2006)
- G.D. Gopen. ""The Music of the Mind: Structure and Substance in William Morris's The Water of the Wondrous Isles."." Journal of William Morris Studies XVI (2005): 92-102.
- G.D. Gopen. ""The Phantom Narrator Revealed: Performing the Final Song of Schubert's Winterreise."." SSUSA Newsletter (the newsletter of The Schubert Society of the USA), 3 (2005): 6-8.
- G.D. Gopen. ""The Noble Style of Thomas Delony: Prose Rhythm as an Indication of Character."." Imaginaires: Le rhythme dans les litteratures de langue anglaise, Revue du Centre du Recherche sur L'Imaginaire, L'Identite et L'Interpretati dans les litteratures de langue anglaise. Rheims, France, 2005. 39-57.
- G.D. Gopen. "The Noble Style of Thomas Deloney: Prose Rhythm as an Indication of Character.." Imaginaries (2005) The Journal of the Centre du Recherche sur L'Imaginaire, L'Identite et L'Interpretation dans les Litteratures de Langue Anglaise, Rheims, France.
- "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]
- "The Music of T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets." Ars Lyrica XIII (Summer, 2003): 29-75.
- "The Professor and the Professionals: Teaching Writing to Lawyers and Judges." Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute I (1991): 79-92.
- "Legal Writing: A Bibliography." Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute 1 (1991): 93-122. co-compiled with Kary D. Smout
- "Controlling Contexts: Interpretation and Expert Testimony." American Speech 65 (1991): 323-33.
- "The Science of Scientific Writing." American Scientist 78 (1990): 550-8. 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
- "What's an Assignment Like You Doing in a Course Like This?: Writing To Learn Mathematics." College Math Journal 21 (1990): 2-19. Co-authored with David A. Smith of the Duke Mathematics Department. Earlier version appeared in Writing to Learn Mathematics, eds. Paul Connoly and Teresa Vilardi. New York: Teachers College Press (Columbia University), 1989, 209-28
- "Legal Writing from the Perspective of the Reader: An Approach That Works." New Jersey Law Journal (14 Dec. 1989): 8-9. 13-page ms
- "Theme and Variations: The Concept of Audience." Collective Wisdom: A Sourcebook of Lessons for Writing Teachers. Ed. Sondra J. Stang and Robert Wiltenburg. New York: Random House, 1988. 95-7.
- "Let the Buyer in Ordinary Course of Business Beware: Suggestions for Revising the Language of the Uniform Commercial Code." University of Chicago Law Review 54 (1987): 1178-1214.
- "The State of Legal Writing: Res Ipsa Loquitur." University of Michigan Law Review 86 (1987): 1201-1247. A slightly shorter version appears as a chapter in Writing in the Business Professions, ed. Myra Kogen (Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 1989), pp. 146-173
- "Private Grief into Public Action: The Rhetoric of John of Gaunt in Richard II." Studies in Philology 84 (1987): 338-62.
- "The Essential Seriousness of Robert Henryson's Moral Fables: A Study in Structure." Studies in Philology 82 (1985): 42-59.
- "The English Teacher and English Song: A Sequel." College English 47 (1985): 60-74. [abs]
- "Perceiving Structure: Teaching Writing at Law Schools." Harvard Law School Bulletin 35 (1984): 27-29.
- "Rhyme and Reason: Why the Study of Poetry Is the Best Preparation for the Study of Law." College English 46 (1984): 333-347.
- "Every Spring a New Haystack: A Method for the Annual Evaluation of New Composition Textbooks." Writing Program Administration 7 (1984): 17-25.
- "A Rare Book's Odyssey." Antiquarian Book Monthly Review 10 (1983): 52-55.
- "Prostitution and the Writing Consultant: A View of a View." Technical Communication: Perspectives for the Eighties. NASA Publication 2203, 1981. 621-7.
- "A Course in Composition for Pre-Law Students." Journal of Legal Education 29 (1978): 222-31.
- "A Question of Cash and Credit: Writing Programs at Law Schools." Journal of Contemporary Law 3 (1977): 191-200.
- Georges Dumezil. "Translation of Notes on the Cosmic Bestiary of the Edda and the Rig Veda." Gods of the Ancient Northmen (1959). Ed. Einar Haugen. Los Angeles: U of California P, 1973.
Book Reviews
- Review of Leah Ceccarelli's Shaping Science with Rhetoric: The Cases of Dobzhansky, Schrodinger, and Wilson. American Scientist (May-June 2002): 276-8.
- Review of Robert L. Kindrick's Henryson and the Medieval Arts of Rhetoric. Studies in the Age of Chaucer 17 (1995): 223-6.
- Review of John A. Alford's Piers Plowman: A Glossary of Legal Diction. Journal of English and Germanic Philology 89 (1990): 215-8.
- Review of Joseph A. Hornsby's Chaucer and the Law. Studies in the Age of Chaucer 11 (1989): 241-7.
- Review of Henrik Specht's Chaucer's Franklin in the Canterbury Tales. Journal of English and Germanic Philology 82 (1983): 436-9.