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Publications of George D. Gopen    :chronological  alphabetical  combined  bibtex listing:

Books

  1. Gopen, GD. A Sense of Structure: Writing From a Reader’s Perspective. Longman Publishers, Pearson Education Division, 2004.
  2. Gopen, GD. Expectations: Teaching Writing from the Reader’s Perspective. Longman Publishers, Pearson Education Division, 2004.
  3. Gopen, GD. 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)
  4. Gopen, GD. Writing from a Legal Perspective. St. Paul: West Publishing Co., 225 pp, 1981.

Essays/Articles/Chapters in Books

  1. Gopen, GD. "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)
  2. Gopen, GD. "Writing Clear and Effective Legal Prose: Lesson # 3: When to Use the Passive." Law Practice  (August, 2006)
  3. Gopen, GD. "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)
  4. Gopen, GD. "Writing Clear and Effective Legal Prose: Lesson # 1: "Where’s the Beef?".." Law Practice 32.3 (April, 2006): 60-62.
  5. Gopen, GD. "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)
  6. 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.
  7. 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]
  8. Gopen, GD. "The Noble Style of Thomas Deloney: Prose Rhythm as an Indication of Character.." Imaginaries  (2005)
  9. Gopen, GD. ""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.
  10. Gopen, GD. ""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.
  11. Gopen, GD. ""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.
  12. Gopen, GD. "The Music of T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets." Ars Lyrica XIII (Summer, 2003): 29-75.
  13. Gopen, GD. "Review of Leah Ceccarelli’s Shaping Science with Rhetoric: The Cases of Dobzhansky, Schrodinger, and Wilson." American Scientist  (May, 2002): 276-8.
  14. Gopen, GD. "Review of Robert L. Kindrick’s Henryson and the Medieval Arts of Rhetoric." Studies in the Age of Chaucer 17 (1995): 223-6.
  15. Gopen, GD. "Controlling Contexts: Interpretation and Expert Testimony." American Speech 65 (1991): 323-33.
  16. Gopen, GD. "Legal Writing: A Bibliography." Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute 1 (1991): 93-122.  co-compiled with Kary D. Smout
  17. Gopen, GD. "The Professor and the Professionals: Teaching Writing to Lawyers and Judges." Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute I (1991): 79-92.
  18. 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]
  19. Gopen, GD. "Review of John A. Alford’s Piers Plowman: A Glossary of Legal Diction." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 89 (1990): 215-8.
  20. Gopen, GD. "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
  21. GOPEN, GD. "'PIERS PLOWMAN' - A GLOSSARY OF LEGAL DICTION - ALFORD,JA." JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND GERMANIC PHILOLOGY 89.2 (1990): 215-218. [Gateway.cgi]
  22. Gopen, GD. "Legal Writing from the Perspective of the Reader: An Approach That Works." New Jersey Law Journal  (December, 1989): 8-9.  13-page ms
  23. Gopen, GD. "Review of Joseph A. Hornsby’s Chaucer and the Law." Studies in the Age of Chaucer 11 (1989): 241-7.
  24. Gopen, GD. "Theme and Variations: The Concept of Audience." Collective Wisdom: A Sourcebook of Lessons for Writing Teachers. Ed. Stang, SJ; Wiltenburg, R. New York: Random House, 1988. 95-7.
  25. "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.
  26. Gopen, GD. "The State of Legal Writing: Res Ipsa Loquitur." University of Michigan Law Review 86.2JSTOR, (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 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  27. Gopen, GD. "Let the Buyer in the Ordinary Course of Business Beware: Suggestions for Revising the Prose of the Uniform Commercial Code." The University of Chicago Law Review 54.4JSTOR, (1987): 1178-1178. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  28. GOPEN, GD. "PRIVATE GRIEF INTO PUBLIC ACTION + SHAKESPEARE - THE RHETORIC OF JOHN-OF-GAUNT IN 'RICHARD II'." STUDIES IN PHILOLOGY 84.3 (1987): 338-362. [Gateway.cgi]
  29. Gopen, GD. "The English Teacher and English Song: A Sequel." College English 47.8National Council of Teachers of English, (December, 1985): 856-856. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  30. Gopen, GD. "The English Teacher and English Song: A Sequel." College English 47 (1985): 60-74.  [abs]
  31. GOPEN, GD. "THE ESSENTIAL SERIOUSNESS OF HENRYSON,ROBERT 'MORAL FABLES' - A STUDY IN STRUCTURE." STUDIES IN PHILOLOGY 82.1 (1985): 42-59. [Gateway.cgi]
  32. Gopen, GD. "Rhyme and Reason: Why the Study of Poetry Is the Best Preparation for the Study of Law." College English 46.4National Council of Teachers of English, (April, 1984): 333-333. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  33. Gopen, GD. "Every Spring a New Haystack: A Method for the Annual Evaluation of New Composition Textbooks." Writing Program Administration 7 (1984): 17-25.
  34. Gopen, GD. "Perceiving Structure: Teaching Writing at Law Schools." Harvard Law School Bulletin 35 (1984): 27-29.
  35. Gopen, GD. "Review of Henrik Specht’s Chaucer’s Franklin in the Canterbury Tales." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 82 (1983): 436-9.
  36. Gopen, GD. "A Rare Book’s Odyssey." Antiquarian Book Monthly Review 10 (1983): 52-55.
  37. GOPEN, GD. "CHAUCER FRANKLIN IN THE 'CANTERBURY TALES' - THE SOCIAL AND LITERARY BACKGROUND OF A CHAUCERIAN CHARACTER - SPECHT,H." JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND GERMANIC PHILOLOGY 82.3 (1983): 436-439. [Gateway.cgi]
  38. Gopen, GD. "Prostitution and the Writing Consultant: A View of a View." Technical Communication: Perspectives for the Eighties. NASA Publication 2203, 1981. 621-7.
  39. GOPEN, GD. "COMPOSITION COURSE FOR PRE-LAW STUDENTS." JOURNAL OF LEGAL EDUCATION 29.2J LEGAL EDUCATION, (January, 1978): 222-231. [Gateway.cgi]
  40. Gopen, GD. "A Course in Composition for Pre-Law Students." Journal of Legal Education 29 (1978): 222-31.
  41. "A Question of Cash and Credit: Writing Programs at Law Schools." Journal of Contemporary Law 3 (1977): 191-200.
  42. Dumezil, G. "Translation of Notes on the Cosmic Bestiary of the Edda and the Rig Veda." Gods of the Ancient Northmen (1959). Ed. Haugen, E. Los Angeles: U of California P, 1973. 
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