George D. Gopen, Professor of the Practice

Education:

• Ph.D., Harvard University, 1975
• J.D., Harvard University, 1972
• B.A., Brandeis University, 1967

Research Interests:
Reader Expectation Theory and Henryson


Representative Publications   (More Publications)

• Gopen, GD. Expectations: Teaching Writing from the Reader’s Perspective.  Longman Publishers, Pearson Education Division, 2004 .
• Gopen, GD. A Sense of Structure: Writing From a Reader’s Perspective.  Longman Publishers, Pearson Education Division, 2004 .
• GOPEN, GD; SWAN, JA. "THE SCIENCE OF SCIENTIFIC WRITING." AMERICAN SCIENTIST 78.6 (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]
• 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]
• Gopen, GD. "The Music of T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets." Ars Lyrica XIII (Summer, 2003): 29-75.