The Cooper Hill Stylebook : A Guide to Writing and Revision

Practical & user-friendly guide to accurate and persuasive writing. Simplifies grammar and editing. Cuts directly to writers’ most frequent errors. Every chapter is a self-contained lesson, with clear explanations, examples, and step-by-step short cuts to clear expression. Over 1000 exercises with answers & explanations to the answers found in no other handbook. Provides all the advantages & more of best-selling handbooks at half their price. Replicable systems turn high school and college students into independent learners and parents into master teachers. Ideal for high scores on the new SAT . Official text of the University of Mississippi Writing Program. This is the text of choice for above average high school English programs.

Unique topics include Heavy language, Incomplete and self-evident thoughts, Assertions and illustrations, Forms of repetition, Gilding the lily, Internal contradictions. Logical reasoning in arguments is structured around 29 types of rhetorical fallacies. Teaches when and how to use quotations in writing. MLA documentation models for every reference source, including up-to-the-minute electronic styles for Internet media. Examples are humorous and topical.

GREGORY HEYWORTH E-MAIL: HEYWORTH@OLEMISS.EDU UNIVERSITY,MISSISSIPPI

EDUCATION

2000 Ph.D. Comparative Literature, Princeton University
Major fields of concentration: Medieval to early
Renaissance, romance, rhetoric, classical influence
1991 B.A., M.A. English, Girton College, Cambridge
University, U.K.
1988 B.A. Comparative Literature, Columbia University

HONORS

Carleton Fellow, Princeton University
Doris Russell Scholar in English, Girton College, Cambridge
Harry Johnson Scholar, Columbia University

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2001 to date
Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Assistant Professor of English), University of Mississippi
1997 Milton (Lecturer, seminar leader), Princeton University
Shakespeare (Preceptor), Princeton University
1996 Renaissance Drama (Preceptor), Princeton University
1995 Shakespeare (Preceptor), Princeton University
1992 Advanced Problems in Translation (Lecturer),
Université de Poitiers in conjunction with Oregon State University
English Composition II, (Lecturer - Maître de Langues) Université de Poitiers
1991 Victorian Novel, (Lecturer - Maître de Langues) Université de Poitiers

PUBLICATIONS

The Cooper Hill Stylebook. With Rosette Liberman. 2nd ed. New Haven: Cooper Hill Press, 2005
"The Etymology of Romance/Roman and Novel/Novella." The Encyclopedia of the Novel. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998
"Love and Honor in Cligesse." Romania. 112. 2001
"Knight Work" a paper delivered at Sewanee Medieval Colloquium March 29, 1996
"Missing and Mending: Romeo and Juliet at Play in the Romance Chronotope." Yearbook of English Studies. 30. 2000
"Perceval and the Seeds of Culture: Leisure, Work and Profit in the Prologue of Le Conte del Graal." Neophilologus. 84. 2000
The Writing and Revision Stylebook. With Rosette Liberman. New Haven: Cooper Hill Press, 2000

PERSONAL DATA

Born in Sharon, CT

Married
Foreign languages: French, Spanish, German — fluent Russian — good
Reading knowledge of Latin, Greek, Old French, Occitan,
Old and Middle English, Anglo-Saxon, Old Norse

Rosette B. Liberman

EDUCATION
Ed.D. University of Bridgeport, College of Business and Public Management
M.A. Vassar College
B.A. Barnard College

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND CERTIFICATION

During my forty years in education, I have held a variety of teaching and administrative positions at every level from nursery school through university. For the past twenty years, I have been teaching high school English in Connecticut Region 5 and freshman writing in the University of Connecticut Co-op Program.

PUBLICATIONS

The Cooper Hill Stylebook. With Gregory Heyworth. 2nd ed. New Haven: Cooper Hill Press, 2005
"Section 504: The First Decade." Capitalizing on the Future. AHHSSPPE, 1987.
Guide to Decision-Making in Compliance with Section 504. New Haven: Yale

University Resource Office for Disabilities, 1987.
"Foreign Languages and Humanistic Learning." The Liberal Arts in a Time of Crisis.
Ed. Barbara Ann Scott. New York: Praeger, 1991.
"Kaddish." Connecticut English Journal 24 Fall 1997: 73.
The Writing and Revision Stylebook. With Gregory Heyworth. New Haven, London: Cooper Hill Press, 2000.

HONORS AND AWARDS
Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers . 1992, 1996, 2002, 2004
Celebration of Excellence Award from the Connecticut State Department of Education, 1996
Connecticut State Board of Education Award for Service on The Connecticut Permanent Advisory Council on the Teaching Profession, 1990
Dissertation Award from Indiana University and the National Organization on Legal Problems in Education (NOLPE), 1987

PERSONAL DATA
Foreign Languages: Russian, French, Spanish, Farsi