Unlock Writing Success
with Gopen’s REA Training
Join tens of thousands of professionals around the world who are trained in Gopen’s Reader Expectation Approach, amounting to transformed careers, stable institutions, and billions in funding.
Dr. George Gopen’s instructor-led training programs can be delivered in a variety of formats — from live seminars and e-learning for foundational core curriculum to more advanced immersive workshops. Individual consultations are also an option for specific high-stakes projects. These instructional formats can be combined and customized to meet your educational goals.
You’re invited to explore the detailed offerings listed below. To discuss which training options can best support your talented team, please request a complimentary 20-minute discovery call by completing the form on our booking page. We will contact you within three business days.
Prerequisite Not Required
Live Seminars: Introducing Gopen’s Reader Expectation Approach to Writing
Prerequisite: None
Participants: Audience size can range up to about 600 participants; the ideal size is 12–24.
Structure: An instructor-led training session that includes guided exercises. This lecture-based introductory session lays the foundation for intensive study in the REA principles.
Focus: Lecture presentation focused on reader expectations and sentence/paragraph structure with practice exercises that include writings in relevant disciplines.
Learning Outcomes: The information presented will provide immediate possibilities for dramatic improvement in the clarity of participants’ writing. Attendance prepares learners for participation in the intensive workshop.
Time: Customizable 8‑hour, 12‑hour, and 16‑hour seminars.
Prerequisite Required
Workshops: Mastering Gopen’s Reader Expectation Approach
Prerequisite: available for those who have attended the seminar or viewed the first seven episodes of the 12‑episode E‑Learning series.
Participants: Limited to three (3) per session
Structure: Instructor-led small-group workshop sessions offer immersion in advanced REA practice with analyses of each person’s stylistic habits.
Focus: Workshops allow individualized attention to a small group (three participants), with discovery of shared reader-expectation problems, and discovery of each participants other habitual issues.
Learning Outcomes: Individualized training builds upon the principles learned in the seminar or eLearning series to help writers revise their styles permanently and better control readers’ interpretive processes.
Time: 2.5 hours per session; up to three sessions per day are possible (maximum nine participants per day).
Prerequisite Not Required
E-Learning: Gopen’s Reader Expectation Approach to Writing in the English Language (12-Part Series)
Participants: Unlimited, but one at a time.
Structure: Self-paced online introductory training program which lays the foundation for intensive study in the REA principles.
Focus: Lecture presentation focused on reader expectations and sentence/paragraph structure with practice exercises that include multidisciplinary writings.
Learning Outcomes:The information presented will provide immediate possibilities for dramatic improvement in the clarity of participants’ writing. Episodes 1—7 serve as preparation for participation in the intensive workshop.
Time: 15.5 hours (the first 7 episodes qualify as prerequisite credit.)
Prerequisite Not Required
Consultation: Applying Gopen’s Reader Expectation Approach to the Production of a Single Important Document
Participants: 1
Structure: One-on-one writing consultations.
Focus: Dr. Gopen is also available for one‑on‑one consultations, which are especially helpful for individuals with high‑stakes projects such as major grant proposals, tenure dossiers, etc.
Learning Outcomes: The outcome is a refined version of this important document with maximized possibilities for success.
Time: Negotiable
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