What is The King’s English?

The King’s English is a comprehensive approach to writing and speaking. The King’s College seeks to prepare students to influence the key institutions of our society. To do that, graduates need to be able to write with force and clarity and to engage the minds and imaginations of readers. They also need to be able to speak eloquently in all the contexts in which speech matters, from one-on-one conversations to formal speeches before large audiences and television cameras. We believe that most American schools do an inadequate job in teaching students to write, and an even worse job in teaching students to speak. As a result, we have developed a distinctive program that is part of almost every course in the College and that teaches students a style of writing and speaking we call imaginative realism. The written and the spoken word were once the foundational discipline of higher education everywhere. In effect, we aim to restore that tradition by teaching students that clear and compelling writing and speech can be rooted in both love of truth and delight in metaphor.

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