Building Great Sentences: Exploring the Writer's Craft - The Teaching Company (The Great Courses, Course #2368) - ISBN:1598034472

Building Great Sentences: Exploring the Writer's Craft - The Teaching Company (The Great Courses, Course #2368)

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More Than Just a String of Words
Building Great Sentences revives the sentence-oriented approach to studying writing. Unlike common nuts-and-bolts approaches to discussing writing, this course provides a greater context for what makes sentences great. You investigate how to recognize the mechanics of the sentences you read and write, you learn how language works on your thoughts and emotions, and you discover basic strategies to sharpen your ability to recognize great sentences and make your own everyday writing more effective.
More than just a string of words, "sentences are shaped by specific context and driven by specific purpose," notes Professor Landon. "No 'rules' or mechanical protocols can prepare us for the infinite number of tasks our sentences must accomplish."
Course Lecture Titles
* 1. A Sequence of Words
* 2. Grammar and Rhetoric
* 3. Propositions and Meaning
* 4. How Sentences Grow
* 5. Adjectival Steps
* 6. The Rhythm of Cumulative Syntax
* 7. Direction of Modification
* 8. Coordinate, Subordinate, and Mixed Patterns
* 9. Coordinate Cumulative Sentences
* 10. Subordinate and Mixed Cumulatives
* 11. Prompts of Comparison
* 12. Prompts of Explanation
* 13. The Riddle of Prose Rhythm
* 14. Cumulative Syntax to Create Suspense
* 15. Degrees of Suspensiveness
* 16. The Mechanics of Delay
* 17. Prefab Patterns for Suspense
* 18. Balanced Sentences and Balanced Forms
* 19. The Rhythm of Twos
* 20. The Rhythm of Threes
* 21. Balanced Series and Serial Balances
* 22. Master Sentences
* 23. Sentences in Sequence
* 24. Sentences and Prose Style

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