Building great sentences : exploring the writer's craft / Brooks Landon.
By: Landon, Brooks
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Contributor(s): Teaching Company.
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BookSeries: The great courses. Literature & English language.Publisher: Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Co., c2008Description: vi, 410p.2 v. ; 21 cm.ISBN: 1598034499 (pbk.).Subject(s): English language -- Sentences -- Study and teaching | English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Item holds |
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General Stacks | Non-fiction | PE1441 .L33 2008 (Browse shelf) | Available | JM |
"Course No. 2368"
"Lecture transcript and course guidebook"--Cover.
Includes bibliographical references
Pt. 1. Lecture 1. A sequence of words -- Lecture 2. Grammar and rhetoric -- Lecture 3. Propositions and meaning -- Lecture 4. How sentences grow -- Lecture 5. Adjectival steps -- Lecture 6. The rhythm of cumulative syntax -- Lecture 7. Direction of modification -- Lecture 8. Coordinate, subordinate, and mixed patterns -- Lecture 9. Coordinate cumulative sentences -- Lecture 10. Subordinate and mixed cumulatives -- Lecture 11. Prompts of comparison -- Lecture 12. Prompts of explanation.
Pt. 2. Lecture 13. The riddle of prose rhythm -- Lecture 14. Cumulative syntax to create suspense -- Lecture 15. Degrees of suspensiveness -- Lecture 16. The mechanics of delay -- Lecture 17. Prefab patterns for suspense -- Lecture 18. Balanced sentences and balanced forms -- Lecture 19. The rhythm of twos -- Lecture 20. The rhythm of threes -- Lecture 21. Balanced series and serial balances -- Lecture 22. Master sentences -- Lecture 23. Sentences in sequence -- Lecture 24. Sentences and prose style.
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