Explore how to improve your writing by mastering the art of the sentence in this comprehensive course taught by an award-winning professor.
Building Great Sentences: Exploring the Writer's Craft
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: A Sequence of Words
- 02: Grammar and Rhetoric
- 03: Propositions and Meaning
- 04: How Sentences Grow
- 05: Adjectival Steps
- 06: The Rhythm of Cumulative Syntax
- 07: Direction of Modification
- 08: Coordinate, Subordinate, and Mixed Patterns
- 09: 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
Taught by
Brooks Landon
