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Building Great Sentences: How to Write the Kinds of Sentences You Love to Read Brooks Landon
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)

Jan 16, 2013 - I write, therefore I am. I love reading novels where not only the story and characters are rich but the prose itself shimmers with power. A Sequence of Words Building great sentences depends on more than just stringing words together. It's like getting a What that book taught me is that you can be a fantastic prose writer, but your writing can still leave a reader dissatisfied. Literary as opposed to popular fiction—yes, there is a difference—are attuned to the pleasures of language, luxuriating in precise and lyrical writing, there's something perverse about fixating on sentences to the exclusion of things like character. Exploring the Writer's Craft - taught by Professor Brooks Landon from the University of Iowa 24 x 30 minute lectures on CD or DVD 1. Jul 5, 2011 - You've probably received catalogues in the mail advertising “Great Courses. Apr 19, 2014 - “Uh-huh” and “umm” are utterances that are ostensibly meaningless, but they do serve some kind of rhetorical strategy. Wood came in the form of a writing assignment. Learn how these easy-to-write sentences take you through increasingly specific sentence levels and how they clarify and embellish preceding phrases. But there is a certain heady joy in this type of writing too. €�Building Great Sentences: Exploring the Writer's Craft” is taught by Brooks Landon, who is listed as part of the faculty at the University of Iowa. Brooks Landon, Building Great Sentences: How to Write the Kinds of Sentences You Love to Read. €�When you're done,” he said, “print off your article, read it out loud, and then underline your best sentence.” Suddenly, it was no longer enough to tell the Instead, I held up each sentence-brick, ensuring it was strong enough to stand alone and yet able to click in nicely with the next one to build the road of a story. I love highlighting and underlining sentences in my books. There is such an energy in a well-written line. Oct 20, 2011 - Building Great Sentences. Mar 28, 2014 - The sentence, this reviewer wrote.