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Building Great Sentences: Exploring the Writer's Craft

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Explore how to improve your writing by mastering the art of the sentence in this comprehensive course taught by an award-winning professor.

Syllabus

  • 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
  • By This Professor

Taught by

Brooks Landon

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3.8 rating at The Great Courses Plus based on 338 ratings

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