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Building Great Sentences: Exploring the Writer's Craft

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Languages

English
Effort

12 hours 20 minutes
Sessions

Self-Paced
Level

Intermediate

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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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