Building great sentences [videorecording] : exploring the writer's craft / The Teaching Company.
Landon, Brooks.; Teaching Company.
2008
PE1441 .L363 2008
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Title
Building great sentences [videorecording] : exploring the writer's craft / The Teaching Company.
Author
Landon, Brooks.
ISBN
1598034480 (set)
9781598034486 (set)
Publication Details
Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company, 2008.
Language
English
Description
4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guidebook (iv, 132 p. ; 19 cm.).
Call Number
PE1441 .L363 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification
808.042
Distributor No.
2368 Teaching Company
Summary
Great writing begins--and ends--with the sentence. Whether two words ("Jesus wept.") or 1,287 words (a sentence in William Faulkner's Absalom! Absalom!), sentences have the power to captivate, entertain, motivate, educate, and, most importantly, delight. Understanding the variety of ways to construct sentences, from the smallest clause to the longest sentence, is important to enhancing your appreciation of great writing and potentially improving your own. This course applies the sentence-oriented approach to studying writing and provides a larger context for what makes sentences great. Students investigate how to recognize the mechanics of sentences, how language works on thoughts and emotions, and learn basic strategies to sharpen their ability to recognize great sentences and make their own writing more effective.
Note
Course guidebook includes professor biography, statement of course scope, lecture outlines and notes, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliography.
Twenty-four lectures of thirty minutes each by Brooks Landon, Professor of English and Collegiate Fellow at the University of Iowa.
Credits
Producer, Jaimée M. Algret, Matt Costanza, Dan Shine ; editor, Dan Shine ; camera operators, Jon Leven, Tom Dooley, Jim Allen (et. al.) ; academic content supervisor, Kia Penso.
System Details Note
DVD.
Added Corporate Author
Teaching Company.
Holdings
Suppl.
Series
Great courses (DVD)
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Part 1: Disc 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
Disc 2. 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.

Part 2: Disc 3. 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
Disc 4. 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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