Building Great Sentences: How to Write the Kinds of Sentences You Love to Read
| AUTHOR | Landon, Brooks; Landon, Brooks |
| PUBLISHER | Plume Books (06/25/2013) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Paperback (Paperback) |
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Based on the bestselling series from The Great Courses, Building Great Sentences celebrates the sheer joy of language--and will forever change the way you read and write. Great writing begins with the sentence. Whether it's two words ("Jesus wept.") or William Faulkner's 1,287-word sentence in Absalom Absalom , sentences have the power to captivate, entertain, motivate, educate, and, most importantly, delight. Yet, the sentence-oriented approach to writing is too often overlooked in favor of bland economy. Building Great Sentences teaches you to write better sentences by luxuriating in the pleasures of language. Award-winning Professor Brooks Landon draws on examples from masters of long, elegant sentences--including Don DeLillo, Virginia Woolf, Joan Didion, and Samuel Johnson--to reveal the mechanics of how language works on thoughts and emotions, providing the tools to write powerful, more effective sentences.
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ISBN-13:
9780452298606
ISBN-10:
0452298601
Binding:
Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language:
English
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Page Count:
288
Carton Quantity:
64
Product Dimensions:
5.36 x 0.61 x 7.96 inches
Weight:
0.47 pound(s)
Feature Codes:
Index,
Price on Product - Canadian,
Price on Product,
Table of Contents
Country of Origin:
US
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BISAC Categories
Language Arts & Disciplines | Style Manuals
Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing - General
Language Arts & Disciplines | Literacy
Grade Level:
College Freshman
and up
Dewey Decimal:
808.042
Library of Congress Control Number:
2012051011
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Based on the bestselling series from The Great Courses, Building Great Sentences celebrates the sheer joy of language--and will forever change the way you read and write. Great writing begins with the sentence. Whether it's two words ("Jesus wept.") or William Faulkner's 1,287-word sentence in Absalom Absalom , sentences have the power to captivate, entertain, motivate, educate, and, most importantly, delight. Yet, the sentence-oriented approach to writing is too often overlooked in favor of bland economy. Building Great Sentences teaches you to write better sentences by luxuriating in the pleasures of language. Award-winning Professor Brooks Landon draws on examples from masters of long, elegant sentences--including Don DeLillo, Virginia Woolf, Joan Didion, and Samuel Johnson--to reveal the mechanics of how language works on thoughts and emotions, providing the tools to write powerful, more effective sentences.
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