Building Great Sentences

2013-06-25
Building Great Sentences

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  • Author: Brooks Landon
  • Publisher: Penguin
  • ISBN: 1101614021
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 288

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.

It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences

2010-07-27
It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences

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  • Author: June Casagrande
  • Publisher: Ten Speed Press
  • ISBN: 1580083781
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 226

In this wickedly humorous manual, language columnist June Casagrande uses grammar and syntax to show exactly what makes some sentences great—and other sentences suck. Great writing isn’t born, it’s built—sentence by sentence. But too many writers—and writing guides—overlook this most important unit. The result? Manuscripts that will never be published and writing careers that will never begin. With chapters on “Conjunctions That Kill” and “Words Gone Wild,” this lighthearted guide is perfect for anyone who’s dead serious about writing, from aspiring novelists to nonfiction writers, conscientious students to cheeky literati. So roll up your sleeves and prepare to craft one bold, effective sentence after another. Your readers will thank you.

Reading Like a Writer

2012-04-01
Reading Like a Writer

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  • Author: Francine Prose
  • Publisher: Union Books
  • ISBN: 1908526149
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 304

DIV In her entertaining and edifying New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Francine Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and tricks of the masters to discover why their work has endured. Written with passion, humour and wisdom, Reading Like a Writer will inspire readers to return to literature with a fresh eye and an eager heart – to take pleasure in the long and magnificent sentences of Philip Roth and the breathtaking paragraphs of Isaac Babel; to look to John le Carré for a lesson in how to advance plot through dialogue and to Flannery O’Connor for the cunning use of the telling detail; to be inspired by Emily Brontë’s structural nuance and Charles Dickens’s deceptively simple narrative techniques. Most importantly, Prose cautions readers to slow down and pay attention to words, the raw material out of which all literature is crafted, and reminds us that good writing comes out of good reading. /div

Making Better Sentences

2013-06-20
Making Better Sentences

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  • Author: Rebecca Vickers
  • Publisher: Raintree
  • ISBN: 140626895X
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages :

When Good People Write Bad Sentences

2013-08-27
When Good People Write Bad Sentences

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  • Author: Robert W. Harris
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
  • ISBN: 1466852321
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 224

At last, help for writers who can admit they have a problem. Do you get a lift by dangling a participle? Has your punctuation ever caused difficulties at home or at work? Do you consider yourself just a "social misspeller?" These are just a few of the warning signs that you might have an addiction to bad writing. But fear not. This practical guide to eliminating bad writing habits will put you on the path to recovery. Filled with accessible advice and examples, this "powerful 12-step program" identifies the most common writing mistakes and offers simple ways to correct them. Here, you can learn to overcome wordiness, formality, incompleteness, and other problems that stand in the way of clear communication. And as you learn to eliminate ineffective sentences, you'll be "writing off" jargon, mixed metaphors, clichés, and more. The advice in this ingenious and useful book has helped Tom G., Martha D., and Cathy W.* write more clearly, confidently, and persuasively. It can do the same for you - whether you write for school, work, or pleasure. If you've tried other programs, only to fall back on bad habits, let Standard English be your guide. This book will show you how. Get ready to improve your writing skills - one sentence at a time. *their real names

Several Short Sentences About Writing

2013-04-09
Several Short Sentences About Writing

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  • Author: Verlyn Klinkenborg
  • Publisher: Vintage
  • ISBN: 0307279413
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 226

An indispensable and distinctive book that will help anyone who wants to write, write better, or have a clearer understanding of what it means for them to be writing, from widely admired writer and teacher Verlyn Klinkenborg. Klinkenborg believes that most of our received wisdom about how writing works is not only wrong but an obstacle to our ability to write. In Several Short Sentences About Writing, he sets out to help us unlearn that “wisdom”—about genius, about creativity, about writer’s block, topic sentences, and outline—and understand that writing is just as much about thinking, noticing, and learning what it means to be involved in the act of writing. There is no gospel, no orthodoxy, no dogma in this book. Instead it is a gathering of starting points in a journey toward lively, lucid, satisfying self-expression.

How to Write a Sentence

2011-01-25
How to Write a Sentence

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  • Author: Stanley Fish
  • Publisher: Harper Collins
  • ISBN: 0062006851
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 180

New York Times Bestseller “Both deeper and more democratic than The Elements of Style” —Adam Haslett, Financial Times “A guided tour through some of the most beautiful, arresting sentences in the English language.” —Slate In this entertaining and erudite gem, world-class professor and New York Times columnist Stanley Fish offers both sentence craft and sentence pleasure, skills invaluable to any writer (or reader). Like a seasoned sportscaster, Fish marvels at the adeptness of finely crafted sentences and breaks them down into digestible morsels, giving readers an instant play-by-play. Drawing on a wide range of great writers, from Philip Roth to Antonin Scalia to Jane Austen, How to Write a Sentence is much more than a writing manual—it is a spirited love letter to the written word, and a key to understanding how great writing works. It is a book that will stand the test of time.

Making Better Sentences

2013
Making Better Sentences

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  • Author: Rebecca Vickers
  • Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
  • ISBN: 1432976540
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 58

Introduces the basics of sentence construction, addressing such topics as sentence types, clauses, and phrases.

Building Writing Skills: Words to Sentences

2010-07
Building Writing Skills: Words to Sentences

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  • Author: Kathy Crane
  • Publisher: Building Writing Skills
  • ISBN: 9781420632477
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

Writing is an active process that helps students develop higher order thinking skills. The practical yet fun-filled writing strategies in this series encourage students to expand their thinking processes and transform their thinking and reading skills into written words. This isnt just another set of writing lessons. Its a well-developed strategic plan peppered with fresh ideas and surprising activities that inspire students to do their best!

Better Sentence Writing in 30 Minutes a Day

1995-01-01
Better Sentence Writing in 30 Minutes a Day

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  • Author: Dianna Campbell
  • Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
  • ISBN: 1564142035
  • Category : Reference
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 226

Better Sentence Writing in 30 Minutes a Day features clear discussions of rules and strategies for good writing. Concise explanations and an abundance of exercises reinforce the skills necessary for strong written communication. From filling in the blanks to joining short sentences into longer and more graceful combinations, this book will improve all writing capabilities. An answer key in the back encourages self-paced learning.