| Building Great Sentences: How to Write the Kinds of Sentences You Love to Read Contributor(s): Landon, Brooks (Author) |
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ISBN: 0452298601 ISBN-13: 9780452298606 Publisher: Plume Books OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Style Manuals - Language Arts & Disciplines | Writing - General - Language Arts & Disciplines | Literacy |
| Dewey: 808.042 |
| LCCN: 2012051011 |
| Series: Great Courses |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 5.36" W x 7.96" (0.47 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |