Building great sentences : exploring the writer's craft
(DVD)
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Published
Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company, 2008.
Format
DVD
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook.
Status
Southside - Media
DVD 808.042 Lan
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DVD 808.042 Lan
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Published
Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company, 2008.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Course guidebook includes professor biography, statement of course scope, lecture outlines and notes, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliography.
Creation/Production 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.
Participants/Performers
Twenty-four lectures of thirty minutes each by Brooks Landon, Professor of English and Collegiate Fellow at the University of Iowa.
Description
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.
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DVD format.
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