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Author Landon, Brooks.

Title Building great sentences : exploring the writer's craft / Brooks Landon.

Publication Info. Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., [2008]
©2008

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Location Call No. Status
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  GREAT COURSES 808.042 BUILDING    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Audio-Visual Materials  GC 808.042 LAV DISC 1-4    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Media Room  DVD 808.042 LANDON  PT. 1    Missing +1 HOLD
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Media Room  DVD 808.042 LANDON  PT. 2    Check Shelf
Edition Library edition.
Description 4 videodiscs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks.
Series The great courses. Literature & English language
Great courses (DVD)
System Details DVD.
Note "Course No. 2368"
Performer Taught by Prof. Brooks Landon, University of Iowa.
Contents Pt. 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 -- 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.
Pt. 2. 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 -- 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.
Note GMD: videorecording.
Subject English language -- Rhetoric.
Linguistics.
Added Author Teaching Company.
ISBN 1598034480 Pt. 1
9781598034486 Pt. 1
1598034480 Pt. 2
9781598034486 Pt. 2
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