The Teaching Company: Building Great Sentences: Exploring the Writer's Craft

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.

Why do some lengthy sentences flow effortlessly while others stumble along?
Why are you captivated by the writing of particular authors but not others?
How can you craft sentences that reflect your own unique outlook on the world?
Get the answers to these and other questions about writing and style in Building Great Sentences: Exploring the Writer's Craft, a lively 24-lecture course taught by Professor Brooks Landon from the University of Iowa—one of the nation's top writing schools. You explore the myriad ways in which we think about, talk about, and write sentences. You discover insights into what makes for pleasurable reading. You also learn how you can apply these methods to your own writing.

Visit our website at www.TEACH12.com/YouTube for other Great Courses taught by Great Professors.

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[mrfatd]

awesome stuff, i love ttc, post more vids!!

[robertjsawyer]

This is an absolutely fabulous course. Landon is wonderfully pleasant to listen to, and his points are fascinating. (I bought the audio version of this course.) -- Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author of HOMINIDS

[cannoir]

@jo11111 it is supposed to lmao! economy of words baby

[jo11111]

I don't know. This is super super brainy. Writing is a gut thing. This feels like algebra to me.

[charleshoskinson]

@BlueDotVideos Simply put, the ability to communicate in a clear, concise- yet effective- way provides us with better opportunities for both women and treasure. The sentence, and its underlying propositions, are the core building block of written communication and hence are the vehicle upon which one can accomplish their rhetorical goals.

[13katrianna]

@Soulquarium if you're hellbent on showing your intellectual superiority you might want to know anafora is spelled anaphora.

[9RidgeProductions]

The audio download from The Teaching Company is only $35 and well worth it for anyone who loves language

[Soulquarium]

@BlueDotVideos People who value their education, which in turn createst more opportunities for people in the workplace, which in turn, genrally speaking, allows for more money making opportunities to support you're family.

[BlueDotVideos]

seriously?? SOmeone actually makes a program on how to build great sentences?? these courses cost like 200 bucks!! why the HELL would you spend that much to learn how to talk like a smart-ass snob?? Get a life, seriously. this is horrible. who wants this stuff???????

[azharoslan]

@flaskofcoffee verbal masturbation! haha nice!

[Soulquarium]

@flaskofcoffee I absolutely love verbal masturbation. I love being able to use words like anafora and epistrophy to some of my fellow colleagues, who have no idea what I'm talking about. It makes me feel good when I can show my intellectual prowess over inferior individuals.

[Soulquarium]

"And the fact that each clause starts with the same words exploits the classic rhetorical trope of anafora."  Brillant!