Building Great Sentences: Exploring the Writer's Craft
Building Great Sentences: Exploring the Writer's Craft is a series of videos instructed by Professor Brooks Landon, providing an understanding of the variety of ways to construct sentences. From the definition of a sentence to the impact of several sentences in sequence, the videos explain how sentences work and teach how to write better sentences by choosing proper words and putting them in right order. They discover how the facts, ideas, and feelings in a sentence lie beneath its words and organization. Furthermore, they discuss the impact of several sentences in sequence and see new possibilities of resonance and relationship among their rhythms and structures.
| 01. A Sequence of Words |
| 02. Grammar and Rhetoric |
| 03. Propositions and Meaning |
| 04. How Sentences Grow |
| 05. Adjectival Steps |
| 06. The Rhythm of Cumulative Syntax |
| 07. Direction of Modification |
| 08. Coordinate, Subordinate, and Mixed Patterns |
| 09. Coordinate Cumulative Sentences |
| 10. Subordinate and Mixed Cumulatives |
| 11. Prompts of Comparison |
| 12. Prompts of Explanation |
| 13. The Riddle of Prose Rhythm |
| 14. Cumulative Syntax to Create Suspense |
| 15. Degrees of Suspensiveness |
| 16. The Mechanics of Delay |
| 17. Prefab Patterns for Suspense |
| 18. Balanced Sentences and Balanced Forms |
| 19. The Rhythm of Twos |
| 20. The Rhythm of Threes |
| 21. Balanced Series and Serial Balances |
| 22. Master Sentences |
| 23. Sentences in Sequence |
| 24. Sentences and Prose Style |