The Great Courses - BUILDING GREAT SENTENCES - 4 DVD & Book Set - Pre Owned

The Great Courses - "Building Great Sentences: Exploring the Writer's Craft - Professor Brooks Landon. 24 lectures on 4 DVDs, 30-minutes per lecture and 132 Page Study Guide. ---- This course is very extensive, covering so many areas, enriching views, and showing many ways how you can craft suspenseful and other sentences. The professor starts from the base clause, its basic form, and extends into different ways you can make your sentences longer, to say what you need to say, exhaust the subject described. He presents at the beginning how you can add to the sentence: adding conjunctions, using pronouns (that, which, etc.,) and adding modifying phrases. He explains left branching, right branching, as well to put modifiers in the middle. He explains what forms can start the sentence, what can suspend the sentence toward the end, interruptions, phatic phrases, forms that work that prolong the sentence: as, if, like, probably, perhaps, because, punctuation as colon or semicolon, etc. He talks about beats, how you use them for an impact. He explains how modifiers work. And he shows rhythms in sentences, balanced forms, and three beats. He talks about tropes and schemes as well as punctuation. He finishes with a small talk about paragraphs as a unit, and how it might work as a cumulative sentence, using the lessons presented that work in sentences to work in paragraphs. ---- H-MEDIA02