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Building great sentences [videorecording] : exploring the writer's craft / Brooks Landon.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 2368 | Teaching CompanySeries: Great courses (DVD). Literature & English language.Publication details: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., 2008.Edition: Library edDescription: 4 videodiscs : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks (22 cm.)ISBN:
  • 1598034480
  • 9781598034486
  • 1598034499 (text : pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PE1408 .L288 DVD
Contents:
Pt. 1. Disc 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 -- Disc 2. 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. Disc 3. 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 -- Disc. 4. 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.
Taught by Prof. Brooks Landon, University of Iowa.
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"Course No. 2368"

Also issued with 1 course guidebook (2 volumes in 1).

Pt. 1. Disc 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 -- Disc 2. 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. Disc 3. 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 -- Disc. 4. 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.

Taught by Prof. Brooks Landon, University of Iowa.

DVD.

Some copies may circulate in 2 containers. See holdings information.

Set includes: 4 DVDs, 1 book.

Set 1 includes: 2 DVDs (discs 1-2), 1 book.

Set 2 includes: 2 DVDs (discs 3-4), 1 book.

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