Building Great Sentences: Exploring the Writer's Craft

Building Great Sentences: Exploring the Writer's Craft « Series from 2025

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In Building Great Sentences: Exploring the Writer's Craft, Professor Brooks Landon from the University of Iowa—one of the nation's top writing schools—shows you the pleasure in reading and writing great sentences.

Explore the stylistic rewards (and risks) of various forms, learn how to build and appreciate effective and elegant sentences, and get unique insights into the nature of great writing.

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A Sequence of Words

Grammar and Rhetoric

Propositions and Meaning

How Sentences Grow

Adjectival Steps

The Rhythm of Cumulative Syntax

Direction of Modification

Coordinate, Subordinate, and Mixed Patterns

Coordinate Cumulative Sentences

Subordinate and Mixed Cumulatives

Prompts of Comparison

Prompts of Explanation

The Riddle of Prose Rhythm

Cumulative Syntax to Create Suspense

Degrees of Suspensiveness

The Mechanics of Delay

Prefab Patterns for Suspense

Balanced Sentences and Balanced Forms

The Rhythm of Twos

The Rhythm of Threes

Balanced Series and Serial Balances

Master Sentences

Sentences in Sequence

Sentences and Prose Style