Based on the bestselling series from The Great Courses, Building Great Sentences celebrates the sheer joy of language—and will forever change the way you read and write.
Great writing begins with the sentence. Whether it’s two words (“Jesus wept.”) or William Faulkner’s 1,287-word sentence in Absalom! Absalom!, sentences have the power to captivate, entertain, motivate, educate, and, most importantly, delight. Yet, the sentence-oriented approach to writing is too often overlooked in favor of bland economy. Building Great Sentences teaches you to write better sentences by luxuriating in the pleasures of language.
Award-winning Professor Brooks Landon draws on examples from masters of long, elegant sentences—including Don DeLillo, Virginia Woolf, Joan Didion, and Samuel Johnson—to reveal the mechanics of how language works on thoughts and emotions, providing the tools to write powerful, more effective sentences.
Dr. Brooks Landon is Herman J. and Eileen S. Schmidt Professor of English and Collegiate Fellow at The University of Iowa and Director of the University’s General Education Literature Program. He lives in Iowa.
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老師推薦的一部書,真的超贊。 全書主體是建立在cumulative sentences之上,不斷縱深,擴展,結構清晰,嚴謹。 任何學習英語的人,包括native speaker,都應該讀一下這本書,因為它能讓你如此清晰地感觸到英語自身的活力。讀一支句子感覺想是在一次旅途之中,在做一次多角度的觀察,在欣賞一座勻稱挺拔的建築…… 真的超贊。
评分A real gem, heuristic while entertaining.
评分老師推薦的一部書,真的超贊。 全書主體是建立在cumulative sentences之上,不斷縱深,擴展,結構清晰,嚴謹。 任何學習英語的人,包括native speaker,都應該讀一下這本書,因為它能讓你如此清晰地感觸到英語自身的活力。讀一支句子感覺想是在一次旅途之中,在做一次多角度的觀察,在欣賞一座勻稱挺拔的建築…… 真的超贊。
评分打開你英語寫作新世界的大門。雖然有些囉嗦。
评分比起the elements of style那本讀到懷疑人生的書,這本相當友好瞭。本是為瞭academic writing 來讀的,看完體會到瞭寫作自身的美。寫作大抵和天下之事相同,明白基本規則後,就是不斷的模仿和練習。
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