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.
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.
發表於2025-02-01
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圖書標籤: 英語 寫作 英語寫作 英文寫作 Writing 英語學習 English 英文原版
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評分TTC課程
評分花瞭兩個月,斷斷續續,終於讀完瞭。蘭登教授齣色地展示瞭如何超越語法、某些過分追求簡潔的寫作規則,鼓勵讀者構造長句,從中探尋寫作的趣味,逐步建立可以錶達“我”和“我所認為的真實”的風格。文中最為令我印象深刻的是關於Cumulative Sentences的解析,蘭登把句子比做階梯,強調句子的層次和流動,讓我進一步理解瞭字句間的節奏。此外,蘭登還解構瞭Suspensive Sentences,為Balanced Sentences正瞭名。最後一章,鼓勵讀者開始寫作,保持寫作,將寫作傳遞下去,讓句子活過來,讓浪潮流動起來。這對句子的愛,真切地打動瞭我。閱讀過程磕磕絆絆,我有太多的不懂。但是,探尋的過程趣味盎然,絕對值得。
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評分花瞭兩個月,斷斷續續,終於讀完瞭。蘭登教授齣色地展示瞭如何超越語法、某些過分追求簡潔的寫作規則,鼓勵讀者構造長句,從中探尋寫作的趣味,逐步建立可以錶達“我”和“我所認為的真實”的風格。文中最為令我印象深刻的是關於Cumulative Sentences的解析,蘭登把句子比做階梯,強調句子的層次和流動,讓我進一步理解瞭字句間的節奏。此外,蘭登還解構瞭Suspensive Sentences,為Balanced Sentences正瞭名。最後一章,鼓勵讀者開始寫作,保持寫作,將寫作傳遞下去,讓句子活過來,讓浪潮流動起來。這對句子的愛,真切地打動瞭我。閱讀過程磕磕絆絆,我有太多的不懂。但是,探尋的過程趣味盎然,絕對值得。
Building Great Sentences 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載