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BL
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| Record Number
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878222
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| Main Entry
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Landon, Brooks.
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| Title & Author
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Building great sentences : : how to write the kinds of sentences you love to read /\ Brooks Landon.
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| Publication Statement
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New York, New York :: Plume/Penguin Group,, 2013.
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xv, 267 pages ;; 21 cm
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| ISBN
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0452298601
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: 9780452298606
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| Notes
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"A PLUME BOOK."
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Includes index.
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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A Sequence of Words -- Grammar and Rhetoric -- The Primacy of Propositions -- How Sentences Grow -- The Rhythm of Cumulative Syntax -- Coordinate, Subordinate, and Mixed Cumulative Patterns -- Cumulative Tweaks and Tighten-Ups -- Prompts of Comparison and Speculation -- The Riddle of Prose Rhythm -- Suspensive Syntax: The Rhythm of Delay -- Degrees of Suspensiveness, Significance of Surprise -- Balanced Sentences and Balanced Forms -- The Rhythm of Threes -- Long Sentences and Master Sentences -- Sentences as Keys to the Gift of Style.
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| Abstract
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Drawing on examples from masters of long, elegant sentences, this science-oriented approach to writing, based on one of the Teaching Company's best-selling courses, shares basic writing strategies and encourages students to embrace the sheer joy of language.
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English language-- Rhetoric-- Study and teaching.
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English language-- Sentences-- Study and teaching.
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Engelska språket.
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Engelskundervisning.
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English language-- Rhetoric-- Study and teaching.
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English language-- Rhetoric.
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English language-- Sentences-- Study and teaching.
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English language-- Sentences.
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English language-- Study and Teaching.
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Meningar.
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Retorik.
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Rhetoric-- Study and teaching.
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Satser.
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| Dewey Classification
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808/.042
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| LC Classification
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PE1441.L334 2013
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| NLM classification
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H315clc
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REF026000LAN015000bisacsh
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