Artful Sentences

Author : Virginia Tufte
Publisher : Conran Octopus
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Artful Sentences written by Virginia Tufte and published by Conran Octopus. This book was released on 2006 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style, Virginia Tufte shows how standard sentence patterns and forms contribute to meaning and art in more than a thousand wonderful sentences from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The book has special interest for aspiring writers, students of literature and language, and anyone who finds joy in reading and writing."--Publisher's description.

Author : Virginia Tufte
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grammar as Style written by Virginia Tufte and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Brooks Landon
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101614021
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building Great Sentences written by Brooks Landon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Joe Moran
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241978505
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book First You Write a Sentence. written by Joe Moran and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2018-09-27 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A STYLE GUIDE BY STEALTH - HOW ANYONE CAN WRITE WELL (AND FULLY ENJOY GOOD WRITING) 'Joe Moran is a wonderfully sharp writer, calm, precise and quietly comical' Craig Brown Advanced maths has no practical use, and is understood by few. A symphony can be enjoyed, but created only by a genius. Good writing, however, can be written (and read) by anyone if we give it the gift of our time. Enter universally praised historian Professor Joe Moran. From the Bible and Shakespeare to Orwell and Diana Athill, First You Write a Sentence.show us how the most ordinary words can be turned into verbal constellations, sharing: - The tools of the trade; from typewriters to texting and the impact this has on the craft - Writing and the senses; how to make the world visible and touchable - How to find the ideal word, build a sentence, and construct a paragraph Good writing can ignite the hearts and minds of readers, help us notice the world better and live more meaningful lives. And it's a power we all can wield. 'What a lovely thing this is: a book that delights in the sheer textural joy of good sentences . . . Any writer should read it' Bee Wilson 'Thoughtful, engaging, and lively . . . when you've read it, you realise you've changed your attitude to writing (and reading)' John Simpson, formerly Chief Editor of the OED and author of The Word Detective 'Moran is a past master at producing fine, accessible non-fiction' Helen Davies, Sunday Times

Author : Sarah Urist Green
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525505857
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book You Are an Artist written by Sarah Urist Green and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “There are more than 50 creative prompts for the artist (or artist at heart) to explore. Take the title of this book as affirmation, and get started.” —Fast Company More than 50 assignments, ideas, and prompts to expand your world and help you make outstanding new things to put into it Curator Sarah Urist Green left her office in the basement of an art museum to travel and visit a diverse range of artists, asking them to share prompts that relate to their own ways of working. The result is You Are an Artist, a journey of creation through which you'll invent imaginary friends, sort books, declare a cause, construct a landscape, find your band, and become someone else (or at least try). Your challenge is to filter these assignments through the lens of your own experience and make art that reflects the world as you see it. You don't have to know how to draw well, stretch a canvas, or mix a paint color that perfectly matches that of a mountain stream. This book is for anyone who wants to make art, regardless of experience level. The only materials you'll need are what you already have on hand or can source for free. Full of insights, techniques, and inspiration from art history, this book opens up the processes and practices of artists and proves that you, too, have what it takes to call yourself one. You Are an Artist brings together more than 50 assignments gathered from some of the most innovative creators working today, including Sonya Clark, Michelle Grabner, The Guerrilla Girls, Fritz Haeg, Pablo Helguera, Nina Katchadourian, Toyin Ojih Odutola, J. Morgan Puett, Dread Scott, Alec Soth, Gillian Wearing, and many others.

Author : Greg Keast
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781086913699
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of the Sentence written by Greg Keast and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of the Sentence is a clear and concise introduction into many of the most important concepts in rhetoric. Using classic and modern examples of rhetoric, the book reviews over 120 rhetorical devices and techniques and explains when and how they are used in writing. If you want to gain insight into rhetoric and be a better writer, this is an excellent resource to own.

Author : Stanley Fish
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062006851
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Write a Sentence written by Stanley Fish and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller “Both deeper and more democratic than The Elements of Style” —Adam Haslett, Financial Times “A guided tour through some of the most beautiful, arresting sentences in the English language.” —Slate In this entertaining and erudite gem, world-class professor and New York Times columnist Stanley Fish offers both sentence craft and sentence pleasure, skills invaluable to any writer (or reader). Like a seasoned sportscaster, Fish marvels at the adeptness of finely crafted sentences and breaks them down into digestible morsels, giving readers an instant play-by-play. Drawing on a wide range of great writers, from Philip Roth to Antonin Scalia to Jane Austen, How to Write a Sentence is much more than a writing manual—it is a spirited love letter to the written word, and a key to understanding how great writing works. It is a book that will stand the test of time.

Author : June Casagrande
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
ISBN 13 : 1580083781
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences written by June Casagrande and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2010-07-27 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this wickedly humorous manual, language columnist June Casagrande uses grammar and syntax to show exactly what makes some sentences great—and other sentences suck. Great writing isn’t born, it’s built—sentence by sentence. But too many writers—and writing guides—overlook this most important unit. The result? Manuscripts that will never be published and writing careers that will never begin. With chapters on “Conjunctions That Kill” and “Words Gone Wild,” this lighthearted guide is perfect for anyone who’s dead serious about writing, from aspiring novelists to nonfiction writers, conscientious students to cheeky literati. So roll up your sleeves and prepare to craft one bold, effective sentence after another. Your readers will thank you.

Author : Bob Raczka
Publisher : Millbrook Press
ISBN 13 : 1580138802
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Artful Reading written by Bob Raczka and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of artwork by various artists showing people reading.

Author : Robert Pinsky
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393050688
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying with the Masters written by Robert Pinsky and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-08-05 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back cover: "With selections from Elizabeth Bishop, William Blake, Lewis Carroll, Marianne Moore, Frank O'Hara, Sappho, WIlliam Carlos Williams, and many others, "Singing school" offers a bold new approach to writing (and reading) poetry based on great poetry of the past. Instead of offering rules, theories, or recipes, Robert Pinsky's headnotes for each of the eighty poems and brief introductions to each section respect poetry's mysteries, in two senses of the word: techniques of craft and strokes of the inexplicable."