Examines key terms concerning sentences like: effectiveness and elegance, and grammar and rhetoric comparing and contrasting each. The concern of grammar in this course is only to the point that it helps with expression, the focus being on how sentences work rather than how to label each part.
Assignment: Pick an opening sentence from a newspaper or magazine and rewrite it in a completely different style.
Introduces a number of assumptions upon which the entire course rests. Explores the vertical ladder of abstraction, how the same words in different order have different meanings, that the way sentences convey information adds to or changes the information, and that there’s no difference between style and content.
Assignment: Provide sentences of varying lengths that give you pleasure.
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Thanks to David Crooks I now know I have much more reading to do. I thought I had a pretty extensive reading of hikers on the AT under my belt, but apparently I’m really not very far along the trail at all. David published an online bibliography of hikers’ memoirs at www.atmemoirs.com. Check it out.
This is my web site. It’s all about me, well let’s say FOR me. If it seems self-centered it is, but I don’t mean it in a way to build my ego… just that it serves my purposes to organize my thoughts and web resources. Feel free to read it, but always remember I didn’t write it for you or to promote myself or any of my ideas, just to put them somewhere that I can find them and rearrange them in an attempt to make sense of my own existence and purpose.