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Graphics Press has now published Virginia Tufte’s new book, Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style. A description of the book, some sample pages, and ordering. About adjectives: all fine prose is based on the verbs carrying the sentences. They make sentences move. Probably the finest technical poem in English is. Virginia Tufte’s Artful Sentences really came together for me in the last chapter. I imagine the book has a little something for everyone—the.
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For my purposes, it’s nice, but I like better the why that comes along with knowing the parts of speech.
So, I galloped through the dissections, but the book is bursting with culled sentences as examples of the different constructions. Books by Virginia Tufte.
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Artful sentences : syntax as style
This is much more analytical that I anticipated. A wonderful survey of different types of sentences by studying actual sentences by professional writers in the wild, across a variety of genres, and with both modern and classic samples. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. If you’re trying to figure out artflu else, like slightly more advanced grammar, maybe you don’t like it as much.
She introduced the concept of sentence fragments using a sentence fragment. Lots of cool sentences and plenty of ideas to think about them with and you’d think I’d write a better one here after reading senrences, right? The specific requirements or preferences of your reviewing publisher, classroom teacher, institution or organization should be applied. An excellent example of this is given by Tufte on page Might be above you, as it’s clearly written by grammar lovers for grammar lovers.
In this regard, if you are going to read that section in Grammar as Style and miss her point, then yeah, this book will be better.
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Apr 08, Jess rated it liked it. It is rich with examples — literally thousands of sentences from acclaimed and not so-acclaimed writers are examined. Please create a new list with a new name; move some items to a new or existing list; or delete some items. Trivia About Artful Sentences One of the best ways of teaching is to show rather than just to tell, and in this book, Virginia Tufte Edward Tufte’s mother [thanks, Dan, for correcting my misperception that she was his wife!
She shares more than 1, sentences as examples of all the types of good and beautiful sentences that one can create and divides the book logically by grammatical types. Artful Sentences shows specific skills, widely applicable, that a writer can learn.
For about a month after I read this book it was really hard to write, because I wanted every sentence to be as perfect as the examples in this book. A string of noun phrases opened or closed with a short, stout sentence. Lists with This Book. Subjects English language — Rhetoric. Write a review Rate this item: I liked Grammar as Style better for the precise reasons others found the book less useful.
Between her two books, I liked her other on Grammar as Style slightly better. What is unique about the models, or examples, it contains, is their diversity. WorldCat is the world’s largest library catalog, helping you find library materials online. Listen to the sound of my own voice. Jul 19, Len Joy rated it it was amazing. Tufte takes a different approach, one of description. Thank you, dear Guion, and thank you, dear Lydia Davis.
And, like Zinsser, she also affirms that some authors do write beautifully with long, complicated sentences. The course I am taking Winter and Spring at The Evergreen State College is going through this book one chapter a week — which is a good pace, considering its dense, thought-provoking materia.
My husband went to all but one of them and took notes for me. Learn how to end and begin sentences for specific effects.
Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style
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Return to Book Page. Refresh and try again. English View all editions and formats Rating: Feb 29, Madly Jane rated it it was amazing Shelves: The big difference, though, is that her writing is just as interesting as the examples. I read this book a few pages at a time over a couple of months. I believe it is a book without beginning or end. Feb 05, flannery rated it it was amazing Shelves: I needed to learn the meaning of several words.
And in looking at hundreds even approaching thousands of types of sentences, she frees students from feeling bound to particular constructions, offering them freedom and autonomy.
Not what I was expecting.
But the joy in reading this book isn’t simply from her well-curated samples from literature; it is also from Tufte’s writing itself, which often subtly uses the devices she’s talking about. Elegant explanations of current thinking on matters of syntax, combined with numerous examples that demonstrate the differences between valid stylistic choices provide the reader, whether relatively new to grammatical thinking or confiden This is a marvelous book.
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