Sentence Power: From Craft to Art

3 Credits.

This craft elective focuses on?learning to write stronger?sentences?and is open to fiction or nonfiction students. Through close?study of syntax?and?weekly?exercises, students learn various techniques?to assemble?complex?sentences and?establish?syntactic relationships within paragraphs.?By learning about and practicing the proper use of propositions, cumulative syntax, and suspensive syntax, students explore how the composition of sentences influences a sense of rhythm, balance, and style in their writing and in the writing of others.