WRITING LIKE AN AUTHOR: A Study in Sentence Composing
Language: English
Published by Independently published, 2023
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- Title
- WRITING LIKE AN AUTHOR: A Study in Sentence Composing
- Author
- Killgallon, Don And Jenny
- Publisher
- Independently published
- Publication year
- 2023
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798388761446
- Item weight
- 2 pounds
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"Stylistic imitation is a perfectly honorable way to get started as a writer and impossible to avoid, really; some sort of imitation marks each new stage of a writer’s development...."
--Stephen King, On Writing
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Appropriate as a textbook for English or writing classes, and a self-study course for anyone, the book clearly shows how to build your sentences like an author.
In thousands of classrooms within and beyond the United States, Don and Jenny Killgallon’s sentence-composing method has given students tools to become better writers. By focusing on the sentence, the Killgallons in their numerous textbooks for students--all levels, from upper elementary through college--changed the way teachers and their students look at language, literature, and writing.
Authors frequently, others infrequently, use a variety of tools in building sentences. The sentence-composing method teaches students to use the same variety of tools of authors in their own sentences. Just as infinitely varied music can be based upon just a few notes and chords, those sentence-building tools allow for the creation of an infinite variety of sentence structures.
Imitating the sentence-building tools of authors provides the how, but also enhances the what. With the focus on just one sentence at a time, through varied imitation activities, writers succeed, sometimes astonishingly, in building sentences like authors in both structure and content.
C O N T E N T S:
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PART ONE: SENTENCES OF AUTHORS
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CHAPTER 1: WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
CHAPTER 2: HOW YOU'LL LEARN
CHAPTER 3: SENTENCE-COMPOSING ACTIVITIES
CHUNKING
UNSCRAMBLING
COMBINING
IMITATING
EXPANDING
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PART TWO: TOOLBOX OF AUTHORS
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CHAPTER 4: SENTENCE BASICS
CHAPTER 5: TOOLS OF AUTHORS
IDENTIFIER
DESCRIBER
ELABORATOR
MULTIPLES AND COMBOS
CHAPTER 6: MARKS OF AUTHORS
DASH
SEMICOLON
COLON
CHAPTER 7: PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER
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PART THREE: WRITING OF AUTHORS
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CHAPTER 8: WRITING LIKE AN AUTHOR
WILLIAM GOLDING--LORD OF THE FLIES
WRITING LIKE YOU
AVAILABLE ALSO ON AMAZON.COM: Both teach 12 sentence-composing tools typical of authors.
HARRY POTTER AND THE SUPER SENTENCE: A Study of the Sentencecraft of J. K. Rowling
THE SENTENCE CRAFT OF STEPHEN KING: A Sentence-Composing Approach
The Killgallon sentence-composing method demonstrates that authors’ sentences have “architecture,” and that the structure of a sentence is its blueprint. Imitating authors' sentences through varied sentence-composing activities, you will with surprising ease build your own sentences like sentences of authors like J. K. Rowling or Stephen King. All activities teach students to learn, practice, and apply these twelve tools in their own writing .
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