The Art and Craft of the Sentence, Part Two
RCC Writing Studio Workshop
05.12.2023 12:00 – 14:00
Continuation of the workshop with Mark Olival-Bartley
This workshop will focus squarely on the neglected workhorse of scholarship, the sentence. Together, we will anatomize the syntactic parts of a sentence (at the level of the word, phrase, and clause), noting their purposes and interanimations, and investigate how different sentence styles (i.e., simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex) can be best harnessed to help us ecopoetically in our respective fields in the environmental humanities. Drawing on primers by Fish, Foerster and Steadman, and Longknife and Sullivan, Mark Olival-Bartley will lead this introduction to the art and craft of the sentence.
Location: conference room, fourth floor, RCC
Further reading:
- Fish, Stanley. How to Write a Sentence and How to Read One. New York: HarperCollins, 2012.
- Foerster, Norman and J. M Steadman. Sentences and Thinking: A Practice Book in Sentence Making. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1919.
- Longknife, Ann and K. D. Sullivan. The Art of Styling Sentences. 5th ed. New York: Barron’s Educational Services, 2012.
This is an RCC Environmental Writing Studio event. You can find more information on the event series here.
The event is open to everyone.