Week 5 Blog
Did anyone else enjoy Lindemann’s Chapter 9 on “Teaching Paragraphing”? Although I understand coordination and subordination within sentences, end weight, and old and new information, I still stumble over the coordinate and subordinate relationships between sentences within paragraphs. Her visual examples on pages 160-162 are helping.
What I also like about Chapter 9 is that it confirms my suspicion that artistry is achievable (examples on page 153) and supports the idea that writing can be taught and learned. I am inspired to read some of her references (Christensen, Mahaney, and Winterowd).
I really liked Winterowd (both his cool and rather dramatic name and what he has to say). I bought his COMPOSITION IN THE RHETORICAL TRADITION and have returned to it many times. It is helpful in understanding literary criticism and rhetoric.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Jennifer. I'll add it to my book list.
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