Sullivan’s book, The Art of Styling Sentences: 20. Review on Warcraft

Sullivan’s book, The Art of Styling Sentences: 20 Patterns for Success – look for the second edition published in 2002 – which I studied with a writing friend, KN, and found to be extremely helpful in reviewing colons, semi-colons, appostives, etc, especially as KN.

And I posted to mutual mailing lists and encourage each other to use the patterns correctly and creatively and learned that control of language was essential to make the words mean what you want it to mean( in fact, I found this book to be so useful, that I required it as a text when I taught Freshman Composition); and third, was Dona Hickey’s wondeful book, Developing a Written Voice, a virtual gem of a book – it’s not for the faint-hearted, because it reads like a college text book, but it’s a gem, nonetheless – which encourages the exploration of both long and short sentences, including sentence fragments, while Hickey also gives the writer a range of options for creating coherence and cohesion among the various parts of the sentence, including traditional rhetorical strategies such as schemes(unusual patterns of words): schemes of balance, such as parallel structures, antithesis and the isocolon; schemes of unusual or inverted word order, such as anastrophe and parenthesis; schemes of omission, such as ellipsis, asyndeton or polysyndeton; schemes of repetition, such as alliteration, polyptoton, assonance, anaphora, epistrophe, epanalepsis, anadiplosis, tricolon, chiasmus, and of course, long lists – all useful tools to create long sentences and keep them understandable. Writing long is fun. Really. Try it.