Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style Virginia Tufte
Publisher: Graphics Pr

I like to page through Virginia Tufte's “Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style,” which is a catalog of the flexibility of the English sentence. In Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style, Virginia Tufte presents-and comments on-more than a thousand excellent sentences chosen from the works of authors in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We need to pick up lessons, tips, ideas from here and there. As a warm-up activity, you might try actively imitating a writing style different from your own. Nick Pierce recommended a really good book to me, which might help for style -- Artful Sentences: Syntax and Style by Virginia Tufte. In and around all of our PTC 624 exercises about punctuation, verb usage, sentence structure, etc., dances the concept of meaning. Her newest book is Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style (Graphics Press, 2006). Flaubert dreamt of writing a book about nothing, a book which “would hold through the internal strength of style”. There is no magic formula, which, if you follow to a T, will ensure that your sentences fly off the paragraphs and pages. Also, The Writer's Journey by Christopher Vogler is a gooden for structural ideas. My most favorite ever grammar book is Virginia Tufte's Artful Sentences: Syntax As Style I LOVE THAT BOOK! Here we Virginia Tuft, Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style, 2006, p48. Appreciating a few such sentences leads us to ask many questions from how the author does it, to whether each sentence has a soul as Gass suggests?