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  • This second course in the Good with Words: Writing and Editing series will help you become an effective architect of information, both with your sentences and with your paragraphs. You?ll learn that the traditional advice to ?Show, don?t tell? is incomplete and that skilled writers actually switch back and forth between showing and telling.
  • You?ll also learn more about the menu of time management techniques introduced in the first course of the series, including ?deep work,? ?studio time,? and ?the Animal Farm Principle.? And as with the other three courses in this series, you will get access to a wide range of books and other resources you can use even after you finish the course. These include:
  • (1)the readings and exercises provided to the students who have taken the in-person version of this course at the University of Michigan and the University of Chicago;
  • (2)two digital libraries of excellent writing from a diverse collection of journalists, scientists, novelists, poets, historians, and entrepreneurs;
  • (3)a monthly ?Good Sentences? email.
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Curriculum

Sentence Flow

Introduction

Sentence Flow

Architects of Information

Architects of Time

Punctuation and Professionalism: Deviations from Coordinating Conjunction Rules

Notes on Nuance: "If"

Takeaways

Student Takeaway: Old Friends

Student Takeaway: Architect of Time

Teaching Style + Resources

Help Us Learn More About You!

Good with Words Chapter 8 ("Clarity and Coherence")

Class Clips

Class Clips

Class Clips

Exercise?Old Friends

Spotting Sentences

Exercise?Spotting Sentences (Percentages)

Edit Our Edits

Good Writing, Good Teacher

Punctuation and Professionalism: Introduction and Review

Notes on Nuance: Introduction and Review

Notes on Nuance: "If" and "If Not"

Exercise?Good Sentences (Finance)

Exercise?Takeaways Reflection

Low-Stakes Practice

Low-Stakes Practice

Low-Stakes Practice

Punctuation and Professionalism: Positive Deviance

Nuance Practice: "If" and "If Not"

Nuance Review: "If Not" and "Almost"

Weekly Review (Graded)

Corresponding Ideas in Corresponding Form

Previously On

Previously On: Venn Diagram

Previously On: Architect of Information

Punctuation and Professionalism?Coordinating Conjunctions (Deviation Part II)

Notes on Nuance: "As"

Takeaways

Student Takeaway: Nifty Not

Student Takeaway: Agreement

Previously On: Introduction and Review

Exercise?Previously On

Good with Words Chapter 7 ("Corresponding Ideas in Corresponding Forms")

Class Clips

Exercise?Agreement

Class Clips

Exercise?Omit

Exercise?Nifty Not

Nifty Not: Fan Favorite?

(Optional) Rhetorical Repetition

Rhetorical Repetition: Fan Favorite?

Resource Request (Structure and Organization)

Notes on Nuance: "As"

Exercise?Good Sentences (War)

Exercise?Takeaways

Low-Stakes Practice

Low-Stakes Practice

Low-Stakes Practice

Low-Stakes Practice

Low-Stakes Practice (Awkward Repetition)

Low-Stakes Practice (Rhetorical Repetition)

Punctuation Practice: Positive Deviance Part II

Nuance Practice: "As"

Weekly Review (Graded)

Show and Tell

Previously On

Previously On: Symmetry is What You See at a Glance

Show and Tell

Punctuation and Professionalism: Conjunctions Affect Other Conjunctions

Nuance Spotlight: Jane Austen

Takeaways

Student Takeaway: Summary and Scene

Exercise?Previously On: Reflection

Show and Tell

Exercise?Summary and Scene (Optional)

Exercise?Reverse Outline (Optional)

Student-->Teacher (Optional)

(Optional) Word Choice, Word Confusion

Exercise?Who vs. Whom

Nuance Spotlight: Jane Austen

The Jane Austen Centre (Quizzes and Movies)

Good Sentences (Intellectual Property)

Exercise?Takeaways Reflection

Low-Stakes Practice

Low-Stakes Practice

Low-Stakes Practice (Who vs. Whom)

Punctuation Practice: Conjunctions Affect Other Conjunctions

Nuance Practice: Jane Austen

Weekly Review (Graded)

Paragraphing

Previously On

Previously On: Old Information to New Information

Punctuation and Professionalism: Nonrules ("And" and "But")

Notes on Nuance: At Once

Takeaways

Student Takeaway: Paragraphing

Next Course

Exercise?Previously On: Reflection

Paragraphing

Exercise?The Rhythm of Roth (Optional)

Raindrops vs. Waterfalls: What is the Structure of Your Text Messages?

Notes on Nuance: "At Once"

Good Sentences (Medicine)

Exercise?Takeaways Reflection

Book Recommendations (Travel)

Exercise?Thank You Letter (Optional)

Course Feedback

Keep Learning with Michigan Online

Low-Stakes Practice

Low-Stakes Practice

Punctuation Practice: Starting a Sentence with "And" or "But"

Nuance Practice ("At Once")

Weekly Review (Graded)

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