WRITING LIKE AN AUTHOR: A Study in Sentence Composing

By Don and Jenny Killgallon

Teaching authors' tools via imitation and varied activities, WRITING LIKE AN AUTHOR: A Study in Sentence Composing uses the Killgallon's unique sentence-composing method taught in thousands of classrooms within and beyond the United States. _________________________________________________________________________________________________ "Stylistic imitation is a perfectly honorable way to get started as a writer and impossible to avoid, really; some sort of imitation marks each new stage of a writer's development...." --Stephen King, On Writing _________________________________________________________________________________________________ Appropriate as a textbook for English or writing classes, and a self-study course for anyone , the book clearly shows how to build your sentences like an author. AVAILABLE ALSO ON AMAZON.COM : HARRY POTTER AND THE SUPER SENTENCE: A Study of the Sentencecraft of J. K. Rowling teaches 12 sentence-composing tools typical of authors. The Killgallon sentence-composing method demonstrates that authors' sentences have "architecture," and that the structure of a sentence is its blueprint. Imitating authors' sentences through varied sentence-composing activities, you will with surprising ease build your own sentences like sentences of authors like J. K. Rowling. All activities teach students to learn, practice, and apply these twelve tools in their own writing like J. K. Rowling. MULTIPLE SUBJECT J. K. Rowling: His school and Quidditch robes, cauldron, parchment, quills, and most of his textbooks were piled in a corner. MULTIPLE PREDICATE J. K. Rowling: Harry crossed to his bedroom on tiptoe, slipped inside, closed the door, and turned to collapse on his bed . OPENING ADJECTIVE J. K. Rowling: Filthy and wet , the rest of the Gryffindor team had arrived to see Harry. DELAYED ADJECTIVE J. K. Rowling: Snape looked no more than nine or ten years old, sallow, small, stringy . OPENING ADVERB J. K. Rowling: Painstakingly , he recounted what he had seen in the Pensieve and what had happened in the forest. DELAYED ADVERB J. K. Rowling: Harry saw, fleetingly , a look of shock and anger on Tonks's face. ABSOLUTE PHRASE J. K. Rowling: They walked in silence, their eyes on the ground . APPOSITIVE PHRASE J. K. Rowling: When Neville Longbottom, the boy who kept losing his toad , was called, he fell over on his way to the stool. PARTICIPLE PHRASE J. K. Rowling: The train rattled onward, speeding them out into open country . PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE J. K. Rowling: Inside the room , the cold voice was continuing to hiss. ADJECTIVE CLAUSE J. K. Rowling: They were watching a brand-new television, a welcome-home-for-the-summer present for Dudley, who had been complaining loudly about the long walk between the fridge and the television in the living room .- ADVERB CLAUSE J. K. Rowling: Since he had last seen it , the gargoyle guarding the entrance to the headmaster's study had been knocked aside.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0C47PN3XZ
• ISBN13: 9798388761446
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.6" x 0.4" x 6.7"