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The Syntax of Sports #2
The Syntax of Sports, Class 2: The Power of the Particular
What can we learn from baseball great Ted Williams about how to improve our writing? What can we learn we from the iconic ESPN show SportsCenter about how to manage information? And are you sure you really know what the word “peruse” means?
Explore these and other questions in the second volume of The Syntax of Sports, a series designed to recreate a popular course at the University of Michigan. Here are a few things students have said about the experience of taking it.
“Patrick Barry is the best teacher I have ever had. I have never learned so much in a class. I hated English my whole life until I took this course.”
“I feel like this is and always will be the most valuable class I've ever taken here.”
“I genuinely wanted to show up to this class due to the amount I knew I would learn.”
“I'm going to severely SEVERELY miss this course.”
“Every student should try to take one of Prof. Barry’s classes if he or she wants to become a better writer.”
“My writing is now 113x better.”
Explore these and other questions in the second volume of The Syntax of Sports, a series designed to recreate a popular course at the University of Michigan. Here are a few things students have said about the experience of taking it.
“Patrick Barry is the best teacher I have ever had. I have never learned so much in a class. I hated English my whole life until I took this course.”
“I feel like this is and always will be the most valuable class I've ever taken here.”
“I genuinely wanted to show up to this class due to the amount I knew I would learn.”
“I'm going to severely SEVERELY miss this course.”
“Every student should try to take one of Prof. Barry’s classes if he or she wants to become a better writer.”
“My writing is now 113x better.”
153 pages, Paperback
Published May 22, 2020
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December 2, 2020
I took Patrick Barry's course Good with Words and Writing and Editing: Structure and Organization online. This book was helpful to illustrate the various components of Good with Words and Structure and Organization in writing.
May 13, 2021
Great book that covers some of the basics of writing and grammar.
February 2, 2023
This is a study tool that goes along the rest of the materials for Professor Barry's courses. It is briefly touched upon in the online course Writing and Editing.
If anything, the second volume of this conversational quickread is even more erudite than the first. The typed conversations, divided into short, easy-to-get-through chapters, are full of quotes, little-known historical facts from around the world, as well as, of course, lots of American sports information. It is an interesting and effective way of introducing writing concepts.
If anything, the second volume of this conversational quickread is even more erudite than the first. The typed conversations, divided into short, easy-to-get-through chapters, are full of quotes, little-known historical facts from around the world, as well as, of course, lots of American sports information. It is an interesting and effective way of introducing writing concepts.
Displaying 1 - 3 of 3 reviews