The Pleasure of Producing Good Sentences

the TWP Faculty Write Program, the Forum for Scholars and Publics and the Centre for Philosophy, Art and Literature at Duke present:

The Pleasure of Producing Good Sentences

A Scholarly Writing Workshop with

Aaron Sachs

(Historian, Cornell)

Friday, September 11

2-3:30pm in Old Chem 011

Academic writers typically evaluate their work at the level of ideas or arguments.  But there is no indication of your thoughts beyond the sentences you use to capture them. What happens when we shift our attention to the careful crafting of each individual sentence? Can there be rhythm and music in scholarly prose?

Aaron Sachs teaches history, writing, American Studies, and environmental studies at Cornell University. He is the author of The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of Environmentalism (Viking 2006) and Arcadian America: The Death and Life of an Environmental Tradition (Yale U. Press, 2013). He also serves as the faculty advisor to a radical, underground graduate-student organization called Historians Are Writers (HAW!)

This workshop is open to all faculty and graduate students. Space is limited.

To register, email writingprogram@duke.edu by Wednesday, September 9th.

This workshop is sponsored by the TWP Faculty Write Program, the Forum for Scholars and Publics and the Centre for Philosophy, Art and Literature at Duke