Finally I’m posting an essay from my last Bennington class. The assignment was to describe a person, to create a sort of sketch of someone in words. We had spent a couple of classes on modifiers, and I begged the class to use them sparingly, only when necessary. The author here,
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John
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With a certain amount of pride – justifiable, I hope you’ll agree – I announce the invention of a brand new art form: the nifty fifty. This is a piece of prose, not poetry, not a sonnet, not even a limerick. It doesn’t rhyme, although I suppose it could. Its only rule is that,
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For several years, I’ve been teaching a course at Bennington College called “Through Syntax to Style.” It’s (hold on) a grammar course. That’s right. I know: college students? Still, here the point is not to teach old-style grammar with diagramming (everyone asks), for the Bennington students are generally well-prepared syntactically;
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