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Creative writers explore the mechanics of perfect prose<\/p>\n

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<\/iframe><br \/>\n <br \/>\n English Professor Jeff Noh<\/p>\n<p>What makes a great sentence? That’s a question <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/departments\/english\/\" aria-label=\"english major\">English<\/a> Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/faculty\/profiles\/jeff-kisuk-noh\/\" aria-label=\"professor bio\">Jeff Noh<\/a> and his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/academics\/undergraduate\/programs\/majors-minors\/major-in-creative-writing-b-a\/\" aria-label=\"creative writing major\">creative writing<\/a> students could debate for hours.<\/p>\n<p>“A sentence is often a temporary place you visit on your way to the next sentence,” says Noh. “Some writers certainly are obsessed with the sentence and think about it as an enormous, capacious kind of thing. I think it’s more the case that we think of sentences in their relationship to other sentences.”<\/p>\n<p>Sentences can be complex or simple. Unconventional or original. Succinct or meandering. On this episode of <strong>Challenge. Change.<\/strong>, Noh, Kaleigh Gibbons ’24, and Julianna Hall ’24, among the first students to graduate with a new creative writing major, share their favorite sentences and break down what makes the structures special.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Challenge. Change.<\/strong> is produced by Andrew Hart and Melissa Hanson for Clark University. Listen and subscribe on <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4UuYAjq1d3Hq45cjwxoCNL\" aria-label=\"listen on spotify\">Spotify<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/challenge-change\/id1608025510\" aria-label=\"listen on apple podcasts\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>. 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