The Syntax of Sports, Class 7: Information Flow
What can sports fans who start “the wave” at a big stadium teach us about getting people to speak up in class or at an important meeting? What can the poet Maya Angelou and the boxer Joe Louis teach us about streamlining sentences and paragraphs? And how exactly do we get our ideas to flow in powerfully persuasive ways? Explore these and other questions in the seventh volume of The Syntax of Sports, a series based on the innovative and highly interdisciplinary courses Professor Patrick Barry teaches at the University of Michigan.
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The Syntax of Sports, Class 7: Information Flow
What can sports fans who start “the wave” at a big stadium teach us about getting people to speak up in class or at an important meeting? What can the poet Maya Angelou and the boxer Joe Louis teach us about streamlining sentences and paragraphs? And how exactly do we get our ideas to flow in powerfully persuasive ways? Explore these and other questions in the seventh volume of The Syntax of Sports, a series based on the innovative and highly interdisciplinary courses Professor Patrick Barry teaches at the University of Michigan.
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The Syntax of Sports, Class 7: Information Flow

The Syntax of Sports, Class 7: Information Flow

by Patrick Barry
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The Syntax of Sports, Class 7: Information Flow

by Patrick Barry

Overview

What can sports fans who start “the wave” at a big stadium teach us about getting people to speak up in class or at an important meeting? What can the poet Maya Angelou and the boxer Joe Louis teach us about streamlining sentences and paragraphs? And how exactly do we get our ideas to flow in powerfully persuasive ways? Explore these and other questions in the seventh volume of The Syntax of Sports, a series based on the innovative and highly interdisciplinary courses Professor Patrick Barry teaches at the University of Michigan.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781607859086
Publisher: Michigan Publishing
Publication date: 11/06/2025
Series: Syntax of Sports
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 128
File size: 6 MB

About the Author

An All-American soccer player in college who holds both a Ph.D. in English and a J.D., Professor Patrick Barry joined the University of Michigan Law School after clerking for two federal judges and working in legal clinics devoted to combating human trafficking and reforming the foster care system.  He is the author of several books on advocacy — including Good with Words and Notes on Nuance — and regularly puts on workshops for law firms, state governments, and non-profit organizations.  He also teaches at the University of Chicago Law School and has developed a series of online courses for the educational platform Coursera.

Table of Contents

Class Roster

1. Previously On: Shitty First Drafts

2. Previously On: Extra Ear 

3. Thresholds 

4. An Act of Philanthropy 

5. The Wave 

6. Quiet 

7. Social Loafing 

8. Baseball, Bill Gates, and Clutch Players 

9. Production Blockage 

10. Evaluation Apprehension 

11. Benjamin Franklin 

12. Sentences, Ideas, Persuasion 

13. For Want of a Nail 

14. Bored and Confused 

15. Tappers vs. Listeners 

16. The Curse of Knowledge 

17. The Sense of Style 

18. The Disease of American Writing 

19. Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, and Joe Louis 

20. Bloated and Wasteful 

21. Adverbs 

22. Adjectives 

23. The Optimal Level of Advocacy 

24. Doublets 

25. English Never Stops 

26. Control vs. Collect

27. Gawande 

28. The End of Average 

29. Brain Scans, Bobby Fischer, and Benjamin Bloom 

30. Square Peg 

31. Notes on Nuance: “Let Alone” 

Acknowledgments 

Notes 

Photo Credits 

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