Syntax of Sports, Class 7

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.

• Class Roster1. Previously On: Shitty First Drafts2. 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. Collect27. 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