Virginia Tufte

Virginia Tufte is an American distinguished Professor Emerita of English at the University of Southern California. Tufte specializes in epithalamic poetry, the works of John Milton, and the development and usage of the English language. Her awards include the USC Associates Award For Excellence In Teaching, 1982 and the Justin Dart Award for Academic Innovation, 1975.

In Virginia Tufte's book, Artful Sentences: Syntax As Style, Tufte chooses to not write about the error of sentence style but to take a more positive approach and write about the successes of being a good writer. Tufte's book is organized into 14 chapters, each one organized around a syntactic concept-short sentences, noun phrases, verb plrases, appositives, and parallelism. This all provides a systematic, comprehensive range of models for students who want to pursue writing.

Publications

• An analysis of the usage sections of five standardized English tests for grades 12 and 13 (1950)
• Literary backgrounds and motifs of the Epithalamium in English to 1650 (1964)
• England's first epithalamium and the "Vesper adest" tradition (1969)
• Poetry of Marriage: The Epithalamium in Europe and Its Development in England (1970)
• High Wedlock Then Be Honoured : Wedding Poems from Nineteen Countries and Twenty-Five Centuries (1970)
• Grammar as style (1971)
• Changing Images of the Family (Virginia Tufte and Barbara Myerhoff, editors)(1979)
• Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style (2006)

References

LibraryofCongress.gov catalog [1]

USC directory [2]