ENG 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Pg. 99
22 Nov 2017
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Style in writing happens when you exert deliberate control over your sentences, and your diction, in ways that allow you to: point your reader forward using transitional phrases, like admittedly, however, . Therefore, : point your reader backward using pointing words like this and it. , emphasize a concept, idea, point by strategic repetition, as franklin did (perhaps too much) in her essay on silence and sound Style also means using individual words (diction) deliberately, being aware of the difference between denotation (dictionary definitions) and connotation (associations that a word picks up through use). Careful use of diction is what shapes your tone: makes it funny, ironic, serious, critical, etc. Finally, many arguments, even the most rigorously academic, will use figures of speech / literary devices to make a point, especially when, say, explaining a statistic to a lay (not expert) audience. Good writing means thinking hard about the relation between your sentences.
