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WRITING STYLE

WRITING STYLE. HOW TO ANALYZE WRITING STYLE THINGS TO CONSIDER. WHAT IS WRITING STYLE?. Writing style is the different strategies an author chooses to address an issue and an audience.

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WRITING STYLE

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  1. WRITING STYLE HOW TO ANALYZE WRITING STYLE THINGS TO CONSIDER

  2. WHAT IS WRITING STYLE? • Writing style is the different strategies an author chooses to address an issue and an audience. • A style reveals the writer's personality or voice, but it also shows how she or he sees the audience of the writing. • The writing style reveals the choices the writer makes in syntactical structures, diction, and figures of speech.

  3. SENTENCE STRUCTURE • THIS INCLUDES THE TYPES OF SENTENCES THAT THE AUTHOR USES IN THE WORK. • SIMPLE • COMPLEX • COMPOUND-COMPLEX • BALANCED

  4. DICTION: WORD CHOICE • JARGON /LINGO Special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand. E.G. "He's an impact player" (sports) "This one's in the bag" • DIALECT A variety of speech associated with a particular group within a society.E.G. "It is like, in Tennessee, you wouldn't usually say you, you would say y'all ." • CLICHES E.G. "live and learn" "what goes around comes around" • COLLOQUIAL LANGUAGE E.G. "barfed" "fake"

  5. FIGURES OF SPEECH • A figure of speech is a use of a word that diverges from its normal meaning, or a phrase with a specialized meaning not based on the literal meaning of the words in it such as a metaphor, simile, or personification. Figures of speech often provide emphasis, freshness of expression, or clarity. • E.G. metaphor, simile, personification (see chart)

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