ENG 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ingroups And Outgroups
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We all have an ear for the way that words work in order to create a certain tone, voice, rhythm, and texture. We refer to this different feel that writing can have as style. While it can be difficult to pin down exactly what gives a piece of writing its distinctive feel, sentence type, sentence length, vocabulary, pronouns, and punctuation all contribute to a piece of writing"s style. Ancient greek theorists identified two distinctive types of style: high style, or formal writing, and low style, a colloquial form meant to appeal to a broader audience. High and low aren"t necessarily value judgments; style is about finding the appropriate tone for your audience, your authorial persona, and the genre in which you are writing. High style is formal, and is generally appropriate for scholarly and scientific writing. High style features some combination of the following features: Dominant third-person (he, she it, they) or impersonal point of view.
