Writing Style: Some General Notes

Writing Style

1) Arresting detail → images that will attract the reader’s curious eye

• Pull from the larger world
• Pull from your local world

2) Variety of sentence structure → like a good song, an effective essay attempts different notes!

3) Use of figures of speech (metaphors, personification)

4) Use of analogies → another way of connecting issue to larger world

5) Provocative questions on the subject

6) Variety of the kinds of sentences:

• Declare
• Demand
• Interrogate
• Exclaim

7) Diction / dialect → use the language of your roots! (phrases and word choice from where you are from (Coke/pop/soda; trailer v. portable)