What’s my style, anyway?
This week we read a variety of works on writing style. It was interesting to go back and read Strunk and White's essay on style again, many years and many words after the first reading. And it is an even more interesting task to answer the question of the week: what's my style, anyway? That wasn't specifically the question we are asked to answer, but it is my summary of the exercise. Actually, I realize after reading our assigned writings that the question of style almost never crosses my mind. Because I have done so many different types of writing (almost everything except fiction and poetry), the primary concern for…
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