Polishing Ideas: The Canon of Style

“Polishing Ideas:  The  Canon of  Style” (Lesson 13) Gong and Dragga demonstrate the importance of  recognizing your  own writing style  and  the reasons for  sometimes adapting a different  style to suit your  purpose, the audience, and the situation. In  an  essay of  about  400  words,  explain  how you  would adapt  for a general audience  a piece of  technical or  specialized  writing (from  an  academic subject, professional  field, or  special  interest publication). Discuss specifically how you  would determine choices of vocabulary,  sentence  length, and sentence structure in  making this  adaptation.   Reread the narratives at the beginning of Chapters 1 and 3.