thlog # 6

This week in class, we learned about the importance of style.  Discovering a writer’s style helps me understand a writer’s moves in a more complex way, and this allows me to read like a writer.  Each different type of style has different effects on the reader.  Learning about several of these in class will further develop my writing skills.  One that will help me a lot is parallelism.

Being able to show parallelism in writing makes it a lot easier for the reader to read the piece because the wording is more structured and easier for the brain to process the information.  As mentioned in class, the patterns of parallelism make it so that there are similarities of structure throughout sentences.  But how can i be able to show parallelism in my writing?  To help answer this question of mine, we had to point out examples of parallelism in a resume.  From the alignment of the dates on the right side of the events to the same amount of bullet points used for past work experience, parallelism was abundant throughout that textual genre.  By reviewing other people’s writing and finding examples of parallelism -- or any other kind of style -- I will be able to write with similar styles and even form more creative ideas to make my writing a thoughtful piece that is easy for the reader to read.  

To learn about more styles, I found it very helpful when we broke up into groups of three to find different forms of style throughout the course reader.  By doing this activity, I was able to work with a style -- alliteration -- that I was not too familiar with by looking up examples in the book and finding out why it is effective to the reader.  To be short, alliteration is a play on words that adds variation to writing.  After listening to the other descriptions the other groups discussed, I feel like I am now ready to use these styles to write an awesome WP2.