Style

                I honestly never knew that there were different styles of writing such as high, middle, and low. It makes sense that there would be different types of writing based on who your audience is. Reading on these different styles reminded me of how I text and email. When texting friends I’m very casual and personal like the low style, but when emailing a professor or boss, I am more formal like high style.

                A big part of your style is the language you use within your writing. It’s hard to avoid using a lot of gender stereotypical expressions (ex: mailman) when those are what we are used to using. Even if a certain word or phrase does not seem offensive to you, it’s good to be aware of how other people may respond or how they may offense to it.  This was interesting to me because I am usually very unaware of these words while writing but if you become and aware and exclude such things from your writing, you appeal to a larger audience. As the book said, a good way to go over your work and catch errors like this is by reading your work out loud to yourself.