For Thursday, read each of the entries from the class, with special attention to the students in the groups from Tuesday's class (if you weren't here on Tuesday, then pick three blogs to respond to).
Focus at the level of the sentence on the style of the writers, on features that stand out to you when you look closely at their writing. What do you notice about their sentences? About their word choice? What effects can you connect to their style? Please include a short passage from each writer as an example of what you noticed in the style. Also, please pay attention to things you notice, but don't know how to name or describe.
Another way of thinking about this: if a writer is funny (or sarcastic, or angry, etc.), how does she create that tone stylistically? We want to start noticing, on a technical level, what writers are doing, especially writers who happen to be ourselves.
(Note: Shannon's blog is still not posted, if you are looking for it. I hope to have it up soon. If you read this, Shannon, send the url and link to me!)
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