Chapter 16 Summary

Chapter 16 extensively focuses on writing with style and polishing what you write or have written. The first section goes over ways to write with style and what that means.  Understanding your writing situation is a key premise to writing with style.  Understanding your writing style means asking yourself who the audience is, what type of document you are writing, and making sure you write clearly. Removing modifiers, stock phrases, and introductory phrases is the main goal of this section.  Another way of writing with style is to use active and passive voices effectively. An active voice would be Scott is writing the summary. The better passive voice would be the summary is written. These both can be used effectively depending on the situation. The next goal would be to adopt a consistent point of view. Specialized language is important to communicate with your readers. Depending on the readers, you should familiarize with the terms that will reach your audience more effectively. 16b of the chapter goes over polishing your writing style.  Tips to help you do this are varying your sentence structure, creating effective transitions, avoiding sexist language, and introducing authors effectively.