Chapter OCHO! (that would be 8)

Style and Organization
There were several parts of writing listed in this chapter that we can use to make our writing better. Most of it is technical stuff that takes practice to get better at it. These things are style, clarity, coherence, conciseness, delivery, punctuation, usage and voice.
All of these things are very important to language and how our writing is read/ how we get messages across. Of them I think probably the two most important are punctuation and voice. The punctuation makes it so that the reader knows what’s going on. It’s a set of rules to make sure that things are delivered correctly. Voice gives the writing a little personality and makes the reading fun. Many of these include other parts of the language in them. So by getting one of these areas really well done, most of the time you are also incorporating many of the other parts of language that make it good. For example, voice includes word choice, sentence structure, sentence length. Style includes voice, coherence, clarity, and conciseness.
In my own personal writing I’ve always been told that I have really strong voice. I’ve never been really sure if that was a good thing or a bad thing, being from Utah and not always having the best grammar. As for now and after reading this chapter in the book, I’ll just assume it’s a good thing as it is one of the important parts of writing. On the other hand something in my writing that still could use some work is my punctuation. I’m getting better. English has never been something that has come easy to me so I still am not positive on a lot of the rules. I just try to write simply and incorporate that which I remember. Doing this has worked out decently for me so far, but the fact that I don’t know all the rules still makes me a little nervous. Punctuation is bound to be in my paper. It’s just the skeleton of all writing. I’m going to try to stick with my rule of keeping it simple so that I don’t get in trouble for wrong usage, and also so that it’s simple for the reader to read.
Another thing that I’ll be using in my paper is delivery. This is an important section of language also. This is what we have been studying all semester long in this class. The way we deliver things makes all the difference in the world of how the reader forms their thoughts and whiter they agree with us or not. It’s all about rhetoric and organization. Organization is something that I struggled with at the beginning of writing my paper. It was all over the place and I wasn’t sure how to best fit things to make my argument persuasive. With a little help from Mr. Keeley, and a lot of time and energy on my part, I got my research paper in a better order. I hope that it will be effective.