Comp Notes
Comp Notes is a podcast for college students in first-year writing courses. We'll cover the concepts you'll discuss in class, giving you a chance to reinforce or grow your understanding of them.
Comp Notes
Style
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Mark Sutton
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This episode looks at some of the choices writers can make that affect our writing style.
Additional information: (Note: You may also want to check out the links in episode 10: Editing)
- Purdue OWL's "Diction Introduction" and "Levels of Diction"
- Grammarly's "What does 'Connotation' Mean? Definition and Examples"
- Quillbot's "What is Connotation? Definition, Meaning, & Examples"
- Brian Ray's "Style: An Introduction to History, Theory, Research, and Pedagogy"
- Silva Rhetoricae's:
- "Style"
- "Levels of Style"
- "Figures of Speech" (use the links at the top of the page to get to specific examples of tropes and schemes)
- Write to Done's "28 Figure of Speech Examples"
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