1. High - Formal and scholarly
2. Middle - In between formality and casualty, and very clear.
3. Low - Everyday casualty, informal, or humorous.
Style has its components towards effectiveness. First of all, vocabulary plays a role in style. Would a businessman be more convinced through an essay written in slang or in a scholarly manner compared to an arbitrary high school student? An argument on statistics or a serious issue, such as death and third-world issues, is best not to be written in humorous terms. Also, the intensity of the word choice affects the direction in which the audience is steered towards. Does the author want to veer the public towards enforcing gay rights or banning the use of marijuana? How convincing the argument is depends on the familiarity of the word choice as well. The audience will likely be drawn if they are able to comprehend with simple, brief, or pithy words rather than trying to decipher bombastic terms that only 1 out of 1,000,000 of the public know by heart.
Secondly, sentence structure also affect an argument's style. YouTube celebrity Kevjumba looks at it as a concept of candy and relationships. Men might look at this as "girls are like M&Ms"; you can't just eat the yellow ones (don't just date people from your own race)! Why? Because that's RACIST! Thus, why is the public attracted to these chocolates if they can buy chocolates somewhere else? The simple reason lies in the fact that M&Ms are COLORFUL!!!! No one would like M&Ms if it were all blue or red. People are more attracted to the variety of color in each bag. The same goes with Smarties, Spree, Sweet Tarts, etc. Now apply candy to an argument's style. Sentence length in an argument should vary as M&M color should vary to attract more attention. Not many people would be willing to listen to a speech or read an article if it contained the same color (sentence length).
Third, punctuation strikes style as well. A variation in uncommonly used punctuation can also serve a purpose in uniqueness in an argument. The semicolon is used to signify a stronger pause than a comma, Exclamation marks are meant to translate the author's desperate and strong feelings to the audience. The question mark is mostly used for rhetorical questions to convince an audience to ask the question themselves and provide a stepping stool for a deeper and more profound path of thinking. The colon introduces a list of words, phrases, or sentences and separates one from another. Dashes are a more immediate means to add a comment or a remark to a most recent phrase or sentence. Ellipses are used for transitions, as a fast-forward button is for on a television remote control. Other special effects used in producing style are comparisons (similes, analogies, etc.), anecdotes, hyperboles, symbolism. antonomasia, irony, and schemes (parallelism, antithesis, etc.).
To me, style is all art. Some people like surreal, while others like realistic or comic strips. The same people will prefer humorous arguments over, let's say, professional or casual. Style determines the uniqueness and how much of it can spread throughout a certain region. To put it in Pokemon-ism terms, becoming a Pokemon master is not that you tamed or caught Pokemon, but how you managed to do so.
Secondly, sentence structure also affect an argument's style. YouTube celebrity Kevjumba looks at it as a concept of candy and relationships. Men might look at this as "girls are like M&Ms"; you can't just eat the yellow ones (don't just date people from your own race)! Why? Because that's RACIST! Thus, why is the public attracted to these chocolates if they can buy chocolates somewhere else? The simple reason lies in the fact that M&Ms are COLORFUL!!!! No one would like M&Ms if it were all blue or red. People are more attracted to the variety of color in each bag. The same goes with Smarties, Spree, Sweet Tarts, etc. Now apply candy to an argument's style. Sentence length in an argument should vary as M&M color should vary to attract more attention. Not many people would be willing to listen to a speech or read an article if it contained the same color (sentence length).
Third, punctuation strikes style as well. A variation in uncommonly used punctuation can also serve a purpose in uniqueness in an argument. The semicolon is used to signify a stronger pause than a comma, Exclamation marks are meant to translate the author's desperate and strong feelings to the audience. The question mark is mostly used for rhetorical questions to convince an audience to ask the question themselves and provide a stepping stool for a deeper and more profound path of thinking. The colon introduces a list of words, phrases, or sentences and separates one from another. Dashes are a more immediate means to add a comment or a remark to a most recent phrase or sentence. Ellipses are used for transitions, as a fast-forward button is for on a television remote control. Other special effects used in producing style are comparisons (similes, analogies, etc.), anecdotes, hyperboles, symbolism. antonomasia, irony, and schemes (parallelism, antithesis, etc.).
To me, style is all art. Some people like surreal, while others like realistic or comic strips. The same people will prefer humorous arguments over, let's say, professional or casual. Style determines the uniqueness and how much of it can spread throughout a certain region. To put it in Pokemon-ism terms, becoming a Pokemon master is not that you tamed or caught Pokemon, but how you managed to do so.
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