Part 4: Writing to Evaluate Mortimer's Style

Which question should writers ask in order to consider their audience?

Who will read my writing?

Which of these are examples of strong evidence? Check all that apply.

evidence that is specific to the topic evidence that is directly related to the topic evidence that is substantial enough to fully support the topic

The purpose of adding relevant evidence to a paragraph is to

support a point.

To make their language as precise as possible, writers should consider ______ , or suggested meanings, of words.

connotations

In what way is the second sentence effective? Read the passage from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England. 1.) It is easy to write the line "people starve to death"; it is much harder to deal with the harsh reality. 2.) But you need to understand this point, if only to see how little choice you might have in what you eat. 3.) The itinerant poor might literally die in the street.

It emphasizes why this passage is important to the reader personally.

Which is the best way to revise the sentence to include more precise wording? Read the sentence. Lots of writers have written good stuff other than books, like stuff for movies.

Modern novelists often expand to other genres, such as screenwriting.

The author's objective tone is effective because it helps readers to Read the passage from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England. If you want to know which years are a good time to visit and which years to avoid, the following is a guide to the extremes. The years of greatest plenty—i.e., those in which the price of grain is 20 percent or more below the average—are 1564, 1566, 1569-71, 1583-84, 1587-88, 1592-93, and 1602, the very best being 1592 and 1593, when grain prices are just 56 percent and 65 percent of the average.

analyze the information logically.

The evidence in the passage is strong because it Read the passage from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England. Perhaps the most difficult thing to come to terms with is the scale of death. Influenza, for example, is an affliction which you no doubt have come across. However, you have never encountered anything like Elizabethan flu. It arrives in December 1557 and lasts for eighteen months. In the ten-month period August 1558 to May 1559 the annual death rate almost trebles to 7.2 percent (normally it is 2.5 percent). More than 150,000 people die from it—5 percent of the population. This is proportionally much worse than the great influenza pandemic of 1918-19 (0.53 percent mortality).

is relevant to the topic.

When a reader evaluates an author's style, the reader

judges it in a careful and thoughtful way.

To analyze an author's style, which elements should the reader identify? Check all that apply.

point of view tone word choice