Chapter 13: Everything's an Argument

When styling an argument, most can be broken down into three different categories which are:

High: Formal or ornate (formal, high minded,serious)
Middle: Understated and very clear (most ordinary arguments)
Low: Everyday or humorous (informal and colloquial)
Then each of these three categories can be broken down even further into four sub-categories:

Style and word choice
Sentence Structure and Argument
Punctuation and argument
Special Effects

In this chapter, the most recognizable part for me was two of the sub-categories which were "Sentence Structure and Argument" and "Style and Word Choice". I chose these two because, I think they are the most important out of the four. When someone is reading your argument and you have incomplete sentences and are using slang in place of educated words, you can most likely expect a consumer to put down your argument. When developing your argument you want to make sure you are perceived as being confident in your work, not using slang or uneducated words that make you look lazy and uneducated. Just as the book says, you need sentence variety to keep the audience enticed in your argument. For example if you started every sentence of your argument with the subject first, you omit the use of all transitional phrases which can be used to catch the readers attention. Now going back to word choice, like I said before, no one wants to read an argument where the author has written it in terms that are uneducated. Don't get me wrong slang can sometimes be effective but most of the time it bewilders the readers which usually confuses and irritates them. There is nothing that will keep them entertained so that's why we use persuasive and enticing words to keep them interested. It usually represents your style of writing more than anything so you want your words to match the tone you are using in your argument as well as the subject of your argument. Usually for most academic arguments, the type of language used is a formal style.