Part II: Chapter-by-Chapter Lecture Notes &
Exercises
Chapter 4: Using an Appropriate Style
Teaching Suggestions
This chapter and the next contains a great deal of advice about wring. One foundaonal point deserves
special emphasis: what counts as a good style or even clear wring depends on the situaon. Every
word, sentence, and paragraph needs to be judged in light of the writer’s goals and the readers’ likely
reacons. That is why we focus on “adaptaon” at the start of this chapter.
Illustraon and demonstraon are essenal to students’ understanding of the word-choice advice in this
chapter. The examples on the PowerPoint® slides augment those in the book, and you can add various
examples of your own.
The exercises at the end of the chapter enable students to learn by doing.