During class I was particularly interested in the discussion of style vs. substance. I found the scale we talked about in class interesting as well. Particularly what was interesting was that the more substantial a writing was the more plain of a style it would have. Though I agree that highly ornamental style would distract form the facts from scientific writing I think that at the same time a highly plain style would cause the reader to loose interest. If the author was merely stating scientific fact without any more interesting stylistic choices no matter their level of interest any reader may find it hard to follow. So, basically what I am saying that even the most substantial of writing, though requiring a plainer style, style should never be fully plain.
As more often than not, I had trouble finding a classmate's blogpost which I could respond to so instead I would like to respond to the fact that several of the blogs I found not only did not have recent posts based on our reading, some did not even have the essays. The first blog I found had nothing more recent than the imitatio response posted on it. So in response to my classmate's blogposts I would like to ask "Why do so few of my classmates bother to post?"
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