Notes 4/19- Essays, letters, and other text

Essays, letters, other text

• Interesting
• Meaningful/insightful
• "Flow"- ideas proceed naturally and logically, prose is clear and appropriate  
• Stays on topic
• Not meant to limit or define the way to talk about a subject, but don't go off onto topics so that your audience doesn't know what you're talking about.
• "Correct" grammar
• Usually use standard English
• Mechanically correct
• To not punctuate correctly is like a speech impediment--always be mechanically correct. 
• Clear purpose
• Generally through stating it in one sentence, generally a thesis statement.
• Clear audience
• Tone
• Appropriate to your purpose and your audience