x8: Subordinating and Additive Styles

• Becca Gil, “Subordinate, or Hypotactic, vs. Additive and Conversational Writing”
• Anna Lamb, “The Greeks Had Style”
• Ben Schwab, “Plan the Structured . . . and the Spontaneous?”

Questions

1. How well does the writer understand and apply the lessons taught by (a) Stanley Fish, and (b) the sentences they quote and analyze?
2. Where does the writer make interesting use of hypotaxis or parataxis in her or his own prose?
3. Point to some interesting sentences that are neither hypotactic or paratactic, or that are both.
4. Point to a passage that you’d say is characteristic of the writer’s—Becca, Anna, Ben—own style. How would you describe that style?

x9: Gender and Style

To Do

1. Mon, 4/02, class: Read Woolf, A Room of One’s Own, chapters 1–3
2. Wed, 4/04, class: Finish Woolf
3. Fri, 4/06, 9:00 am: Post x9 to Dropbox