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Style & Prescriptivism
Official Style vs Prescriptivism - The first is generally considered to be bad writing but the second often includes bad advice.
Academic Style
The Basic Tenets
Prescriptivism
While Prescriptivism is often used negatively, it does have a place when discussing Academic Style because all STYLES are prescriptive. To learn more about the difference between Prescriptive and Descriptive Linguistics and Grammar versus Syntax, see here.
HEDGING (Good vs. Bad)
PARALLELISM
Cliches
Literary Style
Literary Styles are numerous and very subjective and different readers have preferences in the same way people have preferences for certain genres of film.
Eye Dialect
Too Many Adjectives (Matt Ruff)
Style, Tone, Mood
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