Writing Book 6 · Lesson 17

Formality

The level of formality is set by who will read it and why.

What you read today

Essay Voyage, pages 69–74 — the chapter Formality.

This lesson's text is the book itself. Your teacher has the pages; read them with the class, then do the work on your sheet.

Remember
Read it as a writer: not only what happens, but what the author did to make it happen that way.
Ask yourself: “Who is going to read this, and what do they expect?”

Remember

Formality is a choice about your reader, not about yourself.

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