Jasmine Cheatham
11/10/14

In this lesson it talks about how your sentences should flow and balance out. The title of this lesson is Elegance. Authors should give their readers something that makes them want to keep reading, something that will draw their attention and gives them pleasure every time they recall something they read. Just like first impressions you want to stand out and give people something memorable about you. If you don’t give them something memorable then you just blend in with everyone else.  By having balance in your writing you can talk about your topics and ideas by lurching one part to the next.  By having these series of movements your paper is more appealing to your audience. But it is also acceptable to have uncoordinated balance in your writing. When your writing has uncoordinated balance you can balance structures that are not grammatically coordinated. This means that your subordinate clauses can balance out your main clause. This form of writing can help your readers think of ways that they wouldn’t.  I just learned this through this book because I was taught that this format of writing was grammatically incorrect and wouldn’t be acceptable. When ending a sentence you should end the sentence with words that deserve stress. This creates strength to your writing and readers. Also in this lesson it talks about sentence length, the length of your sentence can set a tone to your writing. To sum it up elegant writing should have simplicity of characters as subjects and actions as verbs, complexity of balances syntax, meaning, sound and rhythm as well as emphasis on artful stressed endings.  One thing that really stuck with me was that the authors stated you can’t have elegant writing by reading this book it is something that will or will not naturally occur.