Choosing and annotating a style model

Indecisives,

I know choosing a style model for your storytelling/persuasion/information piece can be very daunting (even choosing which style of writing you want to do could be tricky), so here are some things to consider if you still are unsure:

Is it good writing for the target audience and about the right length? Is it challenging enough to show your writing off to best advantage?

You will have to use techniques that the style model uses in order to have a well-annotated style model and an effective commentary (make sure you can see at least one technique from at least 4 of the following frameworks/levels in the style model so that you can quote and analyse them in your commentary and transfer them into your work):

• does it use effective techniques for that audience in terms of discourse e.g. first/second/third person address, effective structuring, level of complexity/formality, rule of three, multi modality?
• does it use effective lexical techniques e.g. puns, metaphors, euphemisms, polysyllabic words, coinage?
• does it use interesting grammatical techniques e.g. dynamic verbs, abstract nouns, embedded clauses, semi-colons, ellipses, starting with a conjunction, adverb fronting, inverted commas?
• graphologically, does it use an interesting combination of image and text, special use of font, blank space, logo, hyperlink (this is also a discourse issue and it is very useful to pick something that combines graphology with another framework/language level)?
• pragmatically, does it use irony, inference, allusion, jargon, play on audience's prior knowledge of a topic or idea?
• phonologically (especially if it is a speech or script but even if it is in written mode), does it play with sound e.g. alliteration, consonance, assonance, rhyme, pun, rhythm, onomatopoeia?

Please let me know if you are having any problems or you want to check your choice as you must have an annotated style model and a draft of your piece and commentary by the time you start back (see 'summer task' post). Remember, your style model must have the same audience, purpose and form as your own piece but must be on a different topic (but still one that would interest the same audience). Please put a word count on your draft.