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  1. Oct 2025
    1. Which version is more likely to appeal to readers? You can try to an-swer this question by thinking about the advantages and disadvan-tages of using formal language. When would you want to use formallanguage in your writing and when would it make more sense to bemore conversational

      These are all questions that we should be asking as we are writing our papers. Depending on the type of paper we are writing, it is important to use correct and appropriate wording or phrasing.

    2. It’s important to read with a pen or highlighter in your hand so thatyou can mark—right on the text—all those spots where you identifyan interesting choice the author has made or a writerly technique youmight want to use

      This is important information to use when we are preparing to write a paper because it helps to build potential information that we can use in writing in the future.

    3. Instead of reading for content or to better understand the ideas inthe writing (which you will automatically do to some degree anyway),you are trying to understand how the piece of writing was put togetherby the author and what you can learn about writing by reading a par-ticular text.

      This is important to the writing process because it teaches us a new method with how we should retain information, or potentially write information down with more emphasis on how we say certain things. This makes this very important for the writing process.