Blog Prompt 1

The book that I read over the past week was entitled "Writing: a Workshop Guide". After reading Chapter 4 in our book, I was able to see the writing styles portrayed in our personal reading assignment. In Chapter 4, both Fulkerson as well as Berlin break down the different styles of writing. Although the personal reading could be closely related to Fulkerson's description of Rhetorical, Formalist, and some Expressive characteristics. The Formalist style of the book as discribed by Fulkerson focuses on format of a writing, such as the margin size and font size. The first couple chapters of the book touch on organization of thoughts as well as organization of paragraph form. The expressive portion of the book comes towards middle and end of the book when examples are given of personal writings about life and inspirational figures. Expressive writing according to Fulkerson is writings about an internal voice and personal journals. The final chapters of the book show examples of what Fulkerson refers to as Rhetorical writings. These are writings that deal with persuasion and reader responses. The "writing" book covers multiple writing styles but in general, the book an expressive book with examples of writing samples.