College Composition / Unit 18 CMP 0429 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Tone
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The idea
Tone is the writer's attitude toward the subject and the audience, as readers perceive it.
In practice
Word choice, sentence style and pacing can make a writer sound admiring, sarcastic, neutral, angry, authoritative or uncertain.
Where people slip
Readers judge tone from the words on the page, not from what the writer felt while writing.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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