About style

Submitted by li37 on Wed, 03/05/2008 - 11:05.

From Kennedy’s introductions of Aristotle and Cicero, I can see both of them related “style” to choices of words (p. 90 & p.102). But if style refers to particular person’s use of speech or writing, I guess such personal choice can also include arrangement (not sure). Also, I noticed “style” has been reduced to a few pages of introduction of sentence-level completeness and conciseness in many writing handbook. I just wander whether this can fully cover the issue of style and what the historical development of “style” theory and pedagogy is like.