1. The Old Timer's Game by Terrence Rafferty
... writer and journalist. The elements that I found most interesting about his writing style are the adjectives, the dialogue with the reader and the sentence variation. This article is enjoyable to read because Rafferty doesn't follow the strict writing rules that we have all been taught during school; he is very conversational ... of sports biographies aimed at juvenile fans" (130). Here is another example of Rafferty's superior use of adjectives. In this sentence he effectively describes different objects with few words, in the words of Donald Hall "Less is more, in prose as in archite...
- Word Count: 1390
- Approx Pages: 6
- Has Bibliography
- Grade Level: Undergraduate