Summary

The questions from the Core Handbook asked if style was fixed, how does audience effect style, what is genre, and how does genre effect style.  I think that style can be fixed depending on how the author is trying to get their point across.  The author can adapt their style to the subject matter of what they are writing about, or the target audience they are writing to.  For example, if an author is writing a children's book, they are more likely to write in simple terms and "bland" words, then if they were writing an analysis.  A genre is having some sort of particular way of doing a certain work.  If an author is writing an analysis, they are more likely to have paragraphs separated by spaces, in a 12 point font.  On the other hand, if an author is writing a "how-to" they may section things off by numbering.  There is a certain "norm" for different types of genres.  Genre can effect style by the nature of what is being written.  If someone is writing a biology lab report, it is more likely to be very formal and have scientific terms, as opposed to a blog that would be written more with personal opinion and informal writing.