Throughout Mike Bunn’s essay, I realized he altered from formal speech to informal effortlessly. He engaged the reader within the first few paragraphs with irony and specific wording to target a certain audience. Whether considered a technique or strategy, I would like to practice and know when using formality and informality is appropriate. The common lighthearted tone that also got a clear message across immersed me to keep anticipating more from his pieces of advice. I would plan to use it the same way Bunn had advised under the section titled “Is this the kind of writing you will be assigned to write yourself.”; Examine the technique he used that gained my interest and the parts of his essay that stood out to me ultimately and adopt a similar