Style has becamebecome one of the major strengths of a good writer. When you create a piece of writing that contains all you set out to accomplish, includes no words that stray from your purpose, and are logically coherent without excess, you have achieved style. Notice the phrase, “create a piece of writing“. Style rarely just happens; instead, your writing has to be worked at, crafted, rewritten, revised, and rearranged. Your first draft is like the piece of marble that sculptors select. They visualize how to begin, and start carving with large tools like hammers or chisels. As the sculpture progresses, they use finer tools to remove smaller pieces of marble, and when they have reached the final stage, they polish the sculpture and place it on its base for display. Marble sculptures are beautiful to observe, are completleycompletely finished, and serve the purpose of portraying a subject, a person or an object, clearly. Your writing should go through a similar process of close revision until the final product is also beautiful to look at, completely revised, and serves it’sits purpose.