ABSTRACT
Style is choice. One's writing style is the sum total of all the structural and rhetorical choices one tends to make on a consistent basis. Advisors can be of far greater help by focusing on their advisee's habitual style—not just on the details of a particular manuscript. This chapter offers a way for advisors to do just that, using a slow-motion, one-on-one, analytical process that need take no more than 30 minutes. Once the advisee's bad habits have been eliminated, subsequent writing products will be submitted in a much clearer, better reasoned, and far more readable form, saving the advisor many hours of future editorial or advisory effort. All of Reader Expectation Approach (REA) is based on a single concept: Readers take the great majority of their clues for the interpretive process not from word choice, nor from word meaning, but rather from the structural location of words.
