... you, then, to create an appropriate tone and to avoid pomposity, say, or will put readers off. Here are a few examples of how skillful writers make tone work for them. Tone Toward Subject Toward ... conversation are to inform, or to be informed, to please or to persuade, wish well meaning sensible men would not lessen their power of doing good by a positive assuming manner that seldom fails to disgust, ... www.tailieuduhoc.org CHAPTER 11 Point of View, Persona, and Tone Point of View Thus far we have looked at how to begin and end essays and how to help readers follow the flow of thought. It remains to consider...