Stomp the Yard

The final battle sequence in "Stomp the Yard" compares to chapter 7 in Trimble's book. The chapter was about readability, and how it's alright to be informal with your reader. Trimble suggests that the writer must find a middle ground between informal and formal, quoting Somerset Maugham when he said, "good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man." In Stomp the Yard, the protagonist finds this middle ground in dancing; he is on a "formal" step team, but uses "informal" crunking moves from his past dancing days to influence his routine. By mixing informality into the dance, he gives the audience something new to look at that has never been seen before in stepping. In writing, one can mirror this informality by writing a convincing argument using fewer adjectives and adverbs, powerful nouns, and conjunctions.