As an exercise to broaden stylistic flexibility in their writing, students in Editing Documents were given an assignment in which they had to mimic the style of an existing genre. This piece is a parody of scientific writing, using the language and grammatical conventions of the field to create a humorous research article. The subject of the fictitious article is the correlation between cats not being fed and the amount of noise they make. Students also had the alternative option to imitate the structure and style of a pastoral magazine article on Tobacco Barns.
