I believe one of her writerly choices was introducing what taxidermy was. I would have never known what taxidermy was, or even bothered to learn more about taxidermy. Being a journalist makes you have to cover stories that is out of your norm. If i hadn;t read her article I would still to this day think that taxidermy was all about people killing animals.
Another writierly choice that she presents is when she starts to show the passion and commitment that the taxidermists have for taxidermy. She shows another side that people who would have never known what taxidermy was would think it was just crazy people playing with dead animals and sometimes even slaughtering them. But that was the reason why Orlean had wrote the article was to inform them that there is more to see than what your eyes are actually seeing.
Another writerly choice Orlean uses is her term of words. In one point she uses the words "zoology nerd" At this point she is trying to describe what a taxidermist has to be able to do and be really good at it. She uses Nerd because everyone knows the term as to what a nerd actually is. A nerd is basically a person who knows so much about a topic and knows what to do and is quick to answer any question on the subject. I believe it adds a bit of comedy also. Everyone laughs at the word "nerd" so maybe that's what she was trying to get at?
I think when they are all put together properly it makes orlean's paper amazing. It was very interesting.
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