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1. One way that he mixed academic and non-academic language that stood out most clearly to me was his quotes of 'hillbilly', 'hoods', and 'clean-cut'. I thought this was very effective because it tied in to what those genres of people are recognized as in society. They were relevant also to the audience the author was writing for. He also did a good job on defining the term 'hillbilly' if it were to be unclear or unheard of by his audience.
2. I thought a mediocre display of mixing the two languages could be seen when he takes the phrase, 'dig the intellectual bit' from Elvis and uses it in his text.  He did not really expand of what Elvis meant by that rather assuming the audience was to know. Well maybe my brain isn't on or something but I thought it was unclear. I think he could have kept the non-academic language and used it effectively. I think it wasn't effective though because he did not elaborate on what 'digging the intellectual bit' meant in context to his writing.