Parallelism

The Crocker Science House advertisement fails to use parallelism in its listing of accommodations and historical facts. It is most likely that they are written incorrectly because the writer hadn't considered the possible unity that could have been achieved through parallelism, even in a list form. The problem with the list, is the occasional referral to the Crocker House. It would be more appropriate to omit the Crocker House as the subject as it was already previously referred to in the add. In other words, everyone already knows that the accommodations and histories list is talking about the Crocker House and therefore the subject does not need to be double stated.

It is possible that because they were discussing two aspects of the Crocker House (accommodations and history) that they thought it necessary to refer back to it. However even if this were the case, it would make most sense to divide the list according to accommodations and then provide the historical facts, both of which should be presented without mentioning the name of the residency over again. Another possibility is that they wanted to use repetition of the subject in order to drill it into the minds of the readers. If this were the case, the subject ought to have been mentioned in each bullet.

In Peers Educating to End Rape, the bulleted list loses its parallelism when it simply lists the www for their website. All the other bullets begin with a verb, making them unified in intent. That is, they want people to take action. Therefore, "visit us at" would have been an appropriate introduction to the website information as it would have continued that unification.

This may have been a derealized list by the writer, not realizing that each of the other bullets began with a verb. However, more likely is that they wanted the website information to stand away from the rest of the list. Without a verb at the beginning, the website "doesn't belong" like playing the elementary game "one of these things is not like the other" with your subconscious.