written style
How words flow
Written style is how a writer uses language—the distinctive choices in vocabulary, sentence structure, tone, and rhythm that make prose recognizable.
Style varies by purpose: academic writing favors precision and hedging, journalism prizes clarity and brevity, literary fiction may embrace complexity or deliberate ambiguity.
Her written style is formal but accessible.
A writer's style emerges from countless small decisions about which words to use and how to arrange them.
- proseUnversified language
- toneQuality of sound
- voiceSound from throat
- active voiceSubject performs the verb
- dictionChoice of words
word choice · turn of phrase · syntax · run-on sentence · eloquent · formal · casual · literary · flowery · purple prose · terse · verbose · clarity · plain English · rhythm · craft · ink · pen
- Chinese dictionariesdictionaries, Chinese-English, English-Chinese, entries, definitions
- Chinese grammarword order, sentence structure, classifiers, negation, syntax rules
written styleconversational style
Informal manner of speaking
oratory · colloquial speech · speech · speech patterns · spoken word
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