FOUR DIFFERENT TYPES OF WRITING STYLES

FOUR DIFFERENT TYPES OF WRITING STYLES

1. SOME WRITING SAMPLE
#1 WRITING
Writing is one of the most marvelous things ever invented by man. Indeed, our present civilization
depends largely upon writing. But for this, the nations of the world would at this very moment know little
about one another and would still be in the state of ignorance and semi-savagery.
Who was the creator of this marvelous invention? Some cavemen most likely, a man in appearance more
like an ape; yet a man who was filled with the desire to make some lasting record of the strange things he
saw around him. This man was also the world's first artist, for the first writing was picture writing and took
the form of the bears and stags and other animals which lived in the forest round the caveman's home.
You may ask, “How do we know this?” The answer is that, in certain parts of the world, there are caves
on the walls of which, such pictures maybe seen drawn or painted several thousand years ago. These
ancient cavemen had minds like small children's just as they will draw pictures of houses and cows and
men and women long before they learn to write.

#1.1 FOUR DIFFERENT TYPES OF WRITING STYLES
Four Different Types of Writing Styles: Expository, Descriptive, Persuasive and Narrative.
1. EXPOSITORY WRITING:
Expository writing is a subject-oriented writing style, in which the main focus of the author is to
tell you about a given topic or subject, and leave out his personal opinions. He furnishes you with
relevant facts and figures and does not include his opinions. This is one of the most common types
of writing styles, which you always see in text books and usually “How –to” articles, in which the
author tells you about a given subject, as how to do something.
KEY POINTS;
• Expository writing usually explains something in a process
• Expository writing is often equipped with facts and figures
• Expository writing is usually in a logical order and sequence
2. DESCRIPTIVE WRITING:
Descriptive writing is a style of writing which focuses on describing a character, an event or a place
in great details. It is sometimes poetic in nature in which the author is specifying the details of the
event rather than just the information of that event happened.
Example:

In descriptive writing, the author will not just say:
“The vampire killed his lover”
He will change the sentence, focusing on more details and descriptions, like:
“The red -eyed, bloody vampire, flushed his rusty teeth into the soft skin of his lover, and ended
her life.”
Key Points:

2. • It is often poetic in nature
• It describes places, people, events, situations or locations in a highly-detailed manner.
• The author visualizes you what he sees, hears, tastes, smells and feels.
3. PERSUASIVE WRITING:
Persuasive writing, unlike „Expository Writing‟, contains the opinions, biasness and justification
of the author. Persuasive writing is a type of writing which contains justifications and reasons to
make someone believe on the point the writer is talking about. Persuasive writing is for
persuading and convincing on your point of view. It is often used in complain letters, when you
provide reasons and justifications for your complaint; other copywriting texts, T.V commercials,
affiliate marketing pitches etc. are all different types of persuasive writing, where author is
persuading and convincing you on something he wants you to do and/or believe.

Key Points:
• Persuasive writing is equipped with reasons, arguments and justifications
• In persuasive writing, the author takes a stand and asks you to believe his point of view.
• If often asks for a call or an action from the readers.
4. NARRATIVE WRITING:
Narrative writing is a type of writing in which the author places himself as the character and
narrates you to the story. Novels, short stories, novellas, poetry, biographies can all fall in the
narrative writing style. Simply, narrative writing is an art to describe a story. It answers the
question: “What happened then?”

Key Points:
• In narrative writing, a person, being a narrative, tells a story or event.
• Narrative writing has characters and dialogues in it.
• Narrative writing has definite and logical beginnings, intervals and endings.

Narrative writing often has situations like disputes, conflicts, actions, motivational events,
problems and their solutions

#2 FAITH
Faith is a powerful medicine. Why does faith appear to have such a powerful protective effect? Experts
offer several possible explanations.
Going to religious services guarantees contact with people. Social support is a well-documented key to
health and longevity.
Faith gives a sense of hope and control that counteracts stress. Commitment to a system of beliefs enables
people to better handle traumatic illness, suffering and loss.
Praying evokes beneficial changes in the body. When people pray, they experience the same decrease in
blood pressure, metabolism, heart and breathing rates as the famous “relaxation response”. Reciting the
rosary, for example, involves the same steps as the relaxation response: repeating a word, prayer, phrase

3. or sound, and returning to the repetition when other thoughts intrude. Those who choose a religious
phrase are more likely to benefit if they believe in God.

#3 EUTHANASIA
Euthanasia, or mercy killing, should be a choice for a patient who has an incurable disease and does not
want to live anymore. A doctor should be able to help a patient die by injecting or giving a lethal drug.
This is a very controversial idea, and many people say it is unethical for a doctor to kill someone. I believe
that euthanasia should be legal, because it is a way for people to end their own suffering.
Some suffering in life may be a normal thing that a person must learn to accept. It is also true that some
suffering can be addressed with pain-killers or therapy. However, some suffering cannot be relieved by
drugs. For patients who are in such pain, every day is just a terrible struggle.
There are several countries around the world that allow organizations or doctors to help patients die. In
parts of United States, such as the state of Oregon, people are also beginning to recognize the importance
of legalizing physician-assisted suicide. As the population of United States ages, this is going to become a
bigger and bigger issue with more and more of the elderly wanting to end their lives painlessly.

#4 TRUTH
Beware of those who use the truth to deceive. When someone tells you something that is true, but leaves
out important information that should be included, he can create a false impression.
For example, someone might say, “I just won a hundred dollars on the lottery. It was great. I took that
dollar ticket back to the store and turned it in for one hundred dollars!”
This guy’s a winner, right? Maybe, maybe not. We then discover that he bought two hundred tickets, and
only one was a winner. He’s really a big loser! He didn’t say anything that was false, but he deliberately
omitted important information. That’s called a half-truth. Half-truths are not technically lies, but they are
just as dishonest.
Untrustworthy candidates in political campaigns often use this tactic. Let’s say that during Governor
Smith’s last term, her state lost one million jobs and gained three million jobs. Then she seeks another
term. One of her opponents runs an ad saying, “During Governor Smith’s term, the state lost one million
jobs!” That’s true. However, an honest statement would have been, “During Governor Smith’s term, the
state had a net gain of two million jobs.”
Advertisers will sometimes use half-truths. It’s against the law to make false claims so they try to mislead
you with the truth. An ad might boast, “Nine out of ten doctors recommend Yucky Pills to cure nose
pimples.” It fails to mention that they only asked ten doctors and nine of them work for the Yucky
Corporation.
This kind of deception happens too often. It’s a sad fact of life: Lies are lies, and sometimes the truth can
lie as well.
#5 POVERTY

4. People think of poverty, as a great evil, and it seems to be an accepted belief that, if people had plenty of
money, they would be happy and useful and get more out of it. As a rule, there is more genuine
satisfaction in life, and more obtained from life in a humble cottage of the poor men than in the palaces
of rich. I always pity the sons and daughters of rich men who are attended by servants and governess at
a large stage; at the same time, I am glad to think they do not know what they have missed.
It is because I know how sweet and happy and pure the home of honest poverty is, how free from
perplexing cares and from social envies and jealousies—how loving and united members are in the
common interest of supporting the family. It is for these reasons that from the ranks of the poor so many
strong eminent self-reliant men have always sprung and must always spring. If you read the best of the
immortals, who were born not to die, you will find that most of them were born poor.

#6 SELF-RELIANCE
Self-reliance is the pilgrim’s best staff, the worker’s best tool. It is the master key that unlocks all the
difficulties of life. “Help yourself and Heaven will help you” is a maxim, which receives daily confirmation.
Help from within always strengthens; but ready help from others invariably weakens the recipient. The
habit of depending on others tends to weaken the intellectual faculties and paralyze the judgement, (for
it leaves no chance for you to learn from your own mistakes and thereby destroying your ability of
correcting yourself). The struggle against adverse circumstances has, on the contrary, a strengthening
effect, like that of the pure mountain air on any enfeebled frame.
This is a lesson, which is not taught in schools nowadays. The vice of modern system of education is that
it lays down too many royal roads to knowledge. The difficulties, which formerly compelled the student
to think and labor for himself, are now most carefully removed. The race of thorough and complete
scholars is dying out. Our young man is equipped with manuals that explain everything and guides that go
everywhere, that they find no occasion for thought. Why take any trouble at all when so many are willing
to relieve you of it?

#7 STRESS
Stress is a twentieth century illness. The pressures on all of us are very great because speed and
competition have become part of everyday life. Social isolation, overcrowding, the competitiveness of our
society and several other factors are responsible for stress. We often refer to competition in society as
‘rat race’. Some of us get tired easily; others get depressed; others are often irritable or worried, and so
on. The rat-race affects everybody in society, from teenagers to elderly people. There is always something
that worries us. Sometimes the stresses on us are too great. We fall out of the race and have a nervous
breakdown. Extreme cases of illness may even lead to suicide. There is hope because only some people
crack while most others do not.