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The Characteristics and Elements of Language and Words
Welcome to the Library! The articles will help you better understand the elements of language and words. The content comes from the pages of the Logophile Lexicon - Words About Words
Typing the Typeface
TYPES OF WRITING
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There are four types of writing for publication.
EXPOSITORY WRITING
The expository writing style, also called informative writing, is a style of writing that is intended for the dissemination of facts and information. The writer does not influence the piece with their opinion, offer any personal reflections or provide any description biased to any particular point of view.
This type of writing is for textbooks, research papers, news stories, encyclopedias, and instruction manuals. The goal is to explain or instruct with information supported by credible and verifiable facts and figures. It is written in a structured and logical order and the information is in sequence.
You will find expository writing in textbooks at school, in business, technical and scientific journals at work, and at home in recipes and cookbooks, how-to articles in magazines and blogs but most importantly, (hopefully) you’ll find it in journalism as news stories that do not include opinion or editorial components.
PERSUASIVE WRITING
Persuasive writing style, also known as argumentative writing, is intended to convince a reader of a particular idea, view or position on a topic. This writing is characterized by arguments that are supported by logical reasoning and factual data. Persuasive writing is done as commentary from the author's point of view and does not include the opinions of others unless those opinions are being challenged.
For example, a news article that explains a presidential candidate’s opinion on an issue is not persuasive writing but expository writing. An editorial, however, that analyzes the presidential hopeful’s opinion from a specific position is persuasive writing. Persuasive writing is found in editorials, speeches, business ideas, critiques, and reviews.
Persuasive writing is equipped with reasoning, arguments, and justifications. The author takes a position and asks you to agree with them. They justify it in a credible manner. It often asks for readers to do something about the topic (you may recognize this as a call-to-action). This writing is found in opinion and editorial newspaper pieces, advertisements, reviews (of books, music, movie, restaurants, even Yelp, etc) recommendation letters, complaint letters and cover letters.
DESCRIPTIVE WRITING
This writing style is intended to creatively illustrate or describe a particular action, idea, person, place, event, or a sense. In contrast to expository writing, the description is romanticized (maybe in a poetic manner), very detailed, personal, and always subjective. Using descriptive prose, its main goal is to allow the reader to sense, see, and feel the emotions that the writer wants to stir in them. Personal writing is very descriptive. An expository description of the moon, for instance, will state its mass and size, perceived color, makeup and consistency, and any effects scientific in nature to support it. A descriptive writer can describe all of that but from a personal angle by including their academic studies in astrophysics, describe any emotions they feel when stargazing, ponder the effects on the earth, and assign it unique yet arguable characteristics with some observational commentary or introspective truth.
Descriptive writing attempts to captivate the reader and invoke emotions. It is common to poetry, diaries, parts of larger stories, and love letters. It may even be poetic in nature, romanticizing the people and places in the description in detail that is meant to stimulate your imagination, and it provides a visual representation of what the writer sees, feels, or knows.
NARRATIVE WRITING
The author attempts to tell a story in narrative form complete with characters, actions, dialogue, plot, and setting. It is usually fictional but can be non-fictional in some cases provided the structure is properly formatted.. For example, a documentary on a historical event may be narrative if it elaborates on personal relationships, events, impact on society or the groups within one, and then carefully speculates while providing supportive facts.
In narrative writing, the story is the focus, not the facts. Narrative writing will focus on storytelling that surround the facts of a topic or event. These forms are found in novels, screen scripts, plays, stories, and legends. There will be a narrator, have characters and dialogue, be structured with logical sequence and have action scenes that describe conflicts with resolutions.
NARRATIVE TECHNIQUE (also known more narrowly for literary fictional narratives as a literary technique, literary device, or fictional device): is any of several specific methods the creator of a narrative uses to convey what they want. A strategy used in the making of a narrative to relay information to the audience and, particularly, to "develop" the narrative, usually in order to make it more complete, complicated, or interesting. whereas figurative language, irony, or foreshadowing would be considered literary techniques.
EXPOSITORY WRITING
The expository writing style, also called informative writing, is a style of writing that is intended for the dissemination of facts and information. The writer does not influence the piece with their opinion, offer any personal reflections or provide any description biased to any particular point of view.
This type of writing is for textbooks, research papers, news stories, encyclopedias, and instruction manuals. The goal is to explain or instruct with information supported by credible and verifiable facts and figures. It is written in a structured and logical order and the information is in sequence.
You will find expository writing in textbooks at school, in business, technical and scientific journals at work, and at home in recipes and cookbooks, how-to articles in magazines and blogs but most importantly, (hopefully) you’ll find it in journalism as news stories that do not include opinion or editorial components.
PERSUASIVE WRITING
Persuasive writing style, also known as argumentative writing, is intended to convince a reader of a particular idea, view or position on a topic. This writing is characterized by arguments that are supported by logical reasoning and factual data. Persuasive writing is done as commentary from the author's point of view and does not include the opinions of others unless those opinions are being challenged.
For example, a news article that explains a presidential candidate’s opinion on an issue is not persuasive writing but expository writing. An editorial, however, that analyzes the presidential hopeful’s opinion from a specific position is persuasive writing. Persuasive writing is found in editorials, speeches, business ideas, critiques, and reviews.
Persuasive writing is equipped with reasoning, arguments, and justifications. The author takes a position and asks you to agree with them. They justify it in a credible manner. It often asks for readers to do something about the topic (you may recognize this as a call-to-action). This writing is found in opinion and editorial newspaper pieces, advertisements, reviews (of books, music, movie, restaurants, even Yelp, etc) recommendation letters, complaint letters and cover letters.
DESCRIPTIVE WRITING
This writing style is intended to creatively illustrate or describe a particular action, idea, person, place, event, or a sense. In contrast to expository writing, the description is romanticized (maybe in a poetic manner), very detailed, personal, and always subjective. Using descriptive prose, its main goal is to allow the reader to sense, see, and feel the emotions that the writer wants to stir in them. Personal writing is very descriptive. An expository description of the moon, for instance, will state its mass and size, perceived color, makeup and consistency, and any effects scientific in nature to support it. A descriptive writer can describe all of that but from a personal angle by including their academic studies in astrophysics, describe any emotions they feel when stargazing, ponder the effects on the earth, and assign it unique yet arguable characteristics with some observational commentary or introspective truth.
Descriptive writing attempts to captivate the reader and invoke emotions. It is common to poetry, diaries, parts of larger stories, and love letters. It may even be poetic in nature, romanticizing the people and places in the description in detail that is meant to stimulate your imagination, and it provides a visual representation of what the writer sees, feels, or knows.
NARRATIVE WRITING
The author attempts to tell a story in narrative form complete with characters, actions, dialogue, plot, and setting. It is usually fictional but can be non-fictional in some cases provided the structure is properly formatted.. For example, a documentary on a historical event may be narrative if it elaborates on personal relationships, events, impact on society or the groups within one, and then carefully speculates while providing supportive facts.
In narrative writing, the story is the focus, not the facts. Narrative writing will focus on storytelling that surround the facts of a topic or event. These forms are found in novels, screen scripts, plays, stories, and legends. There will be a narrator, have characters and dialogue, be structured with logical sequence and have action scenes that describe conflicts with resolutions.
NARRATIVE TECHNIQUE (also known more narrowly for literary fictional narratives as a literary technique, literary device, or fictional device): is any of several specific methods the creator of a narrative uses to convey what they want. A strategy used in the making of a narrative to relay information to the audience and, particularly, to "develop" the narrative, usually in order to make it more complete, complicated, or interesting. whereas figurative language, irony, or foreshadowing would be considered literary techniques.
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