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writing style

writing style

13 3.4
The way a person uses words and sentences to share ideas on paper or screen
  • noun
  • /ˈraɪtɪŋ staɪl/
translation icon : estilo de escritura
  • Each contest is different and encourages a variety of writing styles.
  • a new writing style

In fact, I, I think his, his writing style is in fact quite good.

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Examples

  • The writing was clean overall, and the writing style was easy to read.

    Blog text (14)
  • Her writing style is characterized by vivid imagery and emotional depth.

  • I mean still the same really beautiful writing style, but a very different feeling.

  • I love your writing style and I love your thinking style.

  • When provided opportunities to write, students learn to develop their writing style.

    Academic text (2006)
  • The book experiments with writing style as much as subject matter.

  • You both have different writing styles.

  • I agree that he is a better teacher of writing style than some staid "masters."

    Blog text (11)
  • Other information requested pertained to writing style and the use of photographs.

    Academic text (2002)
  • And so it went, century after century, with alphabets and writing styles evolving to suit the needs and tastes of the times.

    Academic text (2007)

Synonyms

writing
vswriting style
206 1.1

How an author uses words and sentences in their texts

focuses on a person's distinctive manner and structure in texts

How Formal

formal
  • Formal
63 3.0
writing style
13 3.4
colloquial
  • Informal
7 6.5

Surface Forms

writing style singular

Morphology

writing + style

The meaning 'the distinctive manner of expressing ideas in writing' is directly and compositionally derived from 'writing' (written language) + 'style' (manner or way), so a learner who knows both words can readily infer the phrase. This head–modifier compound is a common, cross-linguistic pattern and follows standard English noun–noun/nominal phrase composition, making it immediately comprehensible at B1.

Etymology

Writing style comes from a simple image: writing is the words a person puts on the page and style is their personal 'look' or 'way'. So writing style means someone's own way of expressing ideas in writing.