Week: 5 Styles

I chose to do the portfolio project instead of the storybook project because of time constraints. For this project I chose five different styles of writing which would be: diary, news reporter, courtroom, narration, and historical. I chose these five specifically because I see and read these kind of styles the most, and some styles just seem interesting to put context into. Not only that but I would like to see how my stories turn out after I write them in these different styles, and just analyze how much description goes into each style of story, and how each character is developed.

The first type of style I chose was the diary. I personally never written a diary so I have no clue how to go about writing one. I probably would have to put myself in the characters shoes and think about his or hers emotions and vent it out on Microsoft Word. This would not be my first choice of writing style because I don’t know how to write diaries. But this kind of writing would be great to emphasize on the characters feelings, and point of view on situations happening in the story.

The second style of writing I chose was the news reporter style. The story can be told in a way it is told on the news, where it informs the viewers of what happened and how it happened. This kind of writing would be easy to write as I do watch the news and I think it would be easy to just write in an informative way. Some of advantages of this style of writing would be it would not really that much of a bias toward any character, things will just be told to the reader, another advantage would be that it would cover all the characters side of their story.

The third style of writing I chose was the courtroom writing style. This style of writing would also be easy to write because it wouldn't require me to involve emotional stuff. It would just require me to tell all sides of the story and get every character involved in the situation the court is being held over. This way all the characters point of view will be conveyed and also the story will also be told, and the read will be able to choose on whose side of the story is better and also who to believe.

The fourth style of writing I chose was the narration style. This style is what most typical stories are written in. in this kind of writing style the story would be told from an unbiased storyteller so the story will be convey without any bias toward a particular character. The judgment of characters will then be left to the reader and it would be a fair judgment. In this form of writing it will also be easy to go through conversations between different people and also involve what each character would be thinking at the time.

The fifth and final style of writing I chose was the historical style. This style would be super easy to write in as it would completely informative. It would just a timeline of events that is happening, and then the cause and effect can be discussed. It would also be easier to analyze the whole situation, because only the facts are known. The weakness of this style of writing would be that the characters emotions and point of view would be left out, so would the conversations. This would be bad because the reader would not be able to get an insight into the character.