By: Melissa Donovan
Each writer has a distinct style. We repeat certain words
and expressions; there are patterns in how we arrange words in sentences and
paragraphs, and our writing often carries a recognizable tone.
The term for an author’s distinct writing style is voice.
Wikipedia defines a writer’s voice as “a combination of
their common usage of syntax, diction, punctuation, character development,
dialogue, etc., within a given body of text (or across several works).”
In college literature courses, my class would be given a
long list of quotes, and we had to identify the author of each one. The
professors didn’t expect us to memorize the entire literary canon; we were to
have studied these authors’ works enough to be able to identify their quotes by
the voice.
Imagine someone reading a snippet a text and knowing that
you wrote it! That’s style.
How to Develop Your Writing Style
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