short stories, diary entries, personal letters, fables, interview transcripts, play scripts, monologues, obituaries, eulogies, prologues, epilogues, film scripts, memoirs, poems, multi-genre pieces, streams of consciousness....
Expository?
essays, news stories, research pieces, reports, biographies, autobiographies, personal letters, obituaries, articles, business reports, memoirs.....
Persuasive?
essays, letters to the editor, editorials, opinion pieces, speeches, parole hearing transcripts, court case transcripts....
These lists are not exhaustive and some text types may overlap the different forms.
What you should do:
- Find a style that suits you and your purpose.
- Collect samples of different styles of writing, even if it does not centre on the same text or theme that you are studying.
- Jot down ideas for pieces of writing
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