As a writer, having and delivering your content in the right context matters more than even how skilled you are at writing. What good will it do your audience if your writing abilities are magnificent but they can’t place the context of your writing? There are many ways to help you as a writer deliver the context of your content more precisely. One of these methods includes the use of various styles of writing. There are more than four known different types of styles of writing, but the main four styles include descriptive writing, expository writing, persuasive writing, and narrative writing. Each style is unique, with specific characteristics that enhance the clarity and preciseness of the delivery of the particular context being addressed in the writer’s work. The more appropriate the style of writing, the easier it is for your audience to comprehend your content. Let's take a look at each style of writing and understand how important they are in writing.

Persuasive writing

As the name suggests, persuasive writing entails convincing your audience about the credibility, rationality, and authenticity or in some cases the implausibility of an idea, opinion, or argument. The writer achieves this by including his or her personal opinions in his or her writing, which are accompanied by justifications and evidence to substantially support the writer’s claims. Persuasive writing is suitable for writing letters of recommendation, editorial newspaper articles, argumentative essays for academic papers among others.

Narrative writing

Narrative writing is the most common type of writing for authors. It entails the writer conveying their content in the form of a story. The writer includes characters, conflicts, and settings in their writing. Narrative writing provides an avenue for writers to exhibit their talents and abilities in writing as an art. Narrative writing is used in the writing of poetry, short stories, novels, historical accounts among others.

Expository writing

As the name suggests, the purpose of expository writing is to expose and set forth facts. Expository writing entails the writer addressing a particular topic by introducing it and providing information in a logical order without including his or her personal feelings and opinions. The information provided usually includes statistics, results, facts, verified historical data, and generally tenable facts about the topic being addressed. A reader may see content written in the expository style at least once a day because it is a very common type of writing style. Expository writing is used in the writing of textbooks, scientific articles, business articles, technical articles, and more.

Descriptive writing

Descriptive writing entails conveying information or content in a way that creates imagery in the mind of your audience. As a writer, you should appeal to the five senses of your audience when using descriptive writing. You can achieve this through the use of literary techniques which include similes, metaphors, allegory, allusion, personification, metonymy, satire, analogy, and more. While narrative writing offers the writer an avenue to exhibit their talents and abilities in writing, descriptive writing not only offers this but also enables the writer to exploit his or her abilities to connect with his or her audience.