I was interviewed for a position about content writing not too long ago. They told me that my “writing style” was just what they were looking for. As I put away my portfolio that I had brought to the interview, I started to wonder about my writing style. I sat down with said portfolio and began to slowly look through it. Each piece of work I have has a different writing tone which was dictated based on the writing style called for by a particular client. I pride myself on being able to write for any industry in any style that the client dictates.

Writing Styles

Here is a top 5 list of general writing styles I have seen and/or used:

• Technical Business - usually business processes or white papers detailing what a client or internal staff needs to know in order to perform their daily, weekly, or monthly assignments.

I’ve been writing all my life.  Seems like I replaced the bottle with a pencil.  No, really, that’s what I remember.

I never really talked to my Mom growing up.  But, I remember one day leaving a question on a small notepad in the morning before school (I was a genius at 7, I’m telling ya. Ok, ok, I wasn’t into the existentialist questions like this poor young fellow).  When I got home there was an answer.  WOW!  That was really cool.  So every morning I’d write a question in my book and every afternoon when I got home there’d be an answer.  At first it was weird because I didn’t know who was leaving the answer.