{"id":21637,"date":"2016-02-16T19:20:51","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T19:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/?page_id=21637"},"modified":"2025-11-28T14:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T20:11:07","slug":"improve-your-writing-4-different-styles-of-writing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/improve-your-writing-4-different-styles-of-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Improve Your Writing &#8211; 4 Different Styles of Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Improve Your Writing &#8211; 4 Different Styles of Writing<\/h1>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper fourthree\" title=\"Improve Your Writing - 4 Different Styles of Writing\" style=\"width:420px;max-width:100%;margin:5px auto;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_H6EWMTBxpog\"><div id=\"lyte_H6EWMTBxpog\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FH6EWMTBxpog%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\">Improve Your Writing - 4 Different Styles of Writing<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/H6EWMTBxpog\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FH6EWMTBxpog%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Improve Your Writing - 4 Different Styles of Writing\" width=\"420\" height=\"295\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:420px;margin:5px auto;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"accordion\"><input id=\"transcript\" type=\"checkbox\" class=\"spoiler_button\" \/><label for=\"transcript\">Transcript<\/label>\n<div class=\"spoiler\" id=\"transcript-spoiler\">\n<p>Hi, and welcome to this video lesson on the four purposes of texts. No, not tests, texts. What exactly are the four purposes of texts?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Well, inform, influence, express, and entertain.<\/strong> Now let&#8217;s try to define these a little bit more and kind of get an idea exactly how do they work?<\/p>\n<p><strong>1)<\/strong> Newspaper articles, encyclopedia entries, and instructional documents are written to inform; authors give facts and write in an objective tone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2)<\/strong> Editorials and advertisements are written to influence; authors use persuasive language to try to be convincing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3)<\/strong> Descriptive paragraphs are written to express something; authors use lots of adjectives to describe objects or ideas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4)<\/strong> Fictional stories and screenplays are usually written to entertain. Just because a fictional story or screenplay is written to entertain, it doesn&#8217;t mean it can&#8217;t also do one or more of these other things as well.<\/p>\n<p><em>For example,<\/em> Pocahontas is a story that entertains, but it also influences the way that we think about indigenous peoples and wildlife.<\/p>\n<p>Another great example of this is the story of Scrooge in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.<\/p>\n<p>We learn all about what it means to love one another, we learn about materialism, and we also learn about what&#8217;s most important in life. It&#8217;s influencing the way that we think about things.<\/p>\n<p>Make sense? I sure hope that helps. Thanks for watching this video lesson, and until next time, happy studying!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Improve Your Writing &#8211; 4 Different Styles of Writing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-21637","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"page_category-writing-videos","6":"page_type-video","7":"page_domain-english"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49509,"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21637\/revisions\/49509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}