Collaborative Writing on Writing

      For people our age, the most common form of writing would have to be school papers and writing assignments, however smaller things like sending an informal text message or a social media post seem to dominate out of school writing. The persona swings pretty dramatically between formal literature and informal communication, with a massive consideration for the audience at hand. Our writing style is adaptive to the variety of audiences we write for to make our work appropriate. Writing a paper for your english teacher differs drastically from sending a quick text to your friend. Tying these two polar writing styles together is the “personal narrative” style, meaning writing where the author uses “I” and “you” freely throughout the paper to seemingly blur the lines between formal literature and informal communication. What we have gathered through our years of school is that if you can somehow weave in tone and voice into a formal piece, then it becomes second nature in everyday writing.