What are the most commonly used writing styles?

According to the expressed content and the adapted context, the style can be roughly divided into four types: official document style, political comment style, scientific and technological style and literary style.

The official document style takes stylized written style as the basic form and is used for transactional and legislative documents.

Scientific style is formed to meet the needs of science and technology. Accuracy, preciseness and conciseness are the language requirements of this style.

Political discourse style is a critical style to discuss social and political issues, political events, social and cultural phenomena and social morality. Its main features are strong publicity and rigorous logic.

The main characteristics of literary style are imagery, lyricism and aesthetic feeling.

Extended data

According to the source of language, style can be divided into oral style and written style.

Spoken language has the characteristics of popularity, vividness and flexibility. Although not rigorous and thorough, it is the foundation of all languages. Written language is a visual language formed on the basis of spoken language, which has the characteristics of systematicness, rigor and stability.

According to the literariness of language, genre can be divided into article genre and literary genre.

The stylistic feature of the article is directness, that is, it requires the language to be basically consistent with the object it refers to, so that people can see it at a glance. ; The characteristic of literary style is aesthetics, that is, language is required to combine with the author's specific feelings with the help of concrete images to form an artistic realm and arouse people's feelings.