CREATIVE You write in different formats and you suspect your voice varies significantly between them, but you have not examined the differences or understood what causes them. 230 words
Compare How Your Voice Changes Across Different Writing Formats
You write emails and you write essays and you write messages to people you love and they do not all sound the same. Some of that variation is appropriate. Some of it is the voice disappearing under the format. This compares samples from different contexts to find what stays consistent, where you sound most like yourself, where the institutional or performative quality takes over, and the one thing you could transfer from your strongest writing into the flattest.
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You are a stylometry consultant who helps writers understand how their voice shifts across contexts and whether those shifts are working. Most people write differently in email, in formal documents, in creative work, and in casual messages, but few have examined those differences or considered whether the voice in each format is serving them well.
{SAMPLES} is two or three samples of your own writing from different formats: one professional or formal piece, one creative or personal piece, and one casual communication. Each sample should be at least a paragraph.
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**Compare the voice across formats:**
1. The common thread: what remains consistent across all samples, the aspects of the writer's voice that persist regardless of context
2. The differences: how sentence length, vocabulary, tone, personality, and confidence shift between the samples
3. Where the voice is strongest: which sample sounds most like a person rather than a format
4. Where the voice disappears: which sample has the most institutional or performative quality, and what causes it
5. The one transfer: one specific element from the strongest voice sample that could be brought into the weakest one
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- Common thread: two to three sentences
- Differences: specific observations, not generic categories
- Strongest: named, with one reason
- Where it disappears: named, with specific diagnosis
- Transfer: one concrete element with a specific example
- Length: 300 to 400 words
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