What are the different Writing Styles available?

ProWritingAid offers a range of Writing Style settings to choose from to help you with editing your document. Which one you choose depends entirely on the text you are editing.

Writing Styles help provide real-time suggestions that are more appropriate for the document you are working on.

To get editing, choose the Writing Style and subsequent Document Type that are most relevant for your text.

What are the different Writing Styles available?

You can choose from the following Writing Styles:

General
Academic
Business
Technical
Creative
Casual
Web
Script

All Writing Styles have a “General” Document Type. Writing Styles also have additional specific Document Types to choose from to get suggestions that are more relevant to the document you’re writing.

How do Writing Styles differ from each other?

Below, you will find more information about each Writing Style to help you decide which one would be best for your document.

For each Writing Style, our base suggestions and rules are applied as well as the following rules:

	General	Academic	Business	Technical	Creative	Casual	Web	Script
Inconsistencies in punctuation marks	X
“Show, don’t tell” rule, part of our Style Report → encourages you to show emotions in your writing	X				X	X	X	X
Capitalization within a word → checks for incorrectly capitalized letters within a single word	X							X
Style Guides	X		X	X	X	X	X	X
Readability enhancements	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Inclusive language improvements	X	X	X	X
Business jargon suggestions	X	X	X	X
Simple sentence fragments → checks to make sure a sentence fragment contains both a subject and a verb		X	X	X
Keeps your writing appropriate for formal writing by suggesting removing smileys from your document		X	X
Passive voice → finds instances of passive voice and suggests replacements		X	X		X		X	X
Offensive language check → checks against discriminatory language and suggests removing inappropriate words			X
Style rules for emails → helps transform your sentences to be more polite			X
Each sentence is limited to 30 words							X	X
Em dash → searches for instances where em dash should be used instead of two consecutive dashes								X

You will need to pick both a Writing Style and Document Type for the settings to be implemented.

If a specific Writing Style and Document Type is not set, it will default to “General.”

If you need any help with setting up your Writing Style preference, see our How do I change my Writing Style? article.