writing about your holiday in different registers

REGISTER: THE BASICS:

It's important to be able to handle different registers:

the way a speaker uses language differently in different circumstances. Think about the words you choose, your tone of voice, even your body language. You probably behave very differently chatting with a friend than you would at a formal dinner party or during a job interview.

What Is Register in Linguistics?

a variety of language used for a particular purpose or particular communicative situation. For example, when speaking officially or in a public setting, an English speaker may be more likely to follow prescriptive norms for formal usage than in a casual setting, for example, by pronouncing words ending in -ing with a velar nasal instead of an alveolar nasal (e.g., walking rather than walkin'), choosing words that are considered more "formal" (such as father vs. dad or child vs. kid), and refraining from using words considered nonstandard, such as ain't and y'all.

Register (sociolinguistics) - Wikipedia

With a little more here:

Jay Doubleyou: register

Jay Doubleyou: register: populism, culture wars and woke

Jay Doubleyou: learning to use the appropriate register @ fawlty towers

REGISTER: TRYING TO WRITE IN DIFFERENT VARIETIES OF ENGLISH

Here are some ideas about making writing more nuanced:

Jay Doubleyou: writing with register: a lesson in using different levels of 'politeness'

Here are some more ideas around the theme of writing about your holiday:

1: Write a postcard to a friend

2: Write the same but to a great-aunt

3: Write a report to a local town council which is asking for input from tourists - in its consultation on its local tourism policy. Make use of the specific holiday experiences as outlined in your postcards, but put it in the language and format of an official report, giving your opinions and any recommendations.

4: Write an academic piece analysing the different aspects of holidaying in this part of the world. Again, make use of the examples referred to in the above pieces, but in an impersonal style with no personal opinions, with reference to statistical data and other academic studies.

5: Write in a highly subjective manner, following the stream of consciousness style of Virginia Wolfe's "To the Lighthouse", a story of a family on holiday, recounting in the same type of language the feelings and impressions when on holiday as it happens: To the Lighthouse - Wikipedia and To-the-Lighthouse-Etext-Edited.pdf

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