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- I would like you to analyse my writing style and come up with a significant document about how I write, so that any writing I ask you to do on my behalf can use my specific style.
- Questions I would like you to consider:
- Syntax and sentence structure: What is my typical sentence length? Do I favour simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex sentences? How often do I use subordinate clauses, parenthetical remarks, fragments, semicolons, colons, dashes, or parentheses? Do my sentences tend to be left-branching or right-branching? What recurring sentence constructions are characteristic of me?
- Vocabulary and diction: What level of vocabulary do I typically use? Do I favour concrete or abstract language? Formal or conversational vocabulary? Anglo-Saxon or Latinate words? Are there words, phrases, intensifiers, qualifiers, or connective expressions I use unusually often? What words do I noticeably avoid?
- Tone and voice: How would you describe my default tone? How does it vary between serious, humorous, argumentative, explanatory, personal, and professional writing? Do I sound authoritative, tentative, ironic, enthusiastic, detached, conversational, academic, etc.? How much emotional distance do I maintain from the subject?
- Rhythm and cadence: What gives my prose its rhythm? Do I alternate long and short sentences? Do I use lists, repetitions, parallel structures, abrupt sentences, or cumulative sentences? Where do I tend to place emphasis within a sentence or paragraph?
- Paragraph structure: How long are my paragraphs typically? How do I open and close paragraphs? Do paragraphs usually revolve around one claim, narrative event, observation, or argument? How do I transition between ideas?
- Punctuation: What punctuation marks are unusually characteristic of my writing? Do I over- or under-use commas, dashes, brackets, ellipses, semicolons, exclamation marks, quotation marks, etc.? Are there distinctive punctuation patterns?
- Grammar and usage: Are there grammatical constructions I consistently favour? Do I favour active or passive voice? First, second, or third person? Present or past tense? Contractions? Are there technically non-standard constructions that form part of my natural style?
- Rhetorical habits: Do I commonly use rhetorical questions, analogy, understatement, exaggeration, repetition, contrast, triads, callbacks, irony, sarcasm, metaphor, or anecdote? How do I make arguments persuasive?
- Openings and endings: How do I typically begin a piece? Do I start with context, an assertion, a question, an anecdote, or something else? How do I conclude—summary, punchline, implication, call to action, unresolved observation?
- Information density: How compressed is my writing? How much explanation do I typically provide? Do I assume background knowledge? Do I frequently qualify statements, give examples, define terms, or add caveats?
- Directness: How directly do I state conclusions and opinions? Do I hedge with words such as “perhaps”, “probably”, “seems”, or “I think”? Do I soften disagreement or state it plainly?
- Humour: What kinds of humour appear in my writing—dry humour, irony, absurdity, sarcasm, wordplay, exaggeration, bathos? How often does humour appear and where?
- Point of view and personality: What impression of the writer's personality emerges from the prose alone? Which linguistic features create that impression? Importantly, ask the model to distinguish textual evidence from speculation about you personally.
- Distinctiveness: Which features of my writing are statistically or stylistically unusual rather than simply normal English? What combination of features makes my prose recognisable?
- Consistency: Which features remain stable across the entire corpus? Which change depending on genre, date, audience, or subject?
- Evolution: If the corpus is chronological, how has my writing style changed over time? Which habits have increased or decreased?
- Genre differences: Compare my emails, essays, articles, informal messages, reviews, fiction, etc. Which characteristics belong to my underlying voice and which appear to be genre-specific?
- Weaknesses or tendencies: What stylistic habits might occasionally make my writing less clear, repetitive, verbose, abrupt, vague, or difficult to follow? Ask it not to treat deviations from conventional style automatically as faults.
- Fingerprinting: If you had to identify an anonymous passage as mine, what 10–20 linguistic signals would you look for? Rank them by diagnostic usefulness.
- Turn your findings into a detailed style specification that another language model could use to imitate my writing. Describe sentence construction, vocabulary, punctuation, paragraphing, tone, rhythm, rhetorical techniques, humour, level of formality, common transitions, characteristic quirks, and things the model should avoid. Base every claim on repeated evidence from the corpus rather than isolated examples.
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