Results are in - readers confirm their favourite writing style

Results of the poll running for the past few months were fairly conclusive with the favourite writing style being ‘tell it like it is, me to you’ with 46% of the vote. (That’s 118 votes out of a total of 256).

In second place was ‘carefully constructed sentences, delivered with ‘gravitas’, with 78 votes (30%).Personally I was surprised that option proved so popular.

In third place was ’short and pithy’ with a surprisingly poor 38 votes (15%). I had thought that was a potential winner.

Staccato was the out-and-out loser with only 7 votes, or 3%. Hmmm, intersting. You actually see a fair bit of what I would call a staccato style around, especially in corporate company brochures and the like.

Staccato lost because it was beaten into fourth place by: ‘I use as many words as possible because that way I feel more self-important.’ This received a worthy 15 votes, or 6%. Presumably, these were people who felt like thumbing their noses at my obvious attempts to skew the results of the poll.

Good for them.

(You can see the polls archive here).

Stumble it!