Formal and Informal text

1)
What is style?
In the sense of academis writing, style is the diffrent ways of expressing yourself depending on what kind of text you aim to produce. When producing a text you need to know who´s going to read your text, their age, intrests, if it´s a man or a woman, their line of work, their religion, political status and so on. All these things and the genre of the text, decides the style of your text.

2)
Formal text - Satlinism and Nazism Dictatorship in Comparision by Ian Kershaw and Moshe Lewin (student litterature)

"The launching of the Stalin revolution, first in the countryside and the in the industry, destroyed the basis of the regims fragile relationship with the great majority of the population (the smychka) and creted a new crises of legitimacy and authority.
By ending NBP and almost all privite production and trade, Stalin created the first modern non-market, state-run economy, on that simultaneously eliminated rival sources of power and resistance to the will of central authorities" (p. 35)

Informal text - The Curious Incident of the dog in the night-time by Mark Haddon (a murder mystery novel)

Then she turned and went into the house. She moved very slowly because she was an old lady and she was inside the house for more then 6 minutes and I began to get nervous because i didn´t know wht she was doing in the house. I didn´t know her well enough to know whether she was telling the truth about getting orange squash and battenburg cake. And I thought she might be ringing the police and then I´d get into much more serious because of the caution." (p. 53)

Distingushing features, formal and informal text.
* Vocabulary
* Length of the sentences
* Rythem when reading
* Content, these text´s are not intended to reach the same public.

3)
Formal text - topic christmas.
Christmas, a celebrated holiday all over the world, with traditions that change depending on your location. Exampels on diffrences in tarditions can be Santa Claus appearence, christmas presents that´s opened on diffrent days and times of the day. The christmas dinner may consist of diffrent dishes.
Regardless of diffrences in traditions, christmas is christmas. A holiday celebrated by all ages, a time of happines.

Informal text - topic christmas.
Christmas is a wounderful holiday that is celebrated all aound the world, Almost everyoune have their own tradition´s, they differ in one way or another. Maybee ower Santas don´t look the same, the christmas present´s aren´t opened on the same day or maybee the food is diffrent.
In the end it dosen´t really matter because christmas will always be christmas. It´s a holiday for both old and young, a time for joy.