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Applying Psychological Type to Writing
Do you think out loud? Are you spontaneous? Are you a detail person?
Using diagnostic instruments, a Writestyles seminar can shine light on your blind spots, showing that you have more to say than you realize.
 MARK TWAIN
shows characteristics of an ENTP: witty, entertaining, and satirical.
Ingenious and irreverent at times, Twain had the verbal alacrity combined with a global view
that ENTPs display.
 ERNEST HEMINGWAY
carefully crafted his writing persona. His short sentences, love of dialogue,
interest in details of the physical world,
and avoidance of flowery or sentimental language
all would indicate an ESTP writing style. However, he also liked symbols and
figurative language, which indicates an Intuitive rather than a Sensing personality.
He may have been an ENFP who adopted the writing style of an ESTP.
In the same way, your personality type influences how you write, as well as how you view the world.
3 Ways to Find Your Own Writing Style:
1. Take a Writestyles Seminar
2. Read Write From the Start by Writestyles Associate Ann Loomis.
Order the book from CAPT online, or call 1-800-777-2278.
3. To see the writing profiles of various personality types, click here.
If you don’t know your 4-letter MBTI® type, you can take the full indicator for $30 by contacting us.
OR, you can take a quick online quiz here.
INQUIRE:
If you have a question, an observation, or an invitation,
feel free to join our weblog. Or, you can start an email discussion with Writestyles' founders, Carol Shumate and Ann Loomis.
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How Writestyles Seminars Began
Writestyles began with a chance meeting of Carol Shumate (left) and Ann Loomis (right) when each was designing her own writing currriculum.
Ann had learned that psychological type influences the content as well as the style of an individual's writing. Carol had observed that she could predict certain patterns of strengths and weaknesses in students' writings.
Together, they realized their methods dovetailed; Ann had the type theory for which Carol had the data, and Writestyles was formed.
CREDITS:
Mark Twain photo, courtesy of Keystone-Mast Collection, UCR/California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside.
Ernest Hemingway photo, courtesy of John F. Kennedy Library Foundation.
Logo and Photography by Bluehill Studios, Chapel Hill, NC.
Website by Jim Buie.
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What Clients Say
"The seminar leaders measure the personal orientation of the participants beforehand and tailor the presentations so that the method models and demonstrates the principles they profess." -- Neill Clark,
Teacher, Cary Academy Upper School, Cary, NC
"The Writestyles method gave me a whole new lens for viewing student writing.
'Weaknesses' are simply strengths that other students do not possess.
How to get all students to include specific examples as well as broad intuitive thesis
statements are some of the many skills taught in these workshops." --
Lyn Fairchild, Chair, English Department, Cary Academy Upper School, Cary, NC
"Thanks to Carol Shumate's writing instruction in middle school, my daughter earns A's on most of her English assignments (including creative writing), at Miss Porter's School in Farmington, CT, and English is not her favorite subject!" -- Roxanne Barksdale
Psychotherapist and parent, Hillsborough, NC
"Ann Loomis teaches Japanese businessmen at the Executive Development Institute
how to be more comfortable with writing as a process. Using psychological type, Ann affirms their natural style as they learn to become more fluent and efficient writers. Her approach has raised their awareness that good writing goes beyond merely focusing on correctness." -- Patrick Oglesby, MBA, JD
The Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC-Chapel Hill
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