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Learn with Mentor · 7 min

Register and Word Choice

Learn to match your language's formality to your audience — a text to a friend and an email to a teacher shouldn't sound the same.

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What are we learning?

You already do this instinctively: you text a friend differently than you'd write to a teacher. That instinct has a name — register — and understanding it makes your writing more deliberate.