The phrase "diary style" is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used to describe an informal writing style that focuses on a personal experience or perspective, in the same way someone might write in a diary. For example: "I wrote my essay using a diary style, narrating my experiences of the topic in chronological order."
The BBC's Iain Watson attempts to find out in Five Million Conversations (Luath), written in an accessible diary style.
Writing in diary style from June 13 , 1985 to Dec. 31, 1991, Mr. Bearden begins with the tragic capture by Soviet agents of one of the C.I.A.'s most valuable Russian moles, Adolf Tolkachev, the first of many.
The book is written in a diary style by Adrian Mole, a thirteen year old boy who, although writes confidently, often misinterprets and does not understand the events that go on around him.
The story is written "diary style" and it gives us hundreds of wonderful tales, some funny, some profound, some just fascinating - for instance Cherie still believes she and Tony are socialists - but all give us a real insight into the life of a colourful tabloid editor.
Speaking on Woman's Hour this morning, Fielding admitted that Bridget's famous diary style – she opens each entry with a list: "9st 3 (but post-Christmas), alcohol units 14 (but effectively covers 2 days as 4 hours of party was on New Year's Day), cigarettes 22, calories 5424)" – would be focusing more on Twitter followers than on alcohol and cigarettes this time around.
This universally recognisable family struggle, combined with the visually accessible, part comic strip, part diary style has so far produced worldwide sales of 75m books in 41 languages and the sixth book in the series, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever, was the biggest and fastest-selling children's book of 2011.
The contrasting diary styles are well captured in Frank Wynne's translation.
For Bookforum, Greenberg recently began a diary-style column called "The Accidentalist".
Carr's spokesman at the time initially confirmed the diary-style book was "a work in progress".
Frances Thomas' diary-style comedy skips along, incorporating scrap-book style illustrations by Sally Gardner.
Littered with cool doodles, this diary-style series follows 12-year-old Greg Heffley as he muddles his way through middle school, accompanied by his best friend Rowley.
