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The document discusses the differences between creative/literary writing and technical/academic writing. It provides 5 learning outcomes for understanding creative writing, including differentiating the two styles of writing and utilizing language to evoke emotional responses. It defines creative writing as writing from the imagination that is inventive, imaginative, expressive and original. Such writing includes poetry, fiction and plays. The document then contrasts 10 key points between technical writing and literary writing, such as subject matter, readership, purpose, language style, and tone. Technical writing is informative, objective and formal, while literary writing is entertaining, subjective and informal.

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Creative Writing

The document discusses the differences between creative/literary writing and technical/academic writing. It provides 5 learning outcomes for understanding creative writing, including differentiating the two styles of writing and utilizing language to evoke emotional responses. It defines creative writing as writing from the imagination that is inventive, imaginative, expressive and original. Such writing includes poetry, fiction and plays. The document then contrasts 10 key points between technical writing and literary writing, such as subject matter, readership, purpose, language style, and tone. Technical writing is informative, objective and formal, while literary writing is entertaining, subjective and informal.

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CREATIVE

WRITING
Unit I: Creative Writing
Learning Outcomes:
At the end of the unit, the student is expected to:
1. Differentiate technical/academic writing and literary/imaginative
writing.
2. Cull creative ideas from experiences.
3. Utilize language to evoke emotional and intellectual responsefrom
readers;
4. Use imagery, figures of speech, diction, and specific experiences; and
5. Read closely as writers with a consciousness of craft.
Creative Writing

• The word "creative” is synonymous with


a. Inventive,
b. Imaginative,
c. Productive, and:
d. Characterized by expressiveness and originality.
• Based on the synonyms, the meaning of creative writing can be
derived. Creative writing is :
a. Invented writing
b. Writing based on one's imagination
c. Writing produced with expressiveness
d. Writing that is original.
• Creative writing is most popularly understood to be writing
that comes from the imagination, writing that is 'not true’.
Creative Writing is the very fine art of making things up, in the
most attractive, apt, and convincing way possible. It's the telling
of lies in order to reveal illuminating and dark truths about the
world and our place in it. We tend to think of Poetry, Fiction,
and Plays. Of course, we do know that some creative writing is
partly based (or) inspired by real events:"
• Therefore, a creative writer is one who writes a poem, short
story, novel,or play. Poets, short story writers, novelists, and
playwrights are creative writers, that is, if they produce literary
pieces based on their imagination,with inventiveness,
expressiveness, and originality.
TECHNICAL
WRITING VS.
LITERARY WRITING
Technical Writing Versus Literary
Writing
• Technical writing differs from other types of writing,
particularly literary writing. The differences between technical
writing and literarywriting are shown in the next slide:
Point of Contrast Technical Writing Literary Writing
1. Subject Scientific/technical Non-scientific/Non technical

2. Readership Specific General

3. Purpose Informative/persuasive Entertaining

4. Language Literal/denotative Figurative/connotative

5. Style Impersonal Personal

6. Tone Heavy/serious Light/amusing

7. Point of View Usually third person, sometimes First person, of third person, rarely
second person second person
8. Emotionality Unemotional Emotional

9. Objectivity Objective/Neutral Subjective/biased

10. Form/format Formal Informal


Technical Writing
• Technical writing deals with a science topic or a technical subject. If a
technical writer focuses on cats, then his treatment is science-oriented,that
is, biological. His readers must be biological students, teachers, and
specialists or zookeepers and other interested parties. His aim is to inform
his readers about cats, using words in their literal sense (dictionary-
based).He makes use of an impersonal style, serious tone, and third-
person it, they) point of view His writing is devoid of emotions and
biases; it conforms with the standard format.
Literary Writing
• Literary writers can also have cats as topics; however, their treatment is
different from that of technical writers. For example, Japanese
writers,Lady Sarashina and Lady Shonagon, wrote about cats in the
form of short stories. Using a personal style and an amusing tone, they
wrote emotion-laden stories serving to amuse English readers ofalmost all
ages. Both made use of figures of speech, but one used the first-person
point of view and the other used the third-person point of view. Their
subjective narratives were written informally.

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