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Creative Writing Vs Technical Writing

The document compares technical writing to other types of writing such as creative, expressive, expository, and persuasive writing. It outlines the key differences between technical and creative writing. Technical writing conveys specific factual information about a technical subject to a specific audience for a specific purpose, while creative writing is imaginative fiction meant to entertain or provoke emotions in a general audience. Technical writing has a formal, standardized style using specialized vocabulary organized in a sequential, systematic way, while creative writing has a more informal, artistic style using general and evocative language in an arbitrary way.

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Creative Writing Vs Technical Writing

The document compares technical writing to other types of writing such as creative, expressive, expository, and persuasive writing. It outlines the key differences between technical and creative writing. Technical writing conveys specific factual information about a technical subject to a specific audience for a specific purpose, while creative writing is imaginative fiction meant to entertain or provoke emotions in a general audience. Technical writing has a formal, standardized style using specialized vocabulary organized in a sequential, systematic way, while creative writing has a more informal, artistic style using general and evocative language in an arbitrary way.

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Writing in the Workplace


What is Technical Writing
Differences Between Characteristics of Technical
Technical & Creative Writing Writing
Technical Writing vs. Creative
Writing
Writing can be grouped into five basic types: technical, creative, expressive, expository,
Preparation in High School
and persuasive. To help understand technical writing, it may help to compare it to the
other types.
Samples
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● Technical writing conveys specific information about a technical subject to a Video Script
specific audience for a specific purpose. Quick Reference Card
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● Creative writing is fiction—poetry, short stories, plays, and novels—and is most
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different from technical writing. Manufacturing Passdown
● Expressive writing is a subjective response to a personal experience—journals and Specifications
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diaries—whereas technical writing might be objective observations of a work-related
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experience or research. Presentation Materials
● Expository writing “exposes” a topic analytically and objectively, such as news Press Release
Data Sheet
reports. Like technical writing, the goal of expository writing is to explain or reveal
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knowledge, but expository writing does not necessarily expect a response or action Company Overview
from the reader.
● Persuasive writing depends on emotional appeal. Its goal is to change attitudes or Print This Page

motivate to action.

● Technical Writing Creative Writing

Content imaginative, metaphoric


factual, straight-forward
or symbolic

Audience specific general

Purpose inform, instruct, entertain, provoke,


persuade captivate

Style formal, standard, informal, artistic,


academic figurative

Tone objective subjective

Vocabulary specialized general, evocative

Organization sequential, systematic arbitrary, artistic

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