Difference of Creative Writing from Academic and Technical Writing

2. Presented by:
Ma.Anna Corina G. Kagaoan
AssistantProfessor
College of Arts and Sciences
Creative Writing

3. Objectives
After this session,participants should be able to:
• Distinguish creative writing from other forms
of writing;
• Appreciate creative writing and its relevance
to life; and
• Discusssome creative writing tips.

9. Technical Writing Creative Writing
Content factual, straight-forward
imaginative, metaphoric,
or symbolic
Audience specific general
Purpose inform, instruct, persuade
entertain, provoke,
captivate
Style formal, standard, academic informal, artistic, figurative
Tone objective subjective
Vocabulary specialized general, evocative
Organization sequential, systematic arbitrary, artistic

10. Academic Writing Creative Writing
Content necessary an art form
Audience everyone not for everyone
Purpose
to convey data, knowledge
and information
entertains with word
pictures, concepts and
deep meaning
Style rigid, procedural enjoyable
Tone dull touches while teaching
Organization orderly, follows a formula Inspired and artistic

11. Creative
Writing
The improvement
of reality (art asa
hammer)
An escapefrom reality;
a sedative or distraction

12. Creative Writing
Expression
that is
wide—
open
& free.
Expression
that is
shaped and
crafted.
A
mysteriou
s inborn
talent.
Alearnable
skill.
The
honoring of
tradition.
The
subversion
of tradition.

13. Creative Writing
A
commodity.
A hoax;
excuse for
not having
a REALjob.
Self-
expression;
solely for self;
exploration of
one’s unique
vision.
Something
produced
solely for
others; a
means of
pleasing an
audience.
Emotional or
psychological
therapy.

14. What isCreative Writing?
– expressesthe writer’s thoughts and feelings in
an imaginative, often unique, and poeticway.
– guided more by the writer’s need to express
feelings and ideas than by the restrictive
demands of factual and logical progression of
expository writing.

16. What isCreativity?
– ability to produce original ideas.
– the result of a complex of cognitive skills,
abilities, personality factors, motivation, and
strategies.