The document compares and contrasts technical writing and creative writing. Technical writing focuses on providing instructions to operate devices or machinery in a factual, straightforward manner aimed at a specific audience. The goal is to inform, instruct, and persuade using a formal, standard, and academic style. In contrast, creative writing uses imaginative and metaphorical content to entertain and provoke readers in a more informal and artistic style using general and evocative vocabulary without a strictly sequential organization. Both types of writing share the common goal of keeping the reader engaged.

1. Technical communication OR Creative Writing

2. A technical manual can be thought of as an illustrative piece of writing with instructions that will help the consumer operate the device, appliance or machinerywith appeal that gives gratification from the product so the consumer tell others and next is another interested buyer. A story book is written to keep the reader’s attention, to create imagery in the mind and with great satisfaction from the book the consumer tell others and next another interested reader. Yes, very similar…

3. Manual a small book, esp. One giving information or instructions.Memos letters written to someone outside your organization but are sent to one or more people within the company.Abstracts are written to condense major articles and transform the work into a short summary.Articles is an informal piece of writing anticipated for a wide-ranging audience with is usually published in journals.

4. Creative writing is writing that expresses the writer's thoughts and feelings in an imaginative, often unique, and poetic way. Poetry has many forms including rhyming, non-rhyming, free-form poetry, epic poems and sonnet form. Limerick poetry is a five-line poem that is comical and sometimes some crude language. Flash fiction is a style of creative writing which is shorter than a short story and the average is about 250 words and 2,000 words.

6. Audiencespecific general

7. Purposeinform, instruct, persuade

8. Style formal, standard, academic

9. Tone objective subjective

10. Organization sequential, systematic arbitrary, artistic

11. Vocabulary specializedContent imaginative, metaphoric or symbolic Purpose entertain, provoke Style informal, artistic Organization sequential, systematic arbitrary, artistic Vocabulary general, evocative Study from http://www.micron.com

12. One common goal keeping the reader’s attention….

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