Rhetoric and composition have become a part of how we do things since we have been young. We are eventually taught in school the types of writing we will need to use in our everyday situations to help us communicate to others for a specific purpose and effectively. This writing informs, persuades, or explains what it is we want the audience to know or come away with. R & C studies use academic essays, papers, memos, or class handouts while creative writing studies primarily create literary works. Students are not there to compare one another as writers, artists, or human beings in general. It is a way for each of us to develop our own writing style and self-expression. It builds up the individual 's ability to express his or her own thoughts and technique more clearly by engaging into writing to get our mind working. “Creative writing and compositions studies… seem to operate with a distinct sense of a constituency for its teaching, an audience for its writing, and a function it performs” (Lardner, 770).
Creative writing is a way to express what you feel inside your heart or the ideas that are in your head. It gives the writers a means for expressing
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