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Differences Between Technical & Creative Writing
Writing can be grouped into five basic types: technical, creative, expressive, expository, and persuasive. To help understand technical writing, it may help to compare it to the other types. q Writing in the Workplace What is Technical Writing Characteristics of Technical Writing Technical Writing vs. Creative Writing Preparation in High School Samples Marketing Flyer Video Script Quick Reference Card E-mail Exploded Diagram Manufacturing Passdown Online Software Documentation Online Suggestion Presentation Materials Press Release Data Sheet Newsletter Company Overview Print This Page
Technical writing conveys specific information about a technical subject to a specific audience for a specific purpose. Creative writing is fiction—poetry, short stories, plays, and novels—and is most different from technical writing.
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Expressive writing is a subjective response to a personal experience—journals and Specifications diaries—whereas technical writing might be objective observations of a work-related experience or research. Expository writing “exposes” a topic analytically and objectively, such as news reports. Like technical writing, the goal of expository writing is to explain or reveal knowledge, but expository writing does not necessarily expect a response or action from the reader. Persuasive writing depends on emotional appeal. Its goal is to change attitudes or motivate to action.
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Technical Writing
Creative Writing imaginative, metaphoric or symbolic general entertain, provoke, captivate informal, artistic, figurative subjective general, evocative arbitrary, artistic
Content Audience Purpose Style Tone Vocabulary Organization
factual, straight-forward specific
DRAM | Modules | NOR Flash | NAND Flash | PSRAM | CMOS Image Sensors Home > K-12 > Writing in the Workplace
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Differences Between Technical & Creative Writing
Writing can be grouped into five basic types: technical, creative, expressive, expository, and persuasive. To help understand technical writing, it may help to compare it to the other types. q Writing in the Workplace What is Technical Writing Characteristics of Technical Writing Technical Writing vs. Creative Writing Preparation in High School Samples Marketing Flyer Video Script Quick Reference Card E-mail Exploded Diagram Manufacturing Passdown Online Software Documentation Online Suggestion Presentation Materials Press Release Data Sheet Newsletter Company Overview Print This Page
Technical writing conveys specific information about a technical subject to a specific audience for a specific purpose. Creative writing is fiction—poetry, short stories, plays, and novels—and is most different from technical writing.
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Expressive writing is a subjective response to a personal experience—journals and Specifications diaries—whereas technical writing might be objective observations of a work-related experience or research. Expository writing “exposes” a topic analytically and objectively, such as news reports. Like technical writing, the goal of expository writing is to explain or reveal knowledge, but expository writing does not necessarily expect a response or action from the reader. Persuasive writing depends on emotional appeal. Its goal is to change attitudes or motivate to action.
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Technical Writing
Creative Writing imaginative, metaphoric or symbolic general entertain, provoke, captivate informal, artistic, figurative subjective general, evocative arbitrary, artistic
Content Audience Purpose Style Tone Vocabulary Organization
factual, straight-forward specific