Technical vs Creative writing

• Characteristics of creative writing

  Creative, provocative, subjective, symbolic, generalized
• Characteristics of technical writing

  Factual, informative, objective, precise and straightforward, specialized
• Examples of creative writing


  Poetry, plays, movies and tv scripts, fictions, songs, speeches, memoirs, personal essays
• Imagery


  The use of figurative language to represent objects, actions, and ideas—in a way that appeals to our physical senses
• Diction


  Being able to choose words that are exact instead of indefinite, vivid instead of trite, and specific instead of general
• Figures of speech


  You can create vivid pictures in your readers’ minds by using figurative language (not just specific words)