Lesson IMAGINATIVE WRITING

1 VERSUS TECHNICAL WRITING

What I Need to Know

At the end of this lesson, you are expected to differentiate imaginative
writing from technical writing.
(HUMSS_CW/MP11/12-Ia-b-1)

What I Know
Direction: Write a check mark inside the box before the item if
it is an example of creative writing. If not, write an X mark instead.

1. novels
2. Songs
3. Business letter/plan
4. Action plan
5. Fable
6. Speeches
7. Annual Reports
8. Student’s handbook
9. Movie scripts
10. Proposals
11. Personal essay
12. Editorial
13. Advertisement
14. Short story
15. Book review

What’s New
 A. Create your own answer of the following ‘what if’ questions. Write your
answer on the blank provided/on your answer sheet.

1. What if you are a super hero, who would you save first?
______________________________________________________________

2. What if your parents let you name yourself when you were born, what would your
name be?
______________________________________________________________

3. What if you could have a full scholarship to any university, what would you choose
to study?
______________________________________________________________

B. Read, evaluate and arrange the following instructions in making a lemonade. Write
only the number in each blank.

7 Steps in Making a Lemonade

_____Add a very small amount of water to your container.

_____Squeeze all the juice out of it that you can.
_____Serve and enjoy.
_____Cut the lemon in half.
_____Pour the juice into the container with ¼ sugar.
_____Fill up the container with water and ice. _____Stir the
solution until sugar dissolves.

What Is It

LESSON 1.1. What is creative writing?

“Creative Writing” is additionally called the “art of constructing things up”. It's any
writing that doesn't follow the traditional skilled, print media, tutorial or technical types of
literature, usually known by a stress on narrative crafts, character development and
therefore the use of literary tropes or with numerous traditions of poetry and literary study.
It's wherever the aim of writing is to specific thoughts, feelings and emotions instead of
to feed information. Creative Writing vs. Technical Writing
 Let’s look at the fundamental differences between creative and technical writing.

Creative Writing Technical Writing

Fictional & Imaginative Factual

or
Entertaining, Provocative & Informative, Instructional
Captivating Persuasive

Artistic, Figurative, Symbolic or Clear, Precise and

Even Vague Straightforward

Subjective Objective

Generalized Vocabulary Specialized Vocabulary

To add it up, creative writing is for masses but technical writing is for specific
audience. In creative writing, the most of the part is self – created, although the idea
might be inspired but in technical writing the facts are to be delivered and the ideas are
delivered from leading on what others have thought.

What’s More
Think and write. Go over with the following texts given below. Write CW if
the writing is an example of Creative Writing and write TW if it is an
example of Technical Writing. Write your answer on the space provided.

_______ marriage of true minds, 1.

“Let me Admit impediments, not
to the Love is not love “

- Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare

(Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki)
_______ 2. “He could not have been bigger than this,” the frog said.
But the little Frogs all declared that the monster was much, much
bigger… “

- Aesop Fable : The Frog and the Fox

(Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki)

_______ “It isn’t a new problem. Addiction is an ugly foe that ruins lives.” 3.
-
- EDITORIAL entitled “Drug
Addiction: A Public Health Crisis “
(Source : www.countytimes.com/opinion)

_______ “Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and 4.
remember what peace there may be in silence. As
far as possible, without surrender, be on good
terms with all persons.”

- Desiderata by Max Ehrmann

( Source : https://www.desiderata.com )
_______ According to the Indian census, carried out in 2011, 5.
“ the population of India was exactly 1,210,193,422,
which means India has crossed the 1-billion mark.”

- News Overpopulation in India

(Source : https: //www.mapsofindia.com)

_______ 6. ” All creatures great and small; all things wise and wonderful, the
Lord God made them all “

All Things Bright & Beautiful by Cecil Frances Alexander

(Source : https://www.lds.org )

_______ 7 . “The little prince “tells the story of a pilot stranded in the
desert fixing his airplane, until one day he meets a little boy –
the Little Prince. “

- Book Review: The Little Prince

(Source: https://www.imagineforest.com )

_______
8.
School absenteeism is an alarming problem for administrators,
teachers, parents, society in general, and pupils in particular. Unaccepted
absences have a negative effect on peer relationships, which can cause
further absences.

Action Research on Student and Pupil Absenteeism in School

(Source: https://owlcation.com/academia )
_______ 9. he Intruder is a 2019 American psychological thriller film
T directed by Deon Taylor and written by David Loughery. The film stars
Michael Ealy and Meagan Good as a couple who buy a house in the
country, only to realize its previous owner refuses to let it go.

- The Intruder Movie

(Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki )

_______ 10 . “Who am I, that the Lord of all the earth

Would care to know my name,
Would care to feel my hurt?

- Who am I by Casting Crowns

(Source : https://www.azlyrics.com )

ASSESSMENT
Arrange the following terms into their proper type of writing. Write the
correct word in either Creative Writing or Technical Writing.

personal research formal story Serious entertaining inform

instructional

conversational informal

CREATIVE WRITING TECHNICAL WRITING