Technical Writing

vs
Creative Writing
Technical Writing
•conveys specific information about a
technical subject to a specific audience
for a specific purpose
•Also called as academic writing
Creative Writing
•fiction—poetry, short stories, plays, and
novels—and is most different from
technical writing.
•Also called imaginative writing – which
express the writer’s thoughts and
feelings in a creative, unique and poetic
way
•Key Differences
•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 obliged and the note is delivered
from leading on what previously other
greats have concluded.
•Most commonly, the creative writing is for
general audience or for masses but
technical writing is for specific audience.
•The creative writing entertains people as it
has poetry or some illustrations or another
idea, whereas the technical writing causes
boredom as it follows the strong pattern
based on facts and is just to transfer the
information to the audience.
•In technical writing the specialized
vocabulary, such like scientific terms and
other are used while in creative writing, one
can go with slang or evocative phrases or
even something which can be perceived
well by the audience.
•Humor, satire might be the useful essences
in creative writing but such thoughts or
ideas have no link with the technical writing.
•Novel writing, poetry writing, satirical note
are some of the types of creative writing,
whereas report analysis, proving formulas
are types of technical writing.
•A formal education of the technical writer
seems necessary whereas, it’s never a
milestone in between becoming a creative
writer.
“Creative Writing is something far
beyond the boundary, with aiming to
entertain the viewers and to make
them imagine of what the writers are
willing to provoke.”
 “You may be a poet
and not even know it.”
― M.L. Shanahan