WELCOME TO

CREATIVE
WRITING CLASS
Are you ready?
Using a power point
presentation, compare
and contrast imaginative
writing from technical
writing. Use a Venn
Then, save it as a picture
and post your answer in the
padlet using the link:::;::::
below:
https://padlet.com/maryjoya
ganan/wta0yxs4qnwxxy37
Imaginative Writing
 It expresses the writer’s thought
and feelings in a creative, unique,
and poetic way. Its main purpose is
to entertain and educate. Its
content is imaginative, metaphoric,
and symbolic. Its language is
informal, artistic, and figurative
Technical Writing
 A form of writing technical
communication or documentation
in science and technology that
helps people understand a
product or service. Its main
purpose is to inform and to trigger
the person into action such as
Technical Writing
 The content is factual and
straightforward. It is expressed in
formal, standard, or academic
language. The tone of technical
writing output is objective and its
audience is specific uses language
to evoke either an emotional or
Discussion Questions:
1. Which of the two did you enjoy
reading more? Why?
2. What is the main purpose of each
paragraph?
3. Which of the excerpts would you
say is literary? What are the
characteristics of this text that make
 4. In your own words, come up with
• 4. In your own words, come up with one to two sentences describing
the one tosmell.
sense of two sentences describing the
sense
• 5. What of
rhetorical smell.
mode (definition, description, or narration) is most
commonly used when asked to define or describe an abstract
5. What rhetorical mode (definition,
concept?

description, or narration) is most

commonly used when asked to
define or describe an abstract
concept?