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MAJOR TYPES OF WRITING

NARRATIVE PERSUASIVE
WRITING WRITING

DESCRIPTIVE EXPOSITORY
CREATIVE WRITING
WRITING WRITING
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 NARRATIVE WRITING
Narrative writing is storytelling at its most basic: it’s
all about sharing something that happens to a
character. It can be an epic tale or a small anecdote;
it can span years of time or a few minutes; it can be
fact or fiction.

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Narrative writing uses many of the most

common elements of storytelling, such as plot,
character, setting, conflict, emotion, and a core
message you’re trying to get across.

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While narrative writing can take a lot of forms, one
thing is always true: You should be taking the reader on
a journey with a beginning, middle, and end. Even if
you’re just telling the story of a funny incident that
happened to you yesterday, your character should start
somewhere, run into some sort of conflict or interesting
experience, and then ultimately reach a resolution.

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 When to Use Narrative Writing?
Narrative writing is most commonly used in fiction and
creative writing, but it can also be used in nonfiction to
help make true stories more compelling to your reader.
Whatever you’re writing, the narrative style is worth
mastering because people tend to connect best with
stories.

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 When to Use Narrative Writing?
Narrative writing is most commonly used in fiction and
creative writing, but it can also be used in nonfiction to
help make true stories more compelling to your reader.
Whatever you’re writing, the narrative style is worth
mastering because people tend to connect best with
stories.

Ex. Novels and short stories, Creative essays, Feature stories, Presentations or
speeches
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 DESCRIPTIVE WRITING
Descriptive writing involves capturing every detail of the
place, person, or scene you’re writing about. The goal is to
really immerse the reader in the experience, making them
feel like they are there.

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When trying to achieve a descriptive writing style, think of it as
painting a picture with your words.

What can you say to help the reader truly envision the subject in
their mind’s eye? This usually involves crafting vivid descriptions
using all five senses: sight, smell, hearing, touch, and taste. But
it could also involve use of simile and metaphor to evoke a
mood or feeling that’s too hard to capture with physical
descriptors.
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 When to Use Descriptive Writing?
The primary purpose of descriptive writing is to describe a person,
place or thing in such a way that a picture is formed in the reader's
mind. Capturing an event through descriptive writing involves paying
close attention to the details by using all of your five senses.

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 PERSUASIVE WRITING
Persuasive writing is all about getting your point across. The goal is to
share your opinion in a thoughtful way—or, even better, to actually
convince the reader of a viewpoint or idea. Whether you have a strong
stance on an issue or need to inspire people to take action towards a
cause, persuasive writing is the way to do it.

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Of course, you can’t expect to simply state your viewpoint and have
everyone convinced—you need to effectively back it up to bring the
reader over to your side. 

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 When to Use Persuasive Writing?
Persuasive writing is often found in nonfiction and is almost never
used in fiction. It’s particularly worth mastering if you do any kind of
business writing—even just drafting emails to your colleagues! —since
clearly convincing people of your ideas or point of view can be so
valuable at work.

Ex. Essays, Speeches or presentations, Copywriting for conversion,

Sales writing, Cover letters
Letters of recommendation

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 EXPOSITORY WRITING
Expository writing exists to explain a subject or inform about a
particular topic area. The goal is simply to teach the reader something.

Expository writing should aim to answer any questions a reader might

have about a subject: think about the classic who, what, why, when,
how questions. You want to lay everything out clearly, avoiding any
jargon or overly technical language that may confuse people. Try to
approach expository writing from a beginner’s mindset to make your
piece as useful as possible.

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Most importantly, keep your emotions and opinions about a

subject out of it. Unlike persuasive writing, expository
writing shouldn’t have an angle or agenda—just the facts. 

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 EXPOSITORY WRITING

Most importantly, keep your emotions and opinions about a

subject out of it. Unlike persuasive writing, expository
writing shouldn’t have an angle or agenda—just the facts. 

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 When to Use Expository Writing?
Learning how to write in this style is valuable if you ever need to teach through
writing, even if that’s just training your colleague on a particular process. While
historically expository writing was mostly considered an academic style, you can
now see it all over the web, with content marketing blogs and how-to articles
teaching readers how to master all manner of skills.

Ex. How-to or “explainer” articles, help center articles, FAQ pages, or other copy
explaining how something works, Textbooks, Technical or business writing,
Training materials.

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CREATIVE
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As with any artistic medium, the rules are really only there to
be broken—and creative writing is any writing that exists
outside of the styles above, or even combines the styles in
surprising new ways. The goal of creative writing is really to
find new ways to tell stories that can surprise and delight
readers. 

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When it comes to creative writing, you can let yourself
literally rewrite the rules of what great writing can be. You
could try a new format or structure that you haven’t seen
before. You could bring other languages or multimedia
elements into your work. Let yourself have fun with it!

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 When to Use Creative Writing?
The purpose of creative writing is really for you to
experiment with your craft!

Ex. Humor writing or satire, Poetry, Flash fiction,

Creative nonfiction, Data journalism

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 DEFINITIONS OF CREATIVE WRITNG
• Creative Writing is a kind of writing that uses language in imaginative and bold
ways.
• Creative writing is often defined as the writing of fiction, where the author creates
events, scenes and characters, sometimes even a world. All expressions are creative.
• It can be gleaned that creative writing is the most artful of all forms of writing.
• It focuses on the writer’s imagination, although the writing may be fictional or
nonfictional.
• This is the literary form of writing. It usually makes use of idiomatic expressions,
figures of speech, symbolisms and other creative devices.

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 FEATURES OF CREATIVE WRITNG
• is highly subjective. Even though it describes real events, real people and real issues
of human life, its interpretation (how you see them, what you feel about them will be
unique to the writer).
• A creative writer’s perception is always unique.
• Creative writer has power to transform the readers into an entirely different world
(fictitious or make-believe it may be but so powerful that one can become a part of
it)
• The world or universe created by the creative writer is so powerful that often reader
identifies with one or more characters.
• There are such great creative writers that after reading their books/Poems you are
transformed as higher beings. You are not the same person what you were before
you read it.
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• The creative writer is much ahead than a scientist because what s/he visualizes
becomes a reality after many centuries.

• Creative writing uses the same words from the dictionary and same grammar but the
language is used in such a way that it conveys unique meaning and evokes specific
emotions in the readers. For example, in one of the Shakespeare’s plays a man who
repairs shoes on the road says, ‘I mend broken soles.’ Here for the listener ‘sole’ has
two meanings, ‘sole’ and ‘souls.’ He is using this word deliberately to imply dual
meanings.

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