Cainta Catholic College

Cainta, Rizal

SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT

Academic Year 2020-2021
First Semester

UNIT 1 – CREATIVE WRITING: AN INTRODUCTION

Module 2: OTHER FORMS OF WRITING
(TECHNICAL WRITING VS. LITERARY WRITING)

INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES: At the end of the module, you should be able to:
1. Differentiate literary writing from among other forms of writing;
2. Distinguish the features of literary and technical text.
3. Familiarize the elements of the two forms.

I. WARM UP (PRELIMINARY ACTIVITY)

(Please see the attached DLAS to answer this activity)
DIRECTIONS: Observe the picture below and make a short paragraph about it.

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II. LEARNING DISCUSSION:

IMAGINATIVE WRITING VS. TECHNICAL / ACADEMIC / OTHER FORMS OF

WRITING
1. IMAGINATIVE WRITING –
 Expresses the writer’s thoughts and feelings in creative, unique and poetic way.
 Purpose is to entertain and educate
 It contain is imaginative, metaphoric and symbolic.
 Its language is informal, artistic and figurative
 Vocabulary is written for general audience
 Tone (mood, attitude, feelings, emotions) is subjective

Examples: Poetry, Short Stories, Novels and Creative- nonfiction like travel writing, nature writing,
sports writing, autobiography, memoir, interviews, comics, playscripts and hypertexts. 

2. TECHNICAL WRITING –
 A type of writing where the author is writing about a particular subject that requires direction,
instruction, or explanation.
 Form of technical communication/documentation is SciTech or applied sciences that helps people
understand a product service.
 Purpose is to inform and to trigger the person into action to purchase a product/service.
 Instruct, persuade but never entertain.
 Content is factual and straightforward.
 Formal, standard or academic language.
 Uses specialized vocabulary
 Organized in sequential/systematic pattern
 • Requires advanced knowledge in specific fields
 • The tone is objective
 • Its audience is specific which evoke intellectual response from the audience
Examples:

User manuals for cellphones, computers, summary of experiments for journals, marketing
communications, training manuals and promotional brochures.
 III. ACTIVITY
(Please see the attached DLAS to answer this activity)

Study the two sonnets that follow and answer the question at the end of the text.

SONNET 18 (William Shakespeare) SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO A SUMMER

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of
May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course
untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his
shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
DAY
Your love is like El Nino
Yet you’re hotter, baby
How your body swings to the beat
Of a summer all too short.
The sun is beating down on us
Makes me wish for cooler weather.
Though it may seem like forever,
This season will too change,
But the heat of what we have will remain and
you will always be beautiful.
Even death cannot claim you
For here time does not exist
As long as there are people who enjoy summer,
And read poems, you shall live.

1. Give five examples of Figurative Language from the two sonnets.

2. What about Literal language? Which of the two employ literal language?
3. Compare the two sonnets. What happens when Figurative Language is transformed to Literal and Vice
Versa?
4. What is the function of the Figurative Language? What is lost in the text if one sticks to the literal and
does away with figurative?

REFERENCE/S:
Vasquez, LMV., Lee, G., Creative Writing. Manila City: REX Book Store. 2017