 know the audience

 askyourself what it is you want the document to

accomplish.
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more complex . It is tied to a specific discipline or
field. This is to be expected because all fields have
both specialized knowledge and specialized
terminology.

needs to be structured and executed adhering to a

series of guidelines.
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 is
closely related to the process, or "how to," essay. Its
function is to clearly explain the steps to accomplishing a
task so anyone can do it.

 notdone to entertain its reader. It is wholly written to inform

someone. Some technical articles are sometimes written to
trigger its reader to making an action beneficial to the one of
the writer.
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OPERATIONS GUIDES

PROMOTIONAL BROCHURES

ONLINE ARTICLES
 CREATIVE WRITING
 to
entertain and educate the author’s readers. It has many
genres and sub-genres. Such examples range from poems to
short stories and even in novels and trilogies.

 We enjoy reading novels and stories, not because they are

necessary to read or helpful for us, just because we get a
certain pleasure from reading them, the pleasure which can’t
be got from reading technical writing.
 TECHNICAL WRITING CREATIVE WRITING
CONTENT Factual, straight-forward Imaginative, metaphoric or
symbolic
AUDIENCE Specific General
PURPOSE Inform, instruct, persuade Entertain, provoke,
captivate
STYLE Formal, standard, Informal, artistic,
academic figurative
TONE Objective Subjective
VOCABULARY Specialized General, evocative
ORGANIZATION Sequential, systematic Arbitrary, artistic