Week 04: Writing

This weeks reading concerns the nature in which we write and thus the nature of what the reader reads. A large potion of the reading concerns the creative aspects of writing and how creative writing is seen as separate from academic.

I feel as if the writer of this reading has only disproved the point they wished to prove, that academic writing can be creative and eloquent. I found the use of creative language and the lack of formality to the writing made it completely distracting. I found myself re-reading paragraphs, scrambling to identity a argument or point in the text amongst all the imaginative imagery. I even found myself 'googling' terms the text was supposed to be explaining, because I found it extremely hard to coax a definition out of the text.
Creative writing is whimsical because it is only trying to impart a story of events upon the reader, where vague non-essential knowledge can be compensated for by our great imaginations (ie. How a character looks, what a room in a scene looks like). However academic writing, requires the transfer of specific and specialised concepts and theory, it requires a sharper use of language and a formal style of writing to best impart the knowledge and not distract from the essential information.