Republic of the Philippines

UNIVERSITY OF SAINT ANTHONY

City of Iriga

ARCHITECTURE AND ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

Tagong, Mark Lincel L. BSCE- 3 English 3T June 25, 2015

Ode to a Shoe
My son’s tennis shoes rest temporarily in a
heap against the kitchen door,
their laces soiled, their tongues hanging out
like exhausted terriers.
The soles, worn down on the insides from
sliding into second,
are green, the shades of summer.
Canvas exteriors, once pristine white, are the
colors of the rainbow –
sun bleached, mud splattered, rained on,
ketchup and mustard adorned,
each shoe shouting a child’s joyous
exuberance: “I’m alive!”

This ode to a shoe is not actually technical; this is a part of creative writing. In
Communication Continuum, there are five types of writing: creative writing, expressive writing,
expository writing, journalism, and technical writing. The poem “an ode to a shoe” uses
connotative and expressive words. If I were to make this in technical form, it should have
objective about the certain product with short sentences and paragraphs with denotative words
that runs like this:

The Nike Airmax 90 Tennis Shoe will be manufactured to the following specification:

Sole: Neoprene rubber #345

white enameled paint
1.635" high
Slammer waffle-textured©
Uppers: Blue Canvas
Tongue: White canvas
Oval Slammer© logo heat-
pressure sealed, centered .50”
from all sides
Laces: 15” long
100% cotton
Aglets: Clear polyacetate plastic #290
Weight: 1 lb. 6 oz.

These two writing “ode to a shoe” and the one I wrote further illustrates the difference
between technical writing and creative writing including other types of writing. Of course, there
is a factor considered in technical writing and other types of writing: Development, Grammar,
Organization, Style, Document Design and it can be easily shown above.