expressive writing

Whatever may be the apparent topic, the real subject of expressive writing is the writer. Whereas expository writing deals with facts and ideas, expressive writing aims to convey or simply record the writer's feelings and opinions. This type of writing is usually found in narrative essays, journal entries, and personal letters, it often employs figurative language and descriptive words and phrases that appeal to the reader's imagination. It always tells the reader as much about the writer as about the ostensible topic—in the following passage, the writer's eighth-grade graduation day.

I hoped the memory of that morning would never leave me. Sunlight was itself young, and the day had none of the insistence maturity would bring it in a few hours. In my robe and barefoot in the backyard, under cover of going to see about my new beans, I gave myself up to the gentle warmth and thanked God that no matter what evil I had done in my life he had allowed me to live to see this day. Somewhere in my fatalism I had expected to die, accidentally, and never have the chance to walk up the stairs in the auditorium and gracefully receive my hard-earned diploma. Out of God's merciful bosom I had won reprieve.

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