The ability of an individual to write meaningful sentences by using grammatical tools that can be well understood by readers is known as creative writing. The most popular type of short creative writing skills include notice writing and classified advertisements. The notice is a type of formal means of communication whereas advertisement is considered informal. The notices are used to display a particular piece of information to a group of people. Notices are usually displayed on display boards in school or in public places. Government issues notices in newspapers. Advertisements are informal by nature. They provide a piece of information in the newspaper or television that helps in persuading people to buy something, to apply for a job etc. 

Here, we will be discussing creative writing skills topics including the notice writing format, note taking, advertisement format, and others. So, without any further ado, let’s get started! 

Format for notice writing:

1. Name of institution: The notice must begin with the name of the organisation issuing the notice.
2. Word notice: The title ‘Notice’ should be written under the name of the organisation.
3. Date of issue: The date  of issuing the notice should be mentioned. 
4. Heading: Heading should be given regarding subject to the notice. Heading should be attractive so that it intrigues the reader to read the notice. 
5. Body: Body of the notice is considered as the most important part of the notice. It should define all the necessary information related to the event, like when the event is going to take place? What is the venue of the event? Who is issuing the notice? Whom to contact to gather more information?
6. Writer’s signature: The writer’s signature, its name in block letters and designation should be provided. It allows the reader to know about the authority issuing the notice and interested parties can easily contact the writer. 

Points to include in Notice: 

1. Notice should contain information regarding what is going to happen?
2. The venue of event should be clarified
3. Information regarding when the event will take place should be given
4. Who is eligible to apply for the event should be written in notice
5. Whom  to contact for additional information, what is the purpose of the event?
6. The phone number should be provided under the notice and designation should be clearly written. 
7. Notice should be written in the box.

Types of notices: 

• Public notice: Public notices are issued by the government agency for some legislative body for rulemaking proceeding or for the certain rulemaking. 
• Constructive notice: Constructive notices are the sort of legal fiction that states that a person or a legal entity should have known a certain thing. 
• Actual notice: Actual notice is a legal term that specifies in some form of the notice that an individual has been made aware of a particular thing. 
• Implied notice: Implied notices are imported to parties that have knowledge of the fact or the circumstance that could have caused a reasonable party to enquire further along with having possession of a means of knowing a particular fact. 

Format for classified advertisement:

• An advertisement should clearly state its category like: for sale, to let, to purchase etc. 
• Body of the matter should be provided, classified and details of the product, service to be advertised. Body of advertisement must be short but necessary information should be precisely given. 
• Contact address or mobile number should be provided within the body. So that the interested party can easily contact the owners of the advertisement. 

Important tips for advertisement:

• Always try to use short sentences.
• Use different sentence structures to attract the customers.
• Try keeping the ad short
• Close with the statement that pushes the reader to be in action.

Most famous Types of advertisements: 

• Situation vacant
• Situation wanted
• To let 
• For sale
• Bride wanted
• Bride groom wanted

Conclusion: 

Creative writing skills allow writers to convey a message to the group of people and the information is well integrated by the readers. Short writing skills include: notice writing and classified advertisement. Both of these are widely used. However, notices and classified advertisements are usually of formal nature. By analysing the format of writing one can easily understand notice writing and classified advertisements.