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CREATIVE NONFICTION
QUARTER 3 – WEEK 1
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Learning Task 1: Using the the K-W-L chart, write down on the first column (K) the things you know
about “Creative Nonfiction”, while on the second column, write the things that you want to learn
about the said word. Leave the last column blank as you will do this on the latter part of the lesson.
CREATIVE NONFICTION

WHAT I WANT TO WHAT I HAVE

WHAT I KNOW KNOW LEARNED

Nonfiction is a wide kind of compositions that incorporates all books that are not established in an anecdotal
account. Creative nonfiction can be classified in history and biography; it might be instructional; it can offer
publication and humor; and it can mull over philosophical requests. If a book is not delved in a made-up story,
by then it is certified.

The essence of originality are well-used in evident occasions, numerous true to life stories offer unequivocally
obstinate editorial on those genuine occasions. In a short concept, nonfiction deals with reality.

Moreover, nonfiction or literary narrative nonfiction is a genre of writing that uses creative ways on utilizing
literary styles and techniques with the springboard of factual and accurate narratives.

Creative nonfiction contrasts with other nonfiction, such as technical writing or journalism, which is likewise
established in exact certainty however is not essentially written in support of its specialty. As a classification,
imaginative true to life is still moderately youthful, and is just starting to be investigated with the equivalent
basic examination given to fiction and verse.

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When you are reading or encountering stories that are based from reality or sources came from the
truth, you can simply tell that it is creative nonfiction.
 Fact. The core of nonfiction is fact. Factual information shall be included in the piece and not a made
up information.
 Extensive research. Conducting and gathering information through research provide accurate and
reliable information that you may use in writing your nonfiction write-up.
 Reportage/reporting. Documenting the gathered information like interview and reports helps you
keep records and files for future usages.
 Personal experience and personal opinion. Since the main source of contents are based from
the personal experiences and personal insights of the writer, it makes an easy way to write a piece.
 Explanation/Exposition. Explaining the story to the reader is expected to attain the objectives of
the piece.
 Essay format. The outputs in creative nonfiction are often in essay format. Examples:

Procedural Essay, Personal Essay, Literary essays, descriptive essay.

Creative nonfiction is the literature of fact. Yet, creative nonfiction writer utilizes many of the literary devices
of fiction writing. The following is a list of the most common literary devices that writers incorporate into their
nonfiction writing:

 Storytelling/narration. The goal, challenges and obstacles, a turning point, and resolution of the
story shall be delivered spontaneously to help the readers understand the flow of the story.

 Character/Characterization. In a nonfiction story, characters are also important. The main

character serves as the core or central idea of the storyline. The story revolves to the experiences of
the main character with the help of the other characters.
 Setting, atmosphere and scene. The writer creates scenes that are action-oriented; include
dialogue; and contain vivid descriptions.
 Plot and plot structure. These are the main events that make up the story. In a personal essay,
there might be only one event. In a memoir, there are often several significant events.
 Figurative language. The use of figurative languages helps the writer to provide aesthetics to the
piece. It gives vibrant effect to the story.
 Imagery. The use of different sensory images helps also to add color in writing a nonfiction piece.
 Angle/Point of view. Most of the time nonfiction adheres with the use of First Person Point of View
since the experiences are being told.
 Dialogue. This can help to make the story run within the characters.

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 Theme. It is the central idea or universal truth presented in the work.

The 5’Rs of Creative Nonfiction

Lee Gutkind, who is a writer, professor, and expert on creative nonfiction, wrote an essay called “The
Five R’s of Creative Nonfiction.” In this essay, he identified five essential elements of creative nonfiction. These
include:

1. Creative nonfiction uses a real life elements. The writer creates concepts of a story using the vital and real
information about the subject which can be associated on close attributes of the real experiences.

2. Creative nonfiction lets the writer to engage on his personal reflection about the subject. After gathering
information, the writer needs to scrutinize and analyze the gathered information. Assessing and
considering his ideologies and beliefs. Through this, it will help the writer to be more factual based.

3. Creative nonfiction instructs the author to do a complete research. The author needs to find out relevant
and vital information about the subject. The writer needs to finish investigating and weighing information
that will be included in the story. Finishing auxiliary

examination will lead to create a complete and substantial contents. For an instance, looking into an individual
diary, or meeting a companion or relative, to guarantee that the data is honest and genuine.
4. The fourth aspect of creative nonfiction is reading. Reading while conducting research is not enough. The
writer must recall the components through reading to improve and make some modifications.

5. The final element of creative nonfiction is writing. Writing imaginative true to life is both a workmanship
and specialty. The craft of inventive true to life necessitates that the essayist utilizes his gifts, senses,
innovative capacities, and creative mind to compose paramount imaginative true to life.

Types of Creative Nonfiction

Creative nonfiction always deals on reality. Reality can be about using the topics like the use of individual
encounter, occasion, or issue in the open eye. There are different classes or categories to consider in creative
nonfiction such as the individual article, journal, and life account.

 Personal Essay. The writer uses information that is based on personal experience or a single event,
which leads in significant personal meaning or a lesson learned that he encountered. The writer uses
the first person “I.”

 Memoir. The writer creates a real story within a time or period of life, one that contributed a
significant personal meaning and truth. The writer uses the first person

“I” in the story.

 Literary journalism essay. The writer creates an output on an issue or topic using the understood
literary devices, such as the elements of fiction and figurative languages.

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 Autobiography. The writer writes his/her own life story, from birth to the present, using the first
person “I.”

 Travel Writing. The writer creates article narration about travel using literary devices and figurative
languages.

 Food writing. The writer crafts stories about food and cuisine using literary techniques that mat lead
to a review and recommendation.

 Profiles. The writer constructs life stories of people using literary devices.

Green (2018) defined theme as a thread that runs throughout a whole book. When done well, the theme
relates to every subject and story and piece of advice. It ties everything together.

Sometimes, themes are obvious. In Harry Potter, there are treats battling baddies, and the primary subject is
acceptable versus evil. It likewise has subjects of bigotry and correspondence.

In a literary text, theme is the broader message of the story. In nonfiction informational texts, the central
ideas are the most essential ideas.

Central Ideas. These are the most essential ideas of a text; the key points the author wants to make! The BIG
idea.

Nonfiction works use supporting details to develop central ideas. Details within the text support and develop
the central idea in the following ways:

 Prove the concept since you must consider reality;

 Explain the central idea of the story;

 Define the concept;

 Show some examples and illustrations; and

 Give additional information.

Determining Central Ideas

Often, the central idea is directly stated near the beginning of the text. However, readers may also have to
infer the central idea by determining what point (message/idea) all the details come together to support.

The main ideas of individual paragraphs will lead to the central idea of the whole text.

Constructing Paragraphs in Nonfiction Text

Each paragraph has its own main idea. The main idea of each paragraph is used to support the central idea of
the whole text.

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The main idea of a paragraph must be associated with supporting information and evidences to strengthen the
main idea.

The details of the piece shall go along with the central idea to attain unity and coherence.

Delivering paragraphs shall consider the strength and weakness of the ideas being imparted in the story.
Reviewing the central idea will lead you to paragraphs that are substantial and purposive.

Ponder with Ideas

Writing creative nonfiction is tied in with recounting to genuine stories. You can recount to an anecdote about
yourself, making expositions about close to home encounters. You can likewise expound on others, spots and
occasions on the planet.

In nonfiction, you compose valid and verifiable stories, not fiction. You will need to introduce reality and
realities in a convincing, engaging, and noteworthy way with the goal that others will be enlivened to peruse
your story. To compose any of these types of imaginative true to life, you have numerous procedures to look
over, e.g. scene, synopsis, individual reflection.

In a blog of Hood (2012), he identified the toolbox of techniques that writers are expected to use when writing
creative nonfiction.

Topic and Question. In prewriting, you need to choose a topic and then try to link possible questions to be
answered. In doing this, it helps you to focus on the areas that you intend to highlight, For instance, in choosing
a topic on a travelogue, you need to formulate questions like How to get there? What are the amenities or
activities that can be done? The transportation fares and routes.

 Narrative Structure or Shape of a Story. Narrative structure lets you to discover within the way
on delivering the story through narration, meaning that you discover the details of the story and its
structure as you write. In creative nonfiction, there are five popular narrative structures or shapes
 Narrative structure: Telling the story chronologically, from beginning to end.

 Braided Structure: Telling a story by weaving or combining two, sometimes three, narratives or
stories.

 Collage: Using a thematic and segmented approach that combines a quotation or two, poem, scene,
metaphor, simile, allusion, personification, image, vignette, anecdote, a short, short, true story, with an
epiphany.

 Frame: Telling a story by opening with a particular scene or reflecting and closing with a particular
scene or reflection.

 Narrative with Flashback: Telling a story using scene, summary, reflection, and flashbacks.

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Distinctive Voice, Style, and Intimate Point of View. All good writers have a distinctive voice, which is
the persona of the writer expressed on the age.
Good writers also have a unique style. Additionally have a one of a kind style. An author's style is his/her
demeanor of persona on the page. It incorporates decision of expression, sentence assortment, and tone,
perspective, utilization of illustration, and other abstract gadgets. The tone of the keeping in touch with itself is
in every case well disposed, conversational. Stories are regularly told utilizing the main individual perspective.

Detail and Description. Creative writing is often a form of discovery. As you compose, you review the
subtleties, the recollections, the pictures, the felt feeling, the more profound importance. You'll review from
memory critical, specific subtleties and afterward thinks of them down. You'll make distinctive depictions with
solid, explicit, and specific subtleties. You don't need to incorporate everything about, those that are huge or
significant. Frequently you'll utilize tactile symbolism, language that conjures the feeling of sight, smell, taste,
contact, or hearing. The reason for including subtlety is to reproduce the involvement with the psyche of the
readers.

Scene and Summary. One of the most important techniques of creative nonfiction is writing in scenes. A
scene recreates the experience of the writer for the reader. A scene evokes. To write a scene, you must show
the reader what is happening. A

scene often includes:

Setting - time and place of the story

Action - something that happens

Dialogue - something being said

Vivid description - concrete and specific details

Imagery - language that invokes reader’s sense of sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing
Point of View - first, second, third persons

Figurative language - simile, metaphor, etc.

Beginning, middle and ending - a scene has a beginning, middle and end

Summary involves telling the reader what happened. Telling means to summarize and to compress, leaving
out the details and descriptions. Telling is explaining.
You should create scenes of important events, such as for a setback and the turning point.
Techniques of Fiction. You’ll also rely on the techniques of fiction to tell a true story, including:

 Setting-time and place and context, which provides the backdrop to the true story
 Narrative Arc ( inciting incident, conflict and setback, climax, epiphany, resolution)
 Point of View- first person “I”, Second Person “You”, third person “He/ She”
 Character development- Developing character through action, dialogue, description
 Vivid Description-descriptions that are concrete and specific

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 Use of imagery-literal imagery through description; figurative imagery with simile or metaphor
 Theme-the meaning of the story

The narrative arc is used to write a personal narrative essay, sometimes a memoir. The opinion essay,
meditative essay, and collage essay don’t require a narrative. These sorts of essays tend to be structured
around a theme.

Poetic Devices-Figurative Language. You’ll often use one or more of the following poetic devices to write
creative nonfiction:

 Simile
 Metaphor
 Symbolism
 Personification
 Imagery
 Assonance and alliteration
 Allusion
Experienced Writers often use any of the above to write creative nonfiction. Simile and metaphor are the tools
of choice.
Personal Reflection. In most types of creative nonfiction, you’ll share personal reflection with the reader.
These can include:

 Personal thoughts and feelings

 Opinions
 Ruminations
 Personal perspective
 stream of consciousness
 Mediations
Personal reflection is required to write a memoir. It is also used to write a personal narrative, opinion,
meditative, and lyrical essay. Personal reflection can also be incorporated into literary journalism.
Word Choice/Diction. Check to see that you use language in a fresh and original way, making note of
connotation, the implied meaning of the word. As well, selecting words with the best meaning. Meaning refers
to diction. Avoid using clichés and jargon.

Sentence Variety (Length and structure). Use short and long, and a variety of syntax to create a personal
essay, memoir, or literary journalism. Sentence variety includes:

 Intentional Fragment. e.g. A pen. Pad of paper. Time, lots of time. Experimentation. A creative mind.
These are the requirements of creative writing.

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 Simple, compound, complex, compound-complex sentences

 Parallel structure in sentences, e.g. I require a pen, pad of paper, spare time, experimentation, and a
creative mind, to write creatively, to write poetry, to write fiction, to write a personal essay, to write
anything.

 Declarative (statement of fact), Interrogative (ask a question), exclamatory (emphatic) sentences

 Inverted sentence. E.g. The book of poetry he wrote…The film, the script, the special effects, the story,
I enjoyed.

 Lose sentence and periodic sentences. When writing a periodic sentence, the main idea and clause are
at the end of the sentence. For a lose sentence, the main idea and independent clause are at the
beginning of the sentence.

Lyrical Language. Sometimes, a writer will use a lyrical style to express emotion and evoke emotion in the
reader. This is often the case when writing a lyrical essay. The writing style is based on the following:
 repetition of words, phrases, clauses;

 parallel structure;

 rhyme, both rhyme and internal rhyme;

 alliteration and assonance; and

 sensory imagery.

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