WEEK 1 (L1) THEMES AND - Explanation/Exposition - Explaining the
TECHNIQUES story to the reader is expected to attain the
CREATIVE NONFICTION
- It is a genre of writing that uses literary
styles and techniques to create factually
accurate narratives.
- The art of bringing all the strategies of
storytelling to the narration of factual events.
According to a Poets & Writers article
published in 2009, Lee Gutkind is often
credited with coining the term “creative
nonfiction” as early as 1973, when he also
taught a course at the University of
Pittsburgh with those same words in its title.
It combines 100% factual information
with literary elements to tell real stories that
resonate with readers and provide insight to
actual events
Elements of Creative Nonfiction
writing must include:
- Facts: Creative nonfiction must be rooted
in facts. No part of the story can be made
up or fabricated.
- Extensive research: Both primary and
secondary sources should be used
throughout the research process. It is the
writer’s responsibility to conduct extensive
research for the most accurate narrative
possible.
- Reporting: The writer should use said
research to accurately document events or
personal experiences.
- 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.
objectives of the piece.
- Essay format - The outputs in creative
nonfiction are often in essay format.
Common Literary Devices
- Storytelling/narration - Unlike a
straightforward historical report, creative
nonfiction should be told like a story,
meaning that inciting incidents, goals,
challenges, turning points, and resolutions
are present.
- Setting, atmosphere, and scene
- Character/Characterization - 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.
- Plot and plot structure - the main events
that make up the story.
- Figure of speech
- Imagery
- Point of VIew
- Dialogue
- Theme - central idea
WEEK 1 (L2) THEMES AND
TECHNIQUES
Types of Creative Nonfiction
1. Personaly Essay - The writer uses
information that is based on
personal experience or a single
event.
2. Memoir - any nonfiction narrative
writing based in the author's
personal memories.
3. 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.
 4. Autobiography - The writer writes
his/her own life story, from birth to
the present, using the first person “I.”
5. Travel Writing - The writer creates
an article narration about travel
using literary devices and figurative
languages.
6. Food writing - The writer crafts
stories about food and cuisine using
literary techniques that may lead to a
review and recommendation
7. Profiles - The writer constructs life
stories of people using literary
devices.
THEME
- a thread that runs throughout a whole
book.
- relates to every subject and story and
piece of advice. It ties everything together.
In a literary text, the theme is the broader
message of the story. In nonfiction
informational texts, the central ideas are
the most essential ideas.
Constructing Paragraphs in Nonfiction
Text
- central idea – what the story is all
about (informal text)
- main idea - (literary passages)
- supporting details
Ponder with Ideas - you compose valid
and verifiable stories, not fiction.
TECHNIQUES TO USE IN WRITING
CREATIVE NONFICTION
1. Topic & Question - choose a topic
and then try to link possible
questions to be answered.
2. Narrative Structure or Shape of a
Story - It is the way of delivering the
story through narration, meaning
that you discover the details of the
story and its structure as you write.
3. Braided Structure - Telling a story
by weaving or combining two,
sometimes three, narratives or
stories.
4. Collage - Using a thematic and
segmented approach that combines
a quotation or two
5. Frame - telling a story by opening
with a particular scene or reflecting
and closing with a particular scene
or reflection.
6. Narrative with Flashback - telling a
story using scenes, summary,
reflection, and flashbacks.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. Scene and Summary - a scene
recreates the experience of the
writer for the reader.
10. Setting - time and place of the story
11. Action - something that happens
12. Dialogue - something being said
13. Vivid description - concrete and
14. Specific details Imagery - language
that invokes reader’s sense of sight,
smell, taste, touch, hearing
15. Point of View - first, second, third
persons
16. Figurative language - simile,
metaphor, etc.
 17. Beginning, middle, and ending - a
scene has a beginning, middle, and
end. The summary involves telling
the reader what happened.
18. Personal Reflection
These can include:
- Personal thoughts and feelings
- Opinions
- Ruminations
- Personal Perspective
- stream of consciousness
- Mediations
19. Word Choice/Diction - Check to
see that you use language in a fresh
and original way, making note of
connotation, and the implied
meaning of the word.
20. Sentence Variety (Length and
structure) - Use short and long,
and a variety of syntax to create a
personal essay, memoir, or literary
journalism
21. Lyrical Language - to express
emotion and evoke emotion in the
reader.
WEEK 3 ANALYZING
FACTUAL/NONFICTIONAL ELEMENTS IN
THE TEXTS
General Analysis Prompts for Nonfiction
Writing
- Purpose
- Organization
- Language
Types of Text:
- Narrative Nonfiction Writing
- Informational reports
- Argumentative Writing
WEEK 4-5 Writing a Draft
Using Literary
Conventions
Pre-writing aims to conceptualize and
outline things and concepts to be included
in your output
- can be associated to a draft of a
written output
Drafting is the preliminary stage of a written
work in which the author begins to develop
a more cohesive product.
A draft document is the product that the
writer creates in the initial stages of the
writing process.
In the drafting stage, the author develops a
more cohesive text and organizes thoughts.
PRE - WRITING/PLANNING
- This is the stage where the writer thinks of
the possible concept or ideas.
Conceptualizing helps to determine the flow
of the write-up
In writing your draft, you may consider the
following:
- Identify your topic
- Outline your story
- Use the learned styles, elements
and techniques.
- Impart Dialogues
- Think of possible titles
- Read your draft
WEEK 6 Evaluating a Draft
Areas or Aspects in Evaluating One’s
Nonfiction Draft
1. Clarity of ideas
 Revision has two types of processes where
the larger problems such as content and
organization and the smaller problems such
as sentence structure, word choice, and
formatting shall both be considered in
revising your output.

2. Appropriate Choice of Literary Revising your first draft:

Elements - discover helpless exchanges and
shallow characters, you will find plot
openings, lost backstories
- to attain the improvement
- writing style
- revising for structure,
- the substance of your piece
3. Appropriate Use of Element
Delete - unnecessary and repeated words,
parts or sequences
Rearrange - the paragraphs, sentences,
clauses or words
Add - some connectors, transitional devices
or even information
Form - each of the parts that are needed in
the piece
Talk - it aloud. Reading the text aloud surely
reveals the errors of the write-up.

Steps for potential writers to follow in

order to make their draft as good as it
can be;
1. Evaluate you draft
2. Revise the draft
4. Effective Combination of Ideas and the 3. Revise the draft to improve its style.
Chosen Element 4. Proofread, or edit your final draft.
- the last facet that can be evaluated is the
impact of these to the readers and Writing Process:
audience. - Prewriting
- Drafting
WEEK 7 Writing a Draft Using Literary - Evaluating
Conventions - Revising/Editing
- Publishing
Revising literally means “to see again” not
just once but multiple times. Made by gabby :)))