LITERARY JOURNALISM

OR REPORTAGE
Creative Nonfiction
MOTIVATIONAL
ACTIVITY
FACT OR BLUFF

Direction: Read and analyze the

following statement. Identify if
it is a FACT or a BLUFF
FACT OR BLUFF?

1. Literary journalism piece should be well-researched, focus on a brief

period, and concentrate on what is happening outside of the writer’s
small circle of personal experience and feelings.

2. Literary journalism is fiction—the people and events are not real.

3. Literary journalists must deliver facts and comment on current events

in ways that speak to much larger big picture truths about culture,
politics, and other major facets of life.
FACT OR BLUFF?

4. Literary journalism is a style of reportage that presents imagined

stories, using storytelling techniques to create a gripping and personal
form writing.

5. Literary Journalists write information that take the form of factual

reports but shape them in a way that the report reads like a fiction.
WHAT IS LITERARY
JOURNALISM?
SEARCH
the creative nonfiction form that LITERARY
comes closest to newspaper and
magazine writing. It is fact-driven
JOURNALISM
and requires research and, often, OR
interviews. Also called "immersion REPORTAGE
journalism". IS ...
CHARACTERISTICS OF LITERARY
JOURNALISM/REPORTAGE

1. Uses dramatic literary techniques

2. Answers the questions who, what, when, where,
and why
3. Factually Accurate
4. Seeks to answer a "universal truth" or "big idea."
 EXAMPLE TEXT
People "rise out of the earth, they sweat and starve for
a few years", living what seems a very pointless life.
People have become immune to emotions felt when a
friend dies, nobody "noticing that they are gone".
They are so poor as to "own literally nothing except
the rags they stand up in".

An Extract from Marrakech by George Orwell

 EXAMPLE TEXT
[People "rise out of the earth, they sweat and starve
for a few years"], living what seems a very pointless
life. [People have become immune to emotions felt
when a friend dies, nobody "noticing that they are
gone". ]
They are so poor as to "own literally nothing except
the rags they stand up in".
ACTIVITY 1
 ACTIVITY 1
Directions: Respond to the text above by completing the
information on the grid below.

What does the author What is the heart of What ideas are
want you to know? this story? relevant to life,
beyond the
story?
ASSIGNMENT
 Directions: In whole a pad paper, write a
paragraph about what you have understood
and what you have realized after this lesson.

Minimun of 150 words

Submission next meeting

 THANK YOU
I hope you can get useful knowledge from this presentation.
Good luck !