Creative

Nonfiction
Module 11
Compare!!!

Reflective True
Essay Narrative
Understanding Various
Forms and Types of
Creative Nonfiction
• It expresses the writer’s insights on a given subject matter.

• It examines and observes the writer’s individual experience

as he or she progresses through a certain event, dilemma, or
conflict.
Reflective essays describe an event or
experience, then analyze the meaning of
that experience and what can be learned
from it.
This is where the author typically shares the main focus of the experience will
be.

It commonly shows how the author had changed and what he had
learned from the experience. The cause of the changes within the
author is also included in the body.

It tells the reader the reason behind the changes and how these affected the
author’s perspective.
Tips in Writing Reflective Essay

Strengthen your
Map your mind beginning.
 Create a map in your mind to
 Create a strong introduction.
organize your thoughts about the
 The beginning should be strong
event.
enough and eye-catching so that
 Identify your arguments and think
the readers will be engaged in
of how you will support your
reading your essay.
thesis statement.
Tips in Writing Reflective Essay
Keep it short
 Make sure that you only include
important details in your essay
if you do not want your reader
to get tired of reading your
work.
Conclusion is in
the body
 The body should explain the
conclusions and the understandings.
 Draw supporting ideas from the
body to give concrete and specific
details.
Tips in Writing Reflective Essay

The summary in conclusion

Describe your overall lesson, feeling, and realization you have had as
the result of your experiences. This may sound like “the moral lesson,”
but by arriving in the summary, your readers may think otherwise.
True Narrative

 A narrative, in its broadest meaning, is a tale or a story that has

been recounted in an organized set of events.
 While a true narrative is a story, recounted or remembered
based on true events, there is a thin line between a fictional
narrative and a true narrative.
True Narrative

If the work is based on real life situations without any

fictional embellishments, it is considered as a true
narrative. It requires the writer to tell a story that is
based on true events using literary techniques to
make a story interesting to the readers.
 Tips in Writing a True Narrative

Just tell the story Narrate

You are the narrator in the story;
As a writer, do not think about the
therefore, less involvement should be
facts and the truth behind the story,
included in the story unless it is
just tell the story and revise it later.
about your own experience.
 Tips in Writing a True Narrative

Use vivid words Begin with a bang

Create a very interesting beginning
Using vivid words can make your
for your story. Remember that the
readers believe that they are present
first few sentences of a narrative may
in the story that you are telling.
make or break you as a writer.
 Tips in Writing a True Narrative

End with another bang

Create an ending that the readers

would want for more. Complete it with
a realization, a quote or something that
will leave a mark to your readers
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