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CREATIVE NONFICTION B I U

CREATIVE
NONFICTION
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Creative- refers to the use of Nonfiction – factually accurate

literary craft, the techniques fiction prose about real people and
writers, playwrights, and poets events
employ to present – in a compelling, vivid, dramatic
manner
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Creative nonfiction - a genre of

writing that uses literary styles
and techniques to create
factually accurate narratives.
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A.K.A:
Literary nonfiction or
Narrative nonfiction
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Technical / Academic Writing and Creative Writing
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Technical / Academic Writing and Creative Writing
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Creative nonfiction -
is an art of bringing all the
strategies of storytelling to the
narration of factual events.
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Forms and Types 6 Creative Nonfiction
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I remember sitting in his backyard in his garden, one day, and he started talking about
God. He [Jobs] said, “Sometimes I believe in God, sometimes I don’t. I think it’s 50/50
maybe. But ever since I’ve had cancer, I’ve been thinking about it more, and I find
myself believing a bit more, maybe it’s because I want to believe in an afterlife, that
when you die, it doesn’t just all disappear. The wisdom you’ve accumulated, somehow it
lives on.”
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Gawande looks head-on at the moral and physical struggles of end-of-life care.
It’s a matter that’s personal for him: he is a Boston surgeon who is perfectly typical in his
difficulties talking about death with terminally ill patients. How does a physician balance
the effort to prolong life with the fact that most of us would prefer a death that is peaceful
and non-medicalized? Gawande brings scrutiny and intelligence to a story that moves
through the experience of several different kinds of patients, from a young woman who
learns she has cancer when she is 39 weeks pregnant to a 72-year-old woman with multiple
health problems who relies on an oxygen tank.
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I could find endless words in the thesaurus to describe my mother, but the one
word that stands out above the rest is “incredible.”
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The greenery in Washington state at this time is sometimes hard to describe in

its heavenly sight.
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Creative nonfiction
• requires the skill of the storyteller and the
research ability of the reporter
• It doesn’t just report facts; it delivers facts in
ways that move people toward a deeper
understanding of the topic.
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Creative nonfiction writers

• must see beyond facts “to discover their
underlying meaning
• they must “dramatize that meaning in an
interesting, evocative, and informative way”