CRWR 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Creative Nonfiction, Thesis Statement, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences
23 Jun 2019
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Factual writing --> e. g. history textbooks, biographies, news articles, academic essays, technical writing. It is objective, the author is invisible and only provides the facts. Creative non-fiction --> a shared space between fact and fabrication. Literary journalism (an example of creative nonfiction): uses literary devices/techniques to tell a story (e. g. setting/character/image/voice/theme) There is also a crafted narrative story --> i. e. not necessarily in chronological order, could contain flashbacks. The tone of the words in which we talk about the event also changes. There is also subjectivity --> it is not entirely objective like traditional journalism. Does not pretend it is objective, but always informs the reader that it is coming from an author. It was then revealed that this was not the case, as a lot of the chapters were fabricated (e. g. the kidnapping by the taliban) He made up these incidences to help sell his book.
