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Nonfiction Notes

What is nonfiction? Nonfiction is a form of literature based primarily on facts. It is prose writing that presents and explains ideas or tells about real people, places, objects, or events.

The Five Main Purposes of Nonfiction Writing: Entertain Inform Reflect Describe Persuade

Types of Nonfiction Writing: Narrative – written as a story. Biographies – a life story written by another person. Autobiographies – the writer’s account of his or her own life. Memoirs and Journals – contain personal thoughts and reflections. Travel Literature – records journeys in the world, which are often journeys within yourself. Letters – written texts addressed to a particular person or organization. Blogs – (a.k.a. web logs) journals posted and frequently updated for an online audience.

Expository – writing that explains or informs Expository – writing that explains or informs. It presents facts and ideas, or explains a process. Essays, speeches, and textbooks are all examples of expository writing. Persuasive – writing that is intended to convince the reader to adopt a particular point of view or take a particular course of action. Newspaper editorials, letters to the editor, speeches, essays, and advertisements are all forms of persuasive writing.

Descriptive – writing that is a portrait, in words, of a person, place, or object. Descriptive writing uses images that appeal to the five senses. Most forms of writing can be descriptive. For each of these types of nonfiction, the writing may be objective, based on facts, or subjective, based on opinion. Sometimes the writing is a combination of the two, but, more often than not, a reader can identify which is more common.

Elements of Nonfiction Writing: Organization – the way a writer chooses to arrange and present information in a single piece of writing. Chronological – presents information in time order, from first to last or last to first. Compare-and-Contrast – shows the ways in which two or more subjects are similar and different. Cause-and-Effect – shows the relationship among events. Problem-and-Solution – identifies a problem and then offers a solution.

Tone – the writer’s attitude toward his or her audience and subject. Formal – uses formal language, no slang. Everything is grammatically correct. Informal – written as though you were writing to a friend. Voice – the writer’s way of “speaking” in his or her writing.

Objective vs. Subjective Writing – Objective – facts that can be proved true by the senses. Subjective – verifiable (true) only by reference to your own state of mind and experiences. Nobody knows the truth of that state except the writer.