Nonfiction Writing Techniques PDF

Nonfiction is a wide kind of compositions that incorporates all books that are not established in an anecdotal account. Creative nonfiction can be classified in history and biography; it might be instructional; it can offer publication and humor; and it can mull over philosophical requests. If a boo...

Nonfiction is a wide kind of compositions that incorporates all books that are not established in an anecdotal account. Creative nonfiction can be classified in history and biography; it might be instructional; it can offer publication and humor; and it can mull over philosophical requests. If a book is not delved in a made-up story, by then it is certified. Creative nonfiction contrasts with other nonfiction, such as technical writing or journalism, which is likewise established in exact certainty however is not essentially written in support of its specialty. As a classification, imaginative true to life is still moderately youthful, and is just starting to be investigated with the equivalent basic examination given to fiction and verse. ◦**Fact.** The core of nonfiction is fact. Factual information shall be included in the piece and not a made up information. ◦**Extensive research**. Conducting and gathering information through research provide accurate and reliable information that you may use in writing your nonfiction write-up. ◦**Reportage/reporting.** Documenting the gathered information like interview and reports helps you keep records and files for future usages. ◦**Personal experience and personal opinion.** Since the main source of contents are based from the personal experiences and personal insights of the writer, it makes an easy way to write a piece. ◦**Explanation/Exposition.** Explaining the story to the reader is expected to attain the objectives of the piece. ◦**Essay format.** The outputs in creative nonfiction are often in essay format. Examples: Procedural Essay, Personal Essay, Literary essays, descriptive essay. ◦**Storytelling/narration.** The goal, challenges and obstacles, a turning point, and resolution of the story shall be delivered spontaneously to help the readers understand the flow of the story. ◦**Character/Characterization.** In a nonfiction story, characters are also important. The main character serves as the core or central idea of the storyline. The story revolves to the experiences of the main character with the help of the other characters. ◦**Setting, atmosphere and scene.** The writer creates scenes that are action-oriented; include dialogue; and contain vivid descriptions. ◦**Plot and plot structure.** These are the main events that make up the story. In a personal essay, there might be only one event. In a memoir, there are often several significant events. **◦Figurative language.** The use of figurative languages helps the writer to provide aesthetics to the piece. It gives vibrant effect to the story. ◦**Imagery.** The use of different sensory images helps also to add color in writing a nonfiction piece. ◦**Angle/Point of view.** Most of the time nonfiction adheres with the use of First Person Point of View since the experiences are being told. **◦Dialogue.** This can help to make the story run within the characters. ◦**Theme.** It is the central idea or universal truth presented in the work. Toolbox of Techniques: - · **Topic and Question.** In prewriting, you need to choose a topic and then try to link possible questions to be answered. In doing this, it helps you to focus on the areas that you intend to highlight, For instance, in choosing a topic on a travelogue, you need to formulate questions like How to get there? What are the amenities or activities that can be done? The transportation fares and routes. **Narrative Structure or Shape of a Story.** Narrative structure lets you to discover within the way on delivering the story through narration, meaning that you discover the details of the story and its structure as you write. In creative nonfiction, there are five popular narrative structures or shapes **Narrative structure:** Telling the story chronologically, from beginning to end. · **Braided Structure:** Telling a story by weaving or combining two, sometimes three, narratives or stories. · **Collage:** Using a thematic and segmented approach that combines a quotation or two, poem, scene, metaphor, simile, allusion, personification, image, vignette, anecdote, a short, short, true story, with an epiphany. · **Frame:** Telling a story by opening with a particular scene or reflecting and closing with a particular scene or reflection. · **Narrative with Flashback:** Telling a story using scene, summary, reflection, and flashbacks. **Distinctive Voice, Style, and Intimate Point of View**. All good writers have a distinctive voice, which is the persona of the writer expressed on the age. **Detail and Description.** Creative writing is often a form of discovery. As you compose, you review the subtleties, the recollections, the pictures, the felt feeling, the more profound importance. **Scene and Summary.** One of the most important techniques of creative nonfiction is writing in scenes. A scene recreates the experience of the writer for the reader. A scene evokes. To write a scene, you must show the reader what is happening. A scene often includes: **Setting -** time and place of the story **Action -** something that happens **Dialogue** - something being said **Vivid description** - concrete and specific details **Imagery** - language that invokes reader's sense of sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing **Point of View** - first, second, third persons **Figurative language** - simile, metaphor, etc. **Beginning, middle and ending** - a scene has a beginning, middle and end **Summary** - involves telling the reader what happened. Telling means to summarize and to compress, leaving out the details and descriptions. Telling is explaining.