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    Understanding Various Forms and Types: Creative Non-Fiction

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    The document discusses different forms of creative non-fiction writing including personal essays, memoirs, literary journalism, and lyric essays. A personal essay focuses on a topic through the lens of personal experience. A memoir delves deeper into a significant moment in a writer's life using multiple stories. Literary journalism applies techniques of journalism to capture settings and perspectives in a more subjective way. A lyric essay also explores a topic's effect on the reader but relies more on descriptions and imagery to tell the story in a poetic manner.

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    The document discusses different forms of creative non-fiction writing including personal essays, memoirs, literary journalism, and lyric essays. A personal essay focuses on a topic through the lens of personal experience. A memoir delves deeper into a significant moment in a writer's life using multiple stories. Literary journalism applies techniques of journalism to capture settings and perspectives in a more subjective way. A lyric essay also explores a topic's effect on the reader but relies more on descriptions and imagery to tell the story in a poetic manner.

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    The document discusses different forms of creative non-fiction writing including personal essays, memoirs, literary journalism, and lyric essays. A personal essay focuses on a topic through the lens of personal experience. A memoir delves deeper into a significant moment in a writer's life using multiple stories. Literary journalism applies techniques of journalism to capture settings and perspectives in a more subjective way. A lyric essay also explores a topic's effect on the reader but relies more on descriptions and imagery to tell the story in a poetic manner.

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    Understanding Various Forms and Types: Creative Non-Fiction

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    The document discusses different forms of creative non-fiction writing including personal essays, memoirs, literary journalism, and lyric essays. A personal essay focuses on a topic through the lens of personal experience. A memoir delves deeper into a significant moment in a writer's life using multiple stories. Literary journalism applies techniques of journalism to capture settings and perspectives in a more subjective way. A lyric essay also explores a topic's effect on the reader but relies more on descriptions and imagery to tell the story in a poetic manner.

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    Understanding Various Forms and

    Types
    CREATIVE NON-FICTION
    PERSONAL ESSAY
    • A piece of writing, usually in the first person that
    focuses on the topic through the lens of the personal
    experience of the narrator.
    • It can be narrative or non-narrative, it can tell a story
    in a traditional way or improvise a new way for doing
    so.
    • Ultimately, it should always be based on true,
    personal experience.
    The Memoir
    • Is a longer piece of creative nonfiction that
    delves deep into a writer’s personal experience.
    • It typically uses multiple scenes/stories as a way
    of examining a writer’s life (or an important
    moment in a writer’s life).
    • It is usually but not necessarily, narrative.
    Literary Journalism
    • Uses the techniques of journalism ( such as interviews
    and reviews) in order to look outside of the straight
    forward, objective world that journalism creates.
    • It uses literary practices to capture the scene/settings
    of the assignment of the persona of the person being
    interviewed.
    • It can often be narrative or heavily imagistic.
    • Another important aspects of literary journalism is
    that it often stretches the idea of “objective facts” in
    order to better reflect the real life and real people.
    • In other words, while journalism is about being
    completely objectiveness literary journalism says the
    people can’t be objective because they already have
    their own subjective views about the world.
    •Therefore, by taking the “objectiveness” out
    of the journalistic process, the writer is
    more being truthful.
    Lyric Essay
    • Similar to the personal essay in that it also deals with
    a topic that affects the reader.
    • However the lyric essay relies heavily on descriptions
    and imagery.
    • Lyrical suggest something poetic, musical or flowing
    (in a sense). This type of piece use a heavily
    descriptive, flowing tone in order to tell the story.

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