Creative nonfiction / Andrew John C. Baronda.

An introductory study on the traditional literary genres -- Lesson 1: Imagining life through fiction -- Lesson 2: Revealing inner thoughts through poetry -- Lesson 3: The Drama: showcasing the miseries and glories of life -- Exploring and understanding writing -- Lesson 1: Writing: its nature, characteristics, and processes -- Lesson 2: Understanding the rhetorical approach to writing -- A primer on creative nonfiction -- Lesson 1: Creative nonfiction: nature, features, and characteristics -- Lesson 2: Creative nonfiction and the other forms of writing -- Lesson 3: The Scaffolds of creative nonfiction -- Lesson 4: The Categories and forms of creative nonfiction -- Lesson 5: The Requisite qualities of creative nonfiction -- Experiencing nonfiction through reading and writing -- Lesson 1: Featuring the story of life: writing autobiographies -- Lesson 2: Recounting a person's life through biographical writing -- Lesson 3: Exploring the essay -- Lesson 4: Engaging in introspection through personal reflective essays -- Lesson 5: On being a wandering writer -- Lesson 6: Understanding literary journalism -- Lesson 7: The Emergence of blogging -- About the author.

"This learning material introduces and highlights creative nonfiction as one of the interesting, genres of literature. It primarily engages the learner in the critical study, survey and analysis of its salient features, conventions including various text forms which are under this literary form. Through this humble piece of work, the learners’ knowledge about creative nonfiction is desired to be broadened as they apply critical and creative thinking skills which aid in making them imaginative readers and writers of creative nonfiction texts. Also, it is anticipated to the genuine enthusiasm and interest exploring the beauty of creative nonfiction. Indeed, there is much to be learned about creative nonfiction, however, given the limited instructional time, this material hopes to motivate the learners to make the learning and teaching experience meaningful and enjoyable. The book includes relevant topics for meaningful class discussion and independent learning. It has also a variety of exercises that provide challenging episodes as these are designed to help the learners to explore their liking for and potentials in writing. Finally, this learning material is crafted not only to address the need to understand the contents of the lessons but ultimately, it has a strong commitment and adherence to providing greater opportunities to facilitate language and communication creatively and confidently which, in turn, will further improve the learners’ chances to succeed in whatever endeavors they may have planned for their lives."--Back cover.

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