Creative Non Fiction.

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In The Literature of Fact by Ronald Weber (Ohio Press University, 1980), Ronald Wood writes that until recent years, the most widely used term for creative non-fiction was “The New Journalism.” Other terms for the same kind of writing include “literary nonfiction,” “creative journalism,” and “literary reportage.” According to Weber, creative nonfiction is “. . . fact writing based on reporting that frequently employs techniques drawn from the art of fiction to create something of fiction’s atmosphere or feeling and that, most important, moves toward the intentions of fiction while remaining fully factual.” In other words, creative nonfiction is genre of writing that uses literary styles and techniques to create factually accurate narratives. We will produce three shorter pieces of creative nonfiction and one longer, article-length piece as a final (2000+ words). These essays will be assigned from many of a variety of forms, which we will discuss in class, including personal journalism, feature writing, personal or literary essay, autobiographical narrative, or forms yet-unnamed.