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Creative Nonfiction
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Creative writing
Types of Nonfiction
Definition of Nonfiction
Elements of Creative nonfiction
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Fi9iction elements
Glesne, C. (2016). Becoming qualitative researchers An introductiMerrileeDelvalle969
Glesne, C. (2016). Becoming qualitative researchers: An introduction (5th ed.). Pearson.
CH 8
Chapter 8 Crafting Your Story: Writing Up Qualitative Data
One hopes that one’s case will touch others. But how to connect? Not by calculation, I think, not by the assumption that in the pain of my toothache, or my father’s, or Harry Crosby’s, I have discovered a “universal condition of consciousness.” One may merely know that no one is alone and hope that a singular story, as every true story is singular, will in the magic way of some things apply, connect, resonate, touch a major chord.
(Pachter, 1981, p. 72)
Why do we write? The report is, of course, an expected part of what is in store when you sign on as a researcher. Some of you may write because you have to do so, but I suspect that most of you have larger intentions. Writing is not easy. Hours turn into days and days turn into months and months, sometimes into years, and you are still working on the same manuscript. Why would you invest so much time reading, researching, writing, and rewriting? At a basic level, you have observations, insights, and experiences you want to share. But why do you want to share them? What about those nagging voices of self-doubt that mutter, “It’s all been said before; nothing you say is really new. Who are you to think you have anything to say?” But when you quiet those voices and get down to writing, you know that underneath it all you want to connect with others, get them to think about something in a different way and, perhaps, act in a different way. In short, as Mary Pipher (2007) titles her book, you may be Writing to Change the World. If that be the case, then your writing needs to be read. For it to be read, it needs to engage. Fortunately, different people are engaged by different styles of writing, but no matter the style, writing that is read is writing in which the author is careful and deliberate in the use of words. Good writing gives shape to ideas and kindles imagination and visions of the possible.
In qualitative inquiry, writing ultimately gives form to the researcher’s clumps of carefully organized and analyzed data. It links together thoughts that developed throughout the research process and were jotted in journals. The act of writing inspires new thoughts and connections. Writing constructs the housing for the meaning that you and others make of the research endeavor. As writer, you engage in a sustained act of construction, which includes selecting a particular “story” to tell from the data you have analyzed, and creating the literary form that you believe best conveys your account. It perhaps matters to some—but needs no resolution—whether the researcher’s construction is more like that of an architect, proceeding from a vision embodied in a plan, or like that of a painter, whose vision emerges over time from intuition, sense, and feeling. For many, constructing a text is possibly some combination of both plan and intuition. This cha ...
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Inventing the University E ducation may well be, as of rig.docxvrickens
Inventing the University
E ducation may well be, as of right, the instrument whereby
every individual, in a society like our own, can gain access to any
kind of discourse. But we well know that in its distribution, in what
it permits and in what it prevents, it follows the well-trodden
battle-lines of social conflict. Every educational system is a political
means of maintaining or of modifying the appropriation of dis-
course, with the knowledge and the powers i t carries with it.
- FOUCAULT, T H E D I S C O U R S E ON LANGUAGL
. . . the text is the form of the social relationshps made visible, pal-
pable, material.
- BERNSTEIN, COULS, MODALITIES A N D T H E PROCESS
or. CUI.TUKAL REPRODUCTION: A MODEL
Every time a student sits down to write for us, he has to invent the university
for the occasion - invent the university, that is, or a branch of it, like history
or anthropology or economics or English. The student has to learn to speak
our language, to speak as we do, to try on the peculiar ways of knowing,
selecting, evaluating, reporting, concluding, and arguing that define the dis-
course of our community. Or perhaps I should say the various discourses of
our conununity, since it is in the nature of a liberal arts education that a stu-
dent, after the first year or two, must learn to try on a variety of voices and
interpretive schemes - to write, for example, as a literary critic one day and
as an experimental psychologist the next; to work within fields where the
rules governing the presentation of examples or the development of an argu-
ment are both distinct and, even to a professional mysterious.
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From W h e n a W r i t e r Can't W r i t e : Studies i t ~ Writer's Block arrd Ot/rer Conrposing-Process
Problems, ed. Mike Rose (New York: Guilford P, 1985) 134-66. I
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The student has to appropriate (or be appropriated by) a specialized dis-
course, and he has to do this as though he were easily and comfortably one
with his audience, as though he were amember of the academy or an historian
or an anthropologist or an economist; he has to invent the university by
assembling and mimicking its language while finding some compromise
between idiosyncracy, a personal history, on the one hand, and the require-
ments of convention, the history of a discipline, on the other. He must learn
to speak our language. Or he must dare to speak it or to carry off the bluff,
since speaking and writing will most certainly be required long before the
skill is "learned." And this, understandably, causes problems.
Let me look quickly at an example. Here is an essay written by a college
freshman. --
In the past time I thought that an incident was creative was when 1 had
to make a clay model of the earth, but not of the classical or your every-
day model of the earth which consists of the two cores, the mantle and
the crust. I thought of these t ...
The idea is the heart of your story. Knowing it keeps you on target to complete the book and succeed. Idea is not story. Being able to state your idea in one sentence is key. We often spend an entire day at our writing workshop getting the four attendees to pin this one sentence down, but that's how important it is!
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The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
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This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
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Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
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Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
Exploiting Artificial Intelligence for Empowering Researchers and Faculty, In...Dr. Vinod Kumar Kanvaria
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Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
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1. As a form of Creative Nonfiction
“Good memoirs are a careful act of
construction.” —William Zinsser
2. Real Life
Reflection
Research
Reading
“Riting”
Adapted from Lee Gutkind, editor of Creative
Non-Fiction magazine
3. Immersion into and with actual events,
locations, people
Scenes (showing) versus telling stories from
real life that draw in the reader
Description from real life of people and places
4. What is the meaning behind the real experience
or story the writer is telling?
Is there a message that extends beyond the
author’s own reaction, a larger meaning?
Reflection means asking yourself questions
about your story, whether it’s a personal
experience or a story outside yourself.
5. The mission of nonfiction, in part, is to inform
and educate.
Even a personal story requires research in
order to provide significant details.
The research connects the personal story to a
larger intellectual context.
6. Even people writing about their own lives
often extend outside themselves
To verify
To add context
For example…
7. Expanding your knowledge and ideas by
DEVOURING the works of other writers.
Not just other creative nonfiction writers, but
other artists and fiction writers and scientists
and musicians and on and on. The more you
know, the more context you have for your own
discovery
8. The rough-draft writing of inspiration and
exercises
The revision writing of cleaning up grammar,
sentence structure, word choice and,
sometimes, the complete structural redrafting
of pieces.
9. In Night of the Gun, David Carr writes:
“Memoir is a very personal form of creation
myth.”
In Tell It Slant, the authors write: “Memory itself
could be called its own bit of creative
nonfiction.”
How do you interpret these statements?
10. Narrative means, in the simplest terms, how
we tell the story, or how we “frame” the story.
Is it chronological? Ordered by the importance
of the events? Circular, coming back to the
beginning of the piece? Are there sections that
each begin with a uniform element?
Narrative construction in writing is how we
make transform memories/ ideas into...art
11. “A metaphor is a way of getting at a truth that
exists beyond the literal.”
Metaphor is a common device or “technique”
in poetry. How might it work in creative
nonfiction, based on our reading this week?
12. “Excavation” by Wendy Ortiz
“The Answer to the Riddle is Me” by David Stuart
MacLean
Voice
Description
Scene
Theme
What other writing elements do you note in these
excerpts that correspond to the sensory chapters in
Tell It Slant that we read: smell, taste, hearing,
touch, sight
13. “I think the worst thing that can happen to a
writer is a clear diagnosis. Diagnoses winnow
away possibility and eliminate any data that
doesn’t correspond to the diagnosis. A good
non-fiction writer allows the play between
experience and diagnosed condition. It’s the
data that doesn’t fit the diagnosis that makes
the writer idiosyncratic.”
—David Stuart MacLean
14. Pick one event from your life that was
meaningfully and that raised questions for
you—that has potential for a short memoir.
Write the event as a scene, make it as detailed as
you can.
You should try to choose a memory that is at least
several years old.
Just plunge in: 20 minutes
15. Revise or continue working on today’s freewriting
exercise for a 2-4 page first draft, due next week
Use one of the exercises from Tell It Slant, pages
12-16 and write something new for a 2-4 page first
draft
Or...write something different based on an idea/
inspiration for a 2-4 page first memoir draft
Four copies due next week for distribution for our
first workshop the following week
Editor's Notes
We could listen to an interview with William Zinsser, well known writing writer, which delves into contemporary memoir. This is a few years old, but it still gives a good history. Listen to Frey stuff, joyce maynard
In the introduction, the authors of Tell It Slant refer to Lee Gutkind, the editor of the magazine Creative Nonfiction, who devised the five Rs of creative nonfiction
David Carr is the media reporter for The New York Times and he wrote a memoir several years ago about his time as a drug addict, but because he was a drug addict then he wanted to actually go back and report on his own life, not just use his own memories.
Uniform element could mean starting each section with a scene or a quote or an idea.
How would you characterize the voice/ tone of this first piece
Who can tell me the difference between a scene and a summary