This document discusses reading and readers through nonfiction works and multimedia. It begins by reflecting on what reading means to individuals and how people develop different reading habits and traits over their lifetime. It notes there are many different types of readers. The document then discusses nonfiction works, describing their narrative context, subjects, types, and appeals. It provides a four-part method for considering nonfiction, analyzing narrative context, subject, type, and appeal. The document concludes by suggesting nonfiction and multimedia can broaden readers' perspectives and experiences.

1. Reading, And Reading Readers Through Nonfiction and Multimedia

2. Ourselves As Readers

3. Space to deeply reflect on what reading can and does mean in our lives.
Reminds us that we have a history with books.
Reminds us that we have a process of selection and methods of discovery built through a lifetime
of reading.
Allows us the pleasure and space to remember books we love.
Allows to remember the sheer wonderful pleasure of the right book at the right time.

6. We all exist as different kinds of readers and the range of different kinds of
readers is wide.
We already know at least one reader, ourselves, very well. There is room to build
upon that knowledge and bridge out to other readers.

7. Reader Traits
Confidence
Trusts own choices
Reads without care
Facility
Can find books on own
Knows appeal preferences
Is part of book culture
Habits
Reads widely
Reads often
Re-reads
Listens to audiobooks
Pays no attention to
PR/crowd
Perception
Thinks of self as a reader
Desires
Wants reading to comfort,
entertain, support, to offer
ease
Hesitant about what is “good”
Reads with self-judgement
Is stymied on what/how to choose
Has no idea why a book works or not
Is not part of book culture
Reads narrowly
Reads rarely
Never re-reads
Does not listen to audiobooks
Is a “bandwagon” reader
Does not think of self as a reader
Wants reading to challenge

8. We are fundamentally different as readers

9. Three times different as readers

10. Broaden Where The Reader Gets To Stand:
Nonfiction

11. Nonfiction

12. Considering Nonfiction
Narrative Context
Subject
Type
Appeal
A 4-Part Method

13. Narrative Context
Narrative Nonfiction and Task-based Nonfiction

14. Narrative Nonfiction

15. Task-Based Nonfiction

16. The Reader Decides

17. Major Nonfiction Subjects
Biography
Cookbooks (and Food)
Crafts
Health
History
Historical Biography
Home and Garden
Humor
Memoir
Nature Writing
Politics/Social Science/Economics
Religion/Spirituality
Science/Math/Climate
Sports
Travel
True Adventure
True Crime
War

18. Type
Reporting, Memoir, Biography, Exposé, Investigations,
Essay, Letters, Explanations, Microhistory, Narrative
Cookbooks, Self-Help, (more)

19. Appeal
Story line
What the work is about, its approach to that subject, its narrative drive.
Pacing
Addresses the speed of the story arc: how quickly it unfolds and how rapidly it feels to read.
Characterization
The treatment of the figures central to the work. Can include the author in some types.
Learning and Experiencing
The degree to which the work teaches or invites the reader to experience an event/place/time.
Setting
The landscape in which the work is set.
Tone
How the work feels to read.
Language
The writing style of the work.
Frame
The details and layers of added information that construct the work.

20. Storyline:
How narrative is the storyline?
What is the intent of the author?

21. Pacing:
Has a great deal to do with the work’s narrative nature.
Further dependent on how much the reader already knows and brings to the subject.

22. Characterization:
Read for the real-life characters on the page.
Some types demand successful connection to the character/author.

23. Learning and Experiencing:
The degree to which a reader reads the work for the educational opportunity it offers.
The extent the work lets readers experience an event or life situation based on what they
are told is the truth.

24. Setting, Tone, Frame and Language

25. The Four-Part Construction
Narrative Context
Subject
Type
Appeal

26. Narrative Context: Strongly narrative
Subject: Climate change, Plant and animal extinction, Futurology, Natural History,
Endangered Species
Type: Reporting, explanation, history
Appeal:
Story line: Wide-net history of extinction. Tells a larger, and gripping, story with
encounters and scenes.
Pacing: Quick, engaging, well-developed. End oriented and arranged to pull the
reader in and through.
Characterization: Kolbert is a smart and engaging companion. Her
characterizations of scientists and researchers are also engaging.
Learning and Experiencing: Key appeal. Fact-based, sharp, and well-argued.
Readers learn and understand.
Setting: Wide-ranging and well-described. Tone: Involving, grim, authoritative.
Language: Accessible, clear. Frame: Another key appeal. Detailed, well-
described.

28. Broaden Where The Reader Gets To Stand:
Media As Source of Suggestion and Suggestion Itself

37. Put the entire collection in play
Meet the reader where she is
Relax and remember you are a unique reader spending time with
another unique reader who just wants to spend time with you

38. Questions?
Conversation ….
Contact: nwyatt@mediasourceinc.com

39. Image Credits
Winslow Homer, The new novel : owned by Springfield Museums: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1877-winslow-homer-the-new-novel.jpg
Vittorio Matteo Corcos, Sogni = Dreams : owned by Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vittorio_Matteo_Corcos_-
_Dreams_-_1896.jpg
Adolphe Alexandre Lesrel, Captivated : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lesrel_Adolphe_Alexandre_captivated.jpg
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Young Girl Reading: owned by the National Gallery of Art:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fragonard,_The_Reader.jpg
spider-man reading: https://unsplash.com/photos/o4c2zoVhjSw: Road Trip with Raj @roadtripwithraj
ripped jeans: https://unsplash.com/photos/-kl_XvEOqMU: Fabiola Peñalba @fabspotato
woman in hat on sofa: https://unsplash.com/photos/hPKTYwJ4FUo: Seven Shooter @sevenshooterimage
Guy with coffee: https://unsplash.com/photos/nKEARsgmrqc: Chris Benson @lordmaui
Girl at window: https://unsplash.com/photos/0qmXPnZKeLU: Jerry Wang @jerry_318
Woman backlit at window: https://unsplash.com/photos/IcUbKfIuQ70: Thought Catalog @thoughtcatalog
Man reading at lake: https://unsplash.com/photos/T3uKisfmABY: Tamarcus Brown @tamarcusbrown
Man reading in park: https://unsplash.com/photos/JH84iDJ3f1I: Alex Blăjan @alexb
Woman reading on sofa: https://unsplash.com/photos/hIbdbaQWJ1s: Sincerely Media @sincerelymedia
Man reading against stack of books: https://unsplash.com/photos/HAwA1N2gjo8: Jilbert Ebrahimi @jilburr
Woman reading on red sofa: https://unsplash.com/photos/0vK5u6_0Z7E: AllGo - An App For Plus Size People @canweallgo
Man in blue shirt reading: https://unsplash.com/photos/VfenC4twHA4: Abdulmajid Sanusi @majidone
Woman reading in chair: https://unsplash.com/photos/blUtZ6lK5OE: Thought Catalog @thoughtcatalog
Aerial shot of Scottish highlands: https://unsplash.com/photos/uSJ8Xjj3ew4:Jamie MacPherson: https://www.instagram.com/jamie__macpherson
(Jacket covers from Amazon, Publishers, and Edelweiss+; film posters from IMDB. Screenshots from YouTube/Station site)