Truth of the Matter, The: Art and Craft in Creative Nonfiction
Book Details
Author(s)
Moore, Dinty
Publisher
PEARSON EDUCATION
ISBN / ASIN
0321277619
ISBN-13
9780321277619
Availability
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Category
Language Arts & Disciplines
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
Description
- Step-by-step approach illustrates for students how detail, description, and voice interweave to create a full essay.
- Essays from contemporary nonfiction writers such as Henry Louis Gates, Norma Elia Cantú, Pico Iyer, Joan Didion, and others are integrated into the chapters to illustrate concepts.
- Questions of truth and creativity are addressed directly, showing where fiction and nonfiction diverge, and helping students enter the discussion around memory and objectivity.
- Part IV, "The Anthology," exposes students to various approaches to and styles of the creative nonfiction form, including brief essays and essays on the craft.
- "Writing Prompts" offer realistic and attainable writing goals, inspiring confidence in beginning writers, and provide a ready storehouse of raw material for future essays.
- Examples of the ‘sudden’ nonfiction essay (under 750 words) allow students to experience a wide variety of styles and approaches. Instructors are given the option to assign brief essays or use them only as illustrations of the building blocks of nonfiction writing.
- A strong focus on revision, interwoven throughout the text, provides a variety of tactics and approaches and presents revision as an integral step in the writing process.
