Creative Nonfiction (Course Guide / Lisa Heise)

Section 3: Creative Nonfiction
Chapter One - Creative Nonfiction and the Essay
Chapter Two - Truth and Memory, Truth in Memory
Chapter Three - Research and History
Chapter Four - Writing Environments
Chapter Five - Notes on Style
Chapter Six - Figurative Language
Chapter Seven - Imagery and the Senses
Chapter Eight - Writing the Body
Chapter Nine - Forms

Teaching Autoethnography is dedicated to the practice of immersive ethnographic and autoethnographic writing that encourages authors to participate in the communities about which they write. This book draws not only on critical qualitative inquiry methods such as interview and observation, but also on theories and sensibilities from creative writing and performance studies, which encourage self-reflection and narrative composition.

The main elements of creative nonfiction are setting, descriptive imagery, figurative language, plot, and character. The overarching element or requirement that distinguishes creative nonfiction from any other genre of writing is that while other literary genres can spring from the imagination, creative nonfiction is, by definition, true. | Writing and Critical Thinking Through Literature (Ringo and Kashyap) | OER/LibreTexts

When writing a personal narrative, setting the scene is one of the most important parts of the essay. This worksheet is designed to help you more deeply describe your scene from the previous exercise using all six senses. | Writing and Critical Thinking Through Literature (Ringo and Kashyap) | OER/LibreTexts

Chapter 2: Creative Nonfiction
Chapter 3: Creative Nonfiction Readings
| by Heather Ringo & Athena Kashyap City College of San Francisco via ASCCC Open Educational Resources Initiative | OER/LibreTexts