第四章 Writing Creative Nonfiction:Chapter 4 provides students with the knowledge and practice to write many types and styles of creative nonfiction. They learn what makes creative nonfiction distinctive and the common properties it shares with the other three genres of creative writing. Students learn about different forms, terminology, and techniques to write poems. They gain practice in using these tools to write several of their own creative nonfiction using various styles and methods.4.1Shapes of Creative Nonfiction: Subjects, Styles, Purposes:In this class we will start to learn about creative nonfiction and its genres such as memoir, autobiography, nature, travel, and food writing. We’ll see that specific details and personal stories are powerful tools that make our writing more vivid and interesting. We’ll also learn about writing the meditative essay and the lyrical essay. Finally, we’re going to explore creative nonfiction with the tools of the body, the self, and identity.
4.2Tools of Creative Nonfiction: Documenting Life:In this lecture, we’ll learn some valuable tools in writing creative nonfiction: point of view and doing research. Then we’ll focus on four possible ways to provide narrative structure to our creative nonfiction: chronology, theme, character, and event. Next we’ll learn about the tools of choosing present tense and first person pronoun and perspective, and a new structure to use: the miniature. Finally, we’ll look at interdisciplinary creative nonfiction.
4.3Creating your Own Creative Nonfiction:In this lecture, we are going to create our own creative nonfiction by using photos and keeping a journal. We’ll also try braiding and segmentation in our creative nonfiction. Besides, we’ll learn to describe the world by using the senses and perspective of a child or pretending to be from the planet Mars and have just landed on earth for the first time to give freshness to our writing. Finally, we will explore how technological communication influences the genre of creative nonfiction.
[单选题]In creative nonfiction, _________ can bring readers right into the heart of the action.
the present tense
the future tense
the present perfect tense

the past tense
答案:the present tense
[单选题]What does “the miniature” mean in this lecture?
Something of a much smaller size than normal
A new form of creative writing
The art of painting
A copy on a much reduced scale[单选题]“All writers should pretend they are from the planet Mars and have just landed on earth for the first time”  is put forward by_________.
a Martian writer
Craig Raine
an alien
Ezra Pound[单选题]One trick is to try to describe the world using the senses and perspective of———, filled with innocent wonder at all that life holds.
a woman
an adult
a child
a man[单选题]By what way can we present our own lives in ways that readers will find fascinating?
 Being yourself
Creative nonfiction
Miniature writing
The segmented essay[单选题]What do we learn in all vast variety of creative nonfiction?
Meanings of being human
Experience of being yourself
Fascinating lives of other human being
A better understanding of our own lives [单选题]What does the French verb “essayer” exactly  mean?
Not to give something a try
To give something a try
To be a writer
To write an essay [单选题]What are some types of creative nonfiction intended to convey?
Some exact figures of certain experiments
Some imaginary touching stories
Specific types of helpful advice or other informative content
The author’s immature personal feelings[单选题]Which one is not favoured in writing meditative essay?
What you are wondering about the future
Generalized contents and clichés
Life’s challenges
What you have learned through experience[单选题]Advice, manuals, instructions, memoirs, reflections, and personal interpretations of history all belong to the genre of_________
drama
Poetry
fiction
creative nonfiction

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