Overview
Description
Analysis of the essay and non-fictional prose works.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring
Terms
spring
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- explain and discuss issues in literary nonfiction, such as the writer’s use of memory truth, and fact.
- identify and explain the ways nonfiction writers manipulate style and tone to achieve their purpose.
- develop critical reading and interpreting strategies for critiquing literary nonfiction.
- list and discuss the nonfiction writer’s selection of topics and use of literary techniques.
- identify and explain the mechanics and strategies a nonfiction writer employs in creating a voice and style.
- demonstrate, through a research essay and presentation, awareness of recent research pertaining to the use of truth and fact in literary nonfiction.