http://www.toddseal.com/rodin/2006/10/is-nonfiction-writing-the-answer/ Challenge The Status Quo Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:39:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.toddseal.com/rodin/2006/10/is-nonfiction-writing-the-answer/comment-page-1/#comment-7867 Todd Thu, 04 Jan 2007 22:06:56 +0000 http://www.toddseal.com/rodin/2006/10/is-nonfiction-writing-the-answer/#comment-7867 Simon Winchester and Stephen Jay Gould employ plenty of creativity to tell their tales. Nonfiction does not mean that it's free of creativity. In fact, the suggestion I'm reading in articles like the one I point out in this entry is that students don't have the ability to put together a narrative that makes use of all the facts they've gathered, that the creative aspect of writing a nonfiction piece is what they lack the most. I wonder if learning how to write a fictional narrative imparts skills that students can then take into writing a nonfiction piece. Do those narrative techniques translate? Simon Winchester and Stephen Jay Gould employ plenty of creativity to tell their tales. Nonfiction does not mean that it’s free of creativity. In fact, the suggestion I’m reading in articles like the one I point out in this entry is that students don’t have the ability to put together a narrative that makes use of all the facts they’ve gathered, that the creative aspect of writing a nonfiction piece is what they lack the most. I wonder if learning how to write a fictional narrative imparts skills that students can then take into writing a nonfiction piece. Do those narrative techniques translate?

]]> http://www.toddseal.com/rodin/2006/10/is-nonfiction-writing-the-answer/comment-page-1/#comment-7858 JM Thu, 04 Jan 2007 21:48:39 +0000 http://www.toddseal.com/rodin/2006/10/is-nonfiction-writing-the-answer/#comment-7858 Well, I say that while everyone must learn how to write an exciting true story, the most important type of writing is fiction, because everyone knows that the imagination is more important to a writer than a set of learned facts. Although facts are important, without imagination, you can't do anything with them. Well, I say that while everyone must learn how to write an exciting true story, the most important type of writing is fiction, because everyone knows that the imagination is more important to a writer than a set of learned facts. Although facts are important, without imagination, you can’t do anything with them.

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