WEEK-2-CN-4Q.pptx creative non fiction by my teacher in g11

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1. THE ESSAYS WEEK 2 | CREATIVE NONFICTION | FOURTH QUARTER

2. Named after a French word meaning to try or to attempt, the essay is an attempt at understanding an aspect of the world through a life experience of the writer. When you are writing an essay, you are trying to figure out, shaping your inner thoughts into words. As an essayist, you put yourself through a trial of trying to think by yourself, and coming up with personal truth about life. The essay is the outcome of your attempt to understand something .

3. Central to the essay is the “I” whose personal experience and understanding of it seeks to convey a truth beyond the personal. The “I” shapes the text and invites the readers to join the essayist in the act of making sense of the world. The heart of essay lies in “what I think.” The essay is a written expression of that which you understand. This understanding may come in the form of a personal essay, expository essay, narrative essay, or argumentative/persuasive essay.

4. 1. THE PERSONAL ESSAY (Being intimate with the readers) The personal essay confides, confesses, and opens up the writer’s joys, sorrows, frustration, or anger. The readers enter the mood, atmosphere, or the nature of the writer’s privacy. Though the personal essay is written informally, the essayist must write honestly and with great deal of reliability.

5. Tips in making a personal essay: Your idea should be universal- Although a personal essay reflects what you think and feel, your message should be universal. Your writing should reveal a large meaning, a universal theme that really goes beyond the surface. The essay should be about you and at the same time, it should be more than you. Awaken the voice within- T he voice is you. You are the writer. You have the perspective, share it to your readers. Let the readers see through your eyes using your own literary technique. The syntax, the language used, and your writing style will reveal to the reader the voice inside of you .

6. Tips in making a personal essay: Focus in and focus out- Imagine you are a film-maker holding a camera, you have to focus in specific details and focus out supporting ideas so that you can guide the readers on what is important in your essay. The way you choose specific details about moments, feelings and ideas, and using them to convey your theme and purpose is one skill that you have to master. Be specific- Do not write about general ideas, just focus on one specific idea. Write about a particular moment, person, place, time, or object and its significance to you. Write about only one thing, its meaning to you, and the details that changed or shaped how you perceive it. Don’t run around the bush- Cut the chase, do not explain too much nor leave your readers hanging in the moment. Go straight to the point and build your writing around it by giving the right amount of details.

7. 2. THE EXPOSITORY ESSAY ( INFORMING OR EXPLAINING TO THE READERS ) What makes our life an unlimited source of writing inspiration is the equally unlimited ways of knowing about it. Essayist, though seemingly informed and knowledgeable in their writings, do not sit to write because they already know. For if they did, why write at all? The same goes for the readers; they read about that which they do not know yet. The expository essay thrives in that which is unknown – to both writers and readers .

8. 2. THE EXPOSITORY ESSAY ( INFORMING OR EXPLAINING TO THE READERS ) The expository essay attempts to describe or narrate for the purpose of explaining or informing. As its main goal is to educate the readers, the expository essay necessarily requires factual information. Explanations need facts, which provide readers with deeper analysis of a particular topic. Facts need a narrative, a storytelling way of explaining, arranged in a logical manner so that readers easily follow.

9. 3. THE NARRATIVE AND DESCRIPTIVE ESSAY ( KNOWING BY STORYTELLING) To narrate is to tell a story. But storytelling is just one side of narrative. The ancient Sanskrit word gna , which means “know,” became the Latin words for knowing ( gnarus ) and telling ( narro ) . Narrative, therefore, is both knowing and telling. We absorb knowledge and express knowledge through a narrative, a story. This is because a story always stimulates us to think. To ask what happened is to wish for a narrative .

10. 3. THE NARRATIVE AND DESCRIPTIVE ESSAY ( KNOWING BY STORYTELLING) You write an essay in two ways depending on your purpose: narrative or descriptive. Use narrative if you want to tell the sequence of events. If the story happens in a particular place, around a particular person, involving a particular object, you may opt for a descriptive essay to portray that place, person, or thing. Though they have similar meaning, narrative and descriptive essays have a different purpose in recounting a story . To narrate is to tell, to describe is to show .

11. 4. THE ARGUMENTATIVE/PERSUASIVE ESSAY ( To change the reader’s mind ) Arguments appeal to our logic and reasoning . But our minds do not function by reason alone. Our reasoning ability is also influenced by our beliefs, values, and feelings. The persuasive essay appeals to our beliefs, values, and feelings. These are part of our social experience on which we base our interpretation of facts and our decisions.

12. 4. THE ARGUMENTATIVE/PERSUASIVE ESSAY ( To change the reader’s mind ) Both the argumentative and persuasive essay try to win readers’ minds by making them accept what the writer wants them to think about or act upon – in other words, convincing them. Once you are convinced, you’d been ‘conquered’ (convince is from Latin con+vincere , which means ‘to overcome in argument.’ The prefix vincere menas to ‘conquer’). Persuasion, on the other hand, wins you over by talking ( persuadere is the Latin for persuasion which means to ‘bring over by talking ’)

13. 4. THE ARGUMENTATIVE/PERSUASIVE ESSAY ( To change the reader’s mind ) The argumentative or persuasive essayist aims at your mind by making a claim – the thesis or proposition upon which the writer will try to prove a point and where readers can reasonably agree or make a counterpoint. In practice, the distinction between the argumentative and persuasive essay disappears because our mind works along reason and values and feelings.

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