Crafting Truth
Crafting Truth helps students learn creative nonfiction by doing. Through imaginative exercises, close readings, brief excerpts, experimental forms, and seven longer narratives, it explores research, reflection, scene, motive, truth-telling, character, tension, dialogue, and point of view.
About This Book
Crafting Truth introduces the form and theory of creative nonfiction while emphasizing active learning through writing exercises.
Brief excerpts from varied published works help students examine how writers handle elements such as scene, dialogue, character, tension, and point of view.
The book encourages close reading by focusing on carefully selected portions of larger works, allowing students to study more material in shorter sessions.
Alongside canonical creative nonfiction, it includes experimental forms such as the radio essay and fictional memoir.
A concluding anthology presents seven longer narratives, giving students opportunities to apply the craft concepts explored throughout the book.
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