BIOGRAPHY, AUTOBIOGRAPHY & LITERARY JOURNALISM

Biography, autobiography, & literary journalism

1. BIOGRAPHY

- Abiography is about somebody else’s life.

   - It is about a real person but is not written by the person. It is written in the third person.

•describes key facts about a person.

 such as, where, when and how they live (or have lived if the person is no longer alive)/

•Provides details that show events in a person’s life.

•A biography will talk about how a person feels about different things.

2. Autobiography

AAn autobiography is written in the first person because it contains facts about the author’s own experiences.

¢An autobiography recounts key incidents/events in the author’s life.

¢An autobiography describes influences upon the author.

¢describes interactions between the writer and significant people in his or her life.

3. LITERARY JOURNALISM

AA form of nonfiction that combines factual reporting with some of the narrative techniques and stylistic strategies traditionally associated with fiction.

¡Aka “narrative journalism”.

John mcphee¡One of the pioneers of CNF.

¡His journalistic style of writing is coupled with literary elements – narrative structure, characterization, scene setting, internal POV, tension, symbolism, etc.

Thomas B. Connery

¡Literary Journalism is 'nonfiction printed prose whose verifiable content is shaped and transformed into a story or sketch by use of narrative and rhetorical techniques generally associated with fiction.'

characteristics

       1.Immersion reporting2.Details of Environment (SETTING)3.Dramatic Scenes
4.Dialogue5.Character development6.“Expressive” (Figures of Speech) with Symbolism7.Author’s Voice or Opinion
8.Third Person POV9.Careful & Precise Word Selection

Rules

¡Mark Kramer used the term 'breakable rules':

1. Literary journalists immerse themselves in subjects' worlds.

2. Literary journalists work out implicit covenants about accuracy and candor.

3. Literary journalists write mostly about routine events.

4. Literary journalists develop meaning by building upon the readers' sequential reactions.

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INDIVIDUAL PETA: CNF BOOKLET

1. AUTOBIOGRAPHY COMPOSITION

2. LITERARY JOURNALISM COMPOSITION 

  

 (RECENT REAL ACTIVITY/PROGRAM - IN SCHOOL, BARANGAY, COMMUNITY,    

   MUNICIPALITY OR PROVINCE)