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Isabel Owen edited the blog post Braiding Identity and “A Short Essay on Being” in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction: 9 years, 4 months ago

According to the Purdue Online Writing Lab, the braided essay is “broken into sections using medial white space, lines of white space on a page where there are no words (much like stanzas in poetry), and each time there is a section break, the writer moves from one ‘thread’ to another.”

I find this definition limiting, especially due to the fac…[Read more]
Simone Louie wrote a new blog post Expressing a Culture in the Context of Another Culture in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction: 9 years, 4 months ago

(Similar to Chloe, I had trouble finding information about the cultural essay – all there seems to be is a short blurb on personal cultural criticism that Chloe used in her blog post already. But I think she did a […]
Chloe Forsell wrote a new blog post The Cultural Essay: What is “culture” anyway? in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction: 9 years, 4 months ago

This is a question I have been asking myself a lot lately.

This semester, I’ve taken on several projects which have necessitated a lot of self exploration. Through this exploration, I’ve been forced to come […]
Rachel Britton wrote a new blog post Biomythography: Fact and Fiction as Identity in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction: 9 years, 5 months ago

When you search “Biomythography” on internet search engines, the first result that comes up will say it is a term coined by Audre Lorde to describe her book Zami. There isn’t much variance in the subsequent resul […]
Francesca Barlowe edited the blog post The Relevance of Lyric Journalism in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction: 9 years, 5 months ago

The difference between lyric journalism and journalism is a component that allows for lyric journalism to be contemplative about the “bigger picture” and come to some kind of conclusion about the components of life. For example, it’s the difference between saying that the Romanticism Movement was “was an artistic, literary, musical and…[Read more]
Maddie Wayland wrote a new blog post “In the Defense of Facts” and Lyric Journalism in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction: 9 years, 5 months ago

The term “lyric journalism” is a rather fresh term in the world of creative non-fiction, and like other subgenres, carries with it controversy regarding what comprises “fact” and “fiction.” Creator of the term, P […]
Emily Warnken wrote a new blog post Expression VS Exploitation: Mommie Dearest and Its Impact in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction: 9 years, 6 months ago

Christina Crawford, adopted daughter of the late Academy Award-winning actress Joan Crawford, published a memoir about her experience growing up with a woman she portrayed to be emotionally and physically abusive. […]
Nicole Pero wrote a new blog post Memoir As Truth-Telling: Orange is the New Black in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction: 9 years, 6 months ago

We’re all aware of the popular Netflix drama, Orange is the New Black, but how many people were interested in the real memoir by Piper Kerman, which the series is based on? If you look at the book’s sales af […]
Casey Vincelette wrote a new blog post Content and Form are Soulmates in the Hermit Crab Essay in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction: 9 years, 6 months ago

“In her essay ‘The Pain Scale,’ Eula Biss uses the form of the pain scale—which attempts to measure one’s pain on a scale of 0 to 10—as a way to structure a highly complex piece that explores not only the na […]
Emily Warnken wrote a new blog post Reflecting on the Birth of New Journalism in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction: 9 years, 6 months ago

“The standard non-fiction writer’s voice was like the standard announcer’s voice… a drag, a droning…”

“There was no ‘movement.’ There were no manifestos, clubs, salons, cliques; not even a saloon where the […]