The Primary Purpose of Technical Nonfiction is to

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Nonfiction
(as well spelled
non-fiction) is any document or media content that attempts, in good faith, to provide accurate information regarding a existent-world topic.^[1]
Nonfictional content may be presented either objectively or subjectively. Nonfiction is 1 of the central divisions of narrative writing (specifically, prose)^[2]
— in contrast to fiction, largely populated by imaginary characters and events, though sometimes ambiguous regarding its basis in reality.^[1]
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While specific claims in a nonfiction piece of work may testify inaccurate, the typical author genuinely aims to be truthful at the time of their composition, offer accounts of historical or empirical fact. Systematic reporting of the behavior of others in a nonfiction format is not necessarily an endorsement of the veracity of those beliefs, but rather an do in representing the topic. Works of nonfiction are non limited to written text, since statements expressed in audio or video may purport to present a factual business relationship of a subject.

Distinctions

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The numerous literary and creative devices used inside fiction are more often than not thought inappropriate for use in nonfiction. They are still present especially in older works but they are oftentimes muted so as not to overshadow the information within the work. Simplicity, clarity and directness are some of the most of import considerations when producing nonfiction. Audience is important in any artistic or descriptive endeavor, but it is peradventure most important in nonfiction. In fiction, the writer believes that readers volition make an effort to follow and interpret an indirectly or abstractly presented progression of theme, whereas the production of nonfiction has more than to practice with the direct provision of information. Understanding of the potential readers’ use for the work and their existing knowledge of a subject are both cardinal for effective nonfiction. Despite the claim to truth of nonfiction, information technology is oftentimes necessary to persuade the reader to concord with the ideas and so a counterbalanced, coherent and informed argument is vital. However, the boundaries betwixt fiction and nonfiction are continually blurred and argued upon, specially in the field of biography;^[4]
every bit Virginia Woolf said: “if we think of truth as something of granite-like solidity and of personality every bit something of rainbow-like intangibility and reflect that the aim of biography is to weld these ii into ane seamless whole, we shall admit that the problem is a stiff 1 and that we need not wonder if biographers, for the most part failed to solve it.”^[5]

Semi-fiction is fiction implementing a groovy deal of nonfiction,^[six]
eastward.g., a fictional description based on a truthful story.

Major types

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Mutual literary examples of nonfiction include expository, argumentative, functional, and opinion pieces; essays on art or literature; biographies; memoirs; journalism; and historical, scientific, technical, or economic writings (including electronic ones).^[7]

Journals, photographs, textbooks, travel books, blueprints, and diagrams are too often considered nonfictional.^{[
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Including data that the author knows to be untrue within any of these works is ordinarily regarded equally dishonest. Other works can legitimately be either fiction or nonfiction, such as journals of self-expression, letters, mag articles, and other expressions of imagination. Though such works are more often than not either ane or the other, a blend of both is too possible. Some fiction may include nonfictional elements. Some nonfiction may include elements of unverified supposition, deduction, or imagination for the purpose of smoothing out a narrative, just the inclusion of open falsehoods would discredit it as a piece of work of nonfiction. The publishing and the bookselling businesses sometimes use the phrase “literary nonfiction” to distinguish works with a more literary or intellectual bent, as opposed to the bulk of nonfiction subjects.^[8]

Specific types

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See also

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• Documentary practice
• List of writing genres

References

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External links

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• What is Artistic Nonfiction? Archived 2012-10-19 at the Wayback Machine