ENGL 3502: 28/07/05
Fictional vs Factional Texts
Similarities:
-> each text is an e.g. of genres -> they are not random
The use of high and low language for readership -> variations
continuim of formality; invisible/visible author
+> direct
+> vernacular
+> complexity of language
....all these things imply a reader/audience.
similar processes of creation.
Differences:
largely in readership.
huge increased readership for factional texts as compared to fictional.
fact cannot be changed - it is reported.
Principles of writing investigative journalism:
*Awareness... notice and remember details -> shapes, colours, phrases, positions...etc
*Empathy... aware of life from 'other' perspective.
*Ego... should be promptly eliminated - effacing oneself.
*Purpose... writing with clear intention/purpose rids purple and superfluous passages.
Learn To...
notice:
1. treat the everyday as foreign and bizarre
2. stir things up ~> force yourself out of your habitual mode.
~> be inquisitive - ask questions about everything
+ take.record reality - how.what.when.why.
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