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Creative Nonfiction Approach and Point of View

This document discusses the concepts of approach and point of view in writing. It differentiates between objective and subjective approaches, with the objective using facts and figures and the subjective using personal experiences and emotions. Point of view refers to the perspective or vantage point from which a story is told. The document provides examples of how to identify the approach and point of view in sample texts. It also includes writing prompts for learners to practice using different approaches and points of view in their own writing.

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Creative Nonfiction Approach and Point of View

This document discusses the concepts of approach and point of view in writing. It differentiates between objective and subjective approaches, with the objective using facts and figures and the subjective using personal experiences and emotions. Point of view refers to the perspective or vantage point from which a story is told. The document provides examples of how to identify the approach and point of view in sample texts. It also includes writing prompts for learners to practice using different approaches and points of view in their own writing.

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Approach

and
Point of View
Objectives:
▫ Differentiate approach from
point of view;
▫ Discriminate the different
types of points of view through
sample vignettes; and
▫ Write narrative vignettes based
on real life experiences using
various points of view.

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▫ Narration
▫ Description
Review ▫ Exposition
Basic modes of writing: ▫ Argumentation

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Exploratory Activity:
Respond, personally and creatively, on the
given situation below in five-ten sentences.
Write your answers in a one half sheet of
paper.
▫ Two of your classmates, a boy and a girl, are
arguing about a school project. The three of
you are members of a group that needs to
submit the project on time. They blame each
other for the late submission and they
enumerate the mistakes each one has done.
Your teacher calls you and wants to know
what happened and why the two are
quarelling. How would you recount the
story?
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What approach did you use to
recount the story?

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What is “Approach?”
▫ This has to do with how a writer handles his
subject.
▫ This is determined by the writer’s circumstances.

▪ Objective Approach: use of number,


statistics, and figures; includes what is/are
observed using the eyes.

▪ Subjective Approach: use of emotions and


feelings; includes personal
accounts/experiences of the writer
(Hidalgo 2005)
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Objective vs.
Subjective Approach
Situation: Election
Objective Approach: time when the precincts
opened, time of the arrival of voters, how
peaceful or not the situation is, actual
counting process, and winners.

Subjective Approach: interaction and


conversations with people who voted for the
same candidate, direct and indirect effects of
the winner’s platform in a place.
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Situations:
1. Marawi Siege
2. University Ignatiana Celebration
2018 Community Outreach/ at
Calabanga, Camarines Sur
3. Peñafrancia Fiesta 2018-Traslacion
4. University Day 2018
5. Australia vs. Philippines World Cup
Baskteball
Is the sample article
objective or subjective?
A reporter assigned to cover a medical
convention and someone describing his/her
own ailment
(Hidalgo 2005)

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Let us read the example:

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Let us read the example:

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“ Addendum
▫ Approach may also refer to angle or
handle.
▪ Example:
▪ If an editor asks you: How are
you going to approach your
proposed essays n fiestas?
▪ I am going to tie it up with
the old campaign to abolish
fiestas together. (your take
on the subject)

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Someone attending a concert

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Someone attending a concert

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Point of View
▫ Refers to the narrator of the
story
▫ Vantage point from where
readers observe the events of
the story
▫ Writer’s special angle of
vision, the one whose
perspective is told.

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A good piece of creative nonfiction has a personal voice, a clearly defined
point of view, which will reveal itself in the tone, and be presented through
scene, summary and description, as it is in fiction. All strategies are
designed to reach out to the readers and draw them in-again, as in fiction-
without losing track of the facts (Hidalgo 2005)
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Writing Prompt. Tell me what you think
By Pair. Interview any of the following: a senior high
school/college student, a teacher, an administrator, an
administrative support about any (just choose one) of the
given topics. You may use any point of view and
approach.
1. TRAIN (Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion)
2. House Bill Number 6452 or the “Comprehensive
Mental Health Act” 
3. LGBTQIA+ (Tolerance and/or Acceptance?)
4. Divorce Bill
5. Anti-Tambay Drive\
Write an expository essay about the responses in 8-15
sentences. (Include the name and age of the interviewee.)
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Writing Prompt. Tell me what you think
By Pair. Interview any of the following: a senior high
school/college student, a teacher, an administrator, an
administrative support about any (just choose one) of the
given topics. You may use any point of view and
approach.
1. TRAIN (Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion)
2. House Bill Number 6452 or the “Comprehensive
Mental Health Act” 
3. LGBTQIA+ (Tolerance and/or Acceptance?)
4. Divorce Bill
5. Anti-Tambay Drive\
Write an expository essay about the responses in 8-15
sentences. (Include the name and age of the interviewee.)
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