{"id":2837,"date":"2019-04-08T00:02:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T21:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/?p=2837"},"modified":"2019-04-08T10:56:26","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T07:56:26","slug":"the-word-of-the-week-is-nonfiction-writers-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/the-word-of-the-week-is-nonfiction-writers-book\/","title":{"rendered":"The word of the week is <i>Nonfiction Writer\u2019s Book<\/i>."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just read the newly published\u00a0<em>Nonfiction Writer\u2019s Book<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0<em>Tiina Raevaara<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Urpu Strellman<\/em>. Over the years, I have gone through several articles and books<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>on this subject for work and for\u00a0my own interest. So<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>I was eager to see what new ideas<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>the writers would offer me.<\/p>\n<p>I was delighted to find that they apply<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>the concept of argument. It seems like a useful tool for a variety of nonfiction texts. The argument is the author&#8217;s main claim, something the reader may agree or disagree with. The claim acts as a main thread of the text and combines<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>various facts into a whole.<\/p>\n<p>The concept of scene is another useful tool I noted. Scene is familiar from fiction; it is linked to narrative nonfiction. Things are not just described, but also displayed by action and dialogue. An incident can encapsulate some essential features of the subject, using the techniques of fiction but the contents of nonfiction.<\/p>\n<p>Headings are such a worn-out topic that I didn&#8217;t expect much. However, I was interested in the way they were handled: the authors compared the contents of a dissertation and of a book written on the same subject. The titles and headings in the nonfiction\u00a0\u00a0contained more interpretation and atmosphere than those in the dissertation. The writers also classified headings into different types and gave examples of each.\u00a0<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The strengths of the\u00a0<em>Nonfiction Writer\u2019s Book<\/em>, in my opinion, are its rich examples and the authors\u2019 wide knowledge of the genre. Experienced readers generally benefit more from analyzed examples than from direct instructions. Do you agree?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just read the newly published\u00a0Nonfiction Writer\u2019s Book\u00a0by\u00a0Tiina Raevaara\u00a0and\u00a0Urpu Strellman. Over the years, I have gone through several articles and books\u00a0on this subject for work and for\u00a0my own interest. So\u00a0I was eager to see what new ideas\u00a0the writers would offer me. I was delighted to find that they apply\u00a0the concept of argument. It seems like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2837","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-english-en","7":"category-wordoftheweek-en","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2837"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2842,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837\/revisions\/2842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}