Module Assessment: Genre Study: Nonfiction

consists of true accounts of historical eras and events

• Journalism

• Historical Nonfiction

This subset of nonfiction focuses on the life story of a particular subject

• Biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs

• Philosophy and insight

and they recount an author’s specific experience traveling somewhere

• Self-help and instruction

• Travel guides and travelogues

are designed to instruct readers on a particular topic

• Travel guides and travelogues

• Academic Texts

This genre runs the gamut from traditional philosophy (Plato, Aristotle, Descartes) to scientific theories (Newton, Watson & Crick) to analysis of scientific or cultural phenomena

• Philosophy and insight

• Biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs

is most regularly consumed in the form of newspapers and magazines, along with monthly journals, TV news reports, and more

• Academic Text

• Journalism

are some of the best-selling books in the world of nonfiction. Many of these books concern business success, buoying confidence, staying organized, relationship advice, dieting, and financial management.

• Self-help and instruction

• Historical nonfiction

self-help subgenre, but more focused on specific skills is the subgenre of guides and how-to manuals

• Humor and commentary.

• Guides and how-to manuals.

These subgenres are forms of creative nonfiction, where analysis and reflection on real-world events are distilled through the prism of an author’s point of view

• Guides and how-to manuals

• Humor and commentary