Literary nonfiction
Subtitle: learning by example
By: edited by Patsy Sims.
Contributors: Sims, Patsy.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
Subjects: College readers.; Prose literature.; English language -- Rhetoric -- Problems, exercises, etc.; Report writing -- Problems, exercises, etc.
Genres: Problems, exercises, etc.
Description: Examines the principles and techniques of literary nonfiction through analysis of essays by fifteen accomplished writers, with examples of memoir, literary journalism, medical reporting, and travel writing by James Conaway, Joan Didion, Tracy Kidder, John McPhee, and others.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.