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Fact or Fiction?
The general topic of "writing" covers a lot of ground besides the basic
paragraph or essay. Here is a short, and far from complete, list of
different genres of writing, each with its own rules and conventions. Read
examples of each to learn what they are, then pick one to try.
- Autobiography, memoirs (personal experience)
- Diary, journal
- Blog, home page
- Biographies, profiles
- Interviews
- Oral history (living history)
- Color writing (descriptions of a place)
- Correspondence, email (friendly letters, love
letters, congratulatory letters, apologies, business letters, complaints,
applications, inquiries....)
- Editorials, opinion pieces, letters to the
editor
- Essays
- Instructions, how-to articles
- Feature articles (anything from lifestyle to
politics)
- News reports, current events, sporting events,
cultural events
- Reviews of movies, concerts, books, CDs,
plays, TV shows, magazines, games....
- Research reports
- Poetry
- Songs
- Scripts (skits, plays, TV shows, commercials,
documentaries, movies....)
- Parodies
- Short stories, novels (tall tale, science
fiction, fantasy, historical, romance, fairy tale, contemporary realism,
myth, mystery....)
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