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What does the term authors point of view mean when reading nonfiction?
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∙ 9y ago
The authors' point of view means what he/she is seeing, hearing or thinking at the time. An opinion, attitude, or judgment.
As much as journalists, academics and other writers of non-fiction try, usually, to maintain an objective viewpoint, it is impossible to do so. We interpret what we see and know through our viewpoint, and this comes out in our writing. In a biography, for example, the author must either like and admire or disapprove of and censure what the person in the biography did, and these feelings will come out in the book. It comes out in the choice of words, in the choice of incidents to relate, and in the details of those narratives. "He gave his red hat away" implies something different from "He gave his hat to a beggar" although they may be the same incident. Some non-fiction, of course, is unabashedly partisan, and is intended to persuade the reader to adopt the opinions of the writer; in such works the author's point of view is easy to discern.
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∙ 9y ago
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∙ 9y agoAs much as journalists, academics and other writers of non-fiction try, usually, to maintain an objective viewpoint, it is impossible to do so. We interpret what we see and know through our viewpoint, and this comes out in our writing. In a biography, for example, the author must either like and admire or disapprove of and censure what the person in the biography did, and these feelings will come out in the book. It comes out in the choice of words, in the choice of incidents to relate, and in the details of those narratives. "He gave his red hat away" implies something different from "He gave his hat to a beggar" although they may be the same incident. Some non-fiction, of course, is unabashedly partisan, and is intended to persuade the reader to adopt the opinions of the writer; in such works the author's point of view is easy to discern.
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∙ 9y agoThe authors' point of view means what he/she is seeing, hearing or thinking at the time. An opinion, attitude, or judgment.
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