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The article focuses on the literary genres of creative nonfiction in the U.S. Accordingly, the paper cites several essays from different authors and professors in which they share different views of the impact of creative nonfiction on the writing ability of first year college students. Moreover, it also presents his comments on the views that he has cited, and presents his analysis on the effectiveness of teaching creative nonfiction in the composition classroom which might create a new kind of process-centered textbook and a new process-centered pedagogy.

The article focuses on the work of Langston Hughe's "Jesse B. Semple" columns as literary journalism in the U.S. Tom Wolfe's definition of literary journalism, contains five characteristics common to novel writing including intensive interviewing and observation, extensive use of dialogue, varied point of view. Therefore, recent scholars believed that Langston Hughes column featuring a literary character known as Jesse B. Semple falls under this given criteria. His Simple columns aimed to encourage his fellow blacks to support the World War II despite of the unequal treatment of afforded to them.