The Textbook's the Thing: Re-Emphasizing Creative Nonfiction in First-Year Composition.

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.