Web Links

The following links contain information concerning nonfiction prose.

When you have finished all the activities in Chapter 5, go on to Chapter 6.

What is Literary Nonfiction?
(http://lnf.uoregon.edu/whatis.html)

This page provides information that defines literary nonfiction.

Classics in the Field
(http://lnf.uoregon.edu/classics.html)

This page provides a list of classic examples of literary nonfiction.

Memoirs of the Oregon Trail
(http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/00.n.memoirs.html)

This site provides examples of literary nonfiction in the form of memoirs of journeys made by pioneers on the Oregon Trail in the 1800s.

What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
(http://douglassarchives.org/doug_a10.htm)

This site provides an example of informational nonfiction in the form of a speech. This particular speech was given by Frederick Douglass on July 5, 1852.

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