Lee Gutkind talks about Creative Nonfiction Writing for Scientists
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Lee Gutkind, founder of Creative Nonfiction offers storytelling advice to scientists, engineers and technical writers who want their work to be remembered.
Author Summary
Lee Gutkind, dubbed by Vanity Fair as "the Godfather behind creative nonfiction," is the author and editor of more than 20 books, including the award-winning Many Sleepless Nights, a chronicle of the breakthroughs in the organ transplant world. He is founder and editor of Creative Nonfiction and Distinguished Writer-in-Residence in the Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes and Professor in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University.
Gutkind has lectured to audiences around the world-from China to the Czech Republic, from Australia to Africa and most recently, Egypt, where his lectures and workshops concerned, "Writing the Revolution." His other topics include robots, healthcare and the worldwide storytelling explosion. The need for a personal and public narrative--begins in literature, but extends to advertising, business, politics, law and science, says Gutkind.
Most recently, Gutkind's anthologies, Becoming a Doctor: From Student to Specialist, Doctor-Writers Share Their Experiences was published by W.W. Norton and Twelve Breaths a Minute: End of Life Stories, a topic about which he speaks with passion and authority, was published by Southern Methodist University Press.
Publication Summary
Creative Nonfiction was the first and is still the largest literary magazine to publish, exclusively and on a regular basis, high-quality, nonfiction prose. The journal has consistently featured prominent authors from the United States and around the world and has helped launch the careers of some of the genre's most exciting emerging writers, as well as helping establish the creative nonfiction genre as a worthy academic pursuit.
Printed in Pittsburgh, PA, by Mathews Color Corporation, Creative Nonfiction has a circulation of 7,000 and is distributed in the U.S. by Ingram Periodicals Inc., Media Solutions, and Source Interlink Distribution.
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Absolutely fascinating. Love it.
shout out sa HUMSS 3
Hi classmate
@restyoleo1222
3 жыл бұрын
Low classmate
Captivating presentation of the fastest growing genre, creative or narrative nonfiction, and the potential it has to further enlighten our society. Bravo!
Saket ng story pero mas masakit pinaramdam mo
Shout out sa kwas ko😂
Blah blah blah -- not worth the time if you're trying to learn anything.
@Watsongab123
9 жыл бұрын
But my English professor thinks the opposite.
@TickleMeTimbers
Ай бұрын
@@Watsongab123 your english professor is paid to read students' work. they are not a good measure of what actually works. also if you write in stories, you are inevitably pushing away all the smart people who don't have the time to read through your boring story and will just skip the whole thing to save time. just keep in mind when you write like this, it's for the average moron who has nothing better to do with their time instead of an educated audience that cares not to be jerked around with your uninteresting narratives.
but why do we need to make science interesting to people who aren't interested in science? that seems like one person's goal. not a need. writing in stories is for idiots who can't digest information and just want to be mildly entertained. i cringe every time an article or a book starts with a story, I roll my eyes and try to skip it. But inevitably, because of people like this, all the joy of reading and learning is sucked out of reading and I have to fumble through thousands of words of irrelevant drivel because it was written for the average moron. It's such a shame. The loss of intellectual potential because so many people just want to write in stories is unfathomable. I literally cannot stand when people try and tell stories like this. and it's like 95% of what's published out there.