10-second review: Are creative and expository writing categorically different? “…we need to recognize the false dichotomy between wheat we call ‘creative’ and ‘expository’ writing….”
Source: AR Gere. College Composition and Communication (October 1978), 260. A publication of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).
Comment: In any narrative, you will find portions of exposition, just as you will find narrative in exposition. The most vivid example is in the novel War and Peace in which the story line involving the main characters is conveyed in narrative, contrasted with Tolstoy’s essays on the folly of war. RayS.
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