Chapter 8 "Written Sources"

     This chapters explains how written sources are a large part of creative nonfiction, even though it doesn't seem so. When you think of writing a memoir, or a nonfiction essay, the last thought that come to mind is doing research on the topic. But as this chapter points out, many celebrated pieces of creative nonfiction use multiple written sources, whether a grandmother's old diary or history books. The chapter also explains how written sources are incorporated into nonfiction writing, which even with direct quotations, requires no parenthetical citation or footnote.