Non-fiction in perspective of the combinations of descriptive and narrative techniques. 

 
Narrative Nonfiction:          Literary genre of narrative nonfiction fuses the elements of dynamic storytelling with true life events. "Creative Nonfiction," the genre's purpose is "to make nonfiction stories read like fiction so that your readers are as fascinated by fact as they are by fantasy." Knowing the techniques of narrative nonfiction writing will help you mold true life experiences into essays that will capture readers' imagination while aiming to also teach them valuable truths and messages.

Descriptive Nonfiction:        Descriptive nonfiction employs all five senses to help the reader get a visual of what the writer is trying to describe. Sensory language, rich details, and figurative language are methods used to achieve good descriptive nonfiction.

Kind of Nonfiction

Narrative Nonfiction (Creative Nonfiction)

Expository Nonfiction (Informational Nonfiction)

Persuasive Nonfiction (Argumentative Nonfiction)

Descriptive Nonfiction (Illustrative Nonfiction)

Narrative and Descriptive Nonfictions:

Narrative writing tells a story or part of a story. Descriptive writing vividly portrays a person, place, or thing in such a way that the reader can visualize the topic and enter into the writer's experience.

A narrative often reflects your personal experience, explaining what happened during some sort of experience. Stories are narrative, and narrative essays have a similar purpose of telling the events to a reader. Narrative essay topics include recounting an experience where you learned something significant, your first day at school, your first job interview, a frightening encounter, an experience that changed your life, and two different versions of the same event. Narration is not always a personal experience, though; a book report is narrative since it typically spells out the plot of the book or story.

Description uses sensory detail to describe a scene, person, or feeling to a reader. As you describe, you create a three-dimensional picture so your reader can experience the item, place, person, or emotion along with the reading. Descriptive essay topics include your favorite place, your bedroom, your best friend, the most unusual object you own, an art exhibit, the best or worst teacher you ever had, and your ideal job or dream home.

Both narrative and descriptive essays should follow essay format with an introductory paragraph, body paragraphs, and a concluding paragraph. At the end of the introduction, place a thesis, a sentence that explains the overall purpose of your paper. The writer should give a reason for his narration or description in that thesis, explaining why this event, person, place, or thing is important enough for you to write about. The thesis might express that you are telling a story because you learned something significant or that you are describing a place that creates a sense of calm in your life. In both narration and description, include specific details in the body paragraphs to support the idea outlined in your thesis.