Hi, and welcome to strategy five technique to, in nonfiction, a significant point drives the reader forward. And this thread weaves itself throughout the piece. So it's very similar to fiction. But like I said earlier, you want to have one key main idea, driving question, theme, or idea and all the paragraphs, you don't want to go off on a tangent, you want to make sure in some way that they support come together with unify back or explain that key question or main idea. In some cases, you'll have a direct thesis. In other cases, you'll have more of an implied thesis.

Either way, you want to have that unifying support throughout. The key question here in fiction or nonfiction? Why should the reader care about your piece? And that may sound kind of harsh but it's not meant to come across as being sarcastic. It's meant to come across very literally. Why should the reader care about your piece, make them get them involved.

Show them your engagement. Show them why the characters driving force matters to the reader, show them why your key question or theme is important, really engage them in the importance of the topic. And that's why a lot of times and intros and conclusions, you'll want to talk about why the issue is important. You don't want to get on a soapbox, necessarily and preach to your reader, but expressing to them why the issue is important. What's at stake with it? Why is it urgent and why should the reader care?

Why should it matter? That is your main idea. That is your driving force. That strong component will keep your reader engaged throughout just like talking about following your curiosity and following your instincts that we'll talk about in some of the future strategies and techniques. You want to make sure that that comes through in your main idea and that does engage the reader if you're engaged and that comes through in your writing. your reader is also more likely to be engaged an example Have nonfiction ways to engage the reader to have that thread that drives through the whole piece.

Here's a quotation. You know, you don't throw a whole life away just cause it's banged up a little since Tom Smith from Seabiscuit that masterpiece, it tells a story of an under horse past his prime who has been thrown away. And I don't want to spoil the storyline if you've never read the book, but basically the story is about healing brokenness and redeem redeeming loss. And Seabiscuit is a horse that supposedly past his prime. He doesn't have the ideal physique for a racehorse, he's got these intimidating opponents, nobody's believed in him. Nobody's believed in these other people that have been broken by the depression.

And so the driving force in this storyline is redemption, restoration and even vindication to a point and that drives the characters throughout in its in a sense, they all redeemed each other red power, who is the biskits rider step. You know, everyone thinks we found this broken down horse and fix them. But we didn't. He fixed us, every one of us. And I guess in a way we kind of fixed each other too. And so that's the thing and the driving force throughout.

That's what makes you root for Seabiscuit and what's so bad to see him succeed, and it makes you want to see Tom Smith succeed and it makes you want to see the trainer succeed and see biskits rider succeed and his owner because they're all broken. And there's that thing running throughout. That's a common thread between all of the characters including Seabiscuit, and so it makes everybody even in real life during the Depression when all this was going on. That's why people routed for Seabiscuit because he was an under horse and underdog and people can understand that they could relate to it. It wasn't cliche at the time. And so it was a very good thing for a story.

It's one that even people today can understand somebody who's broken down on their luck supposedly not good enough, not the ideal candidate for something we've all been there. So that's a common thing that everybody can understand. So just reiterating technique to have strategy five under purpose. In nonfiction, a significant point drives the reader forward and this thread weaves itself throughout the piece. Why should the reader care about your piece, really think about it, that that's your main idea and that is technique to have strategy.