How does a creative/expository hybrid work?

[frozenfriend]

I've seen a lot of talk about them, but I've done a bit of searching (maybe I'm just bad) and I can't really find any examples of some of the direction people have taken with the creative and expository hybrid context essays. I always like to have a concrete starting point before I get too wild with my own ideas.

Does anyone have any example essays they could share or give me some direction?

[brenden]

I was teaching one of my students to play around with narrative voice last year, eg, switching between third, first, and second person at the right times for the right reasons, and he wrote me a piece that was creatively first person, but then switched into an appropriate third person expository style of writing. I think he pulled it off, in that his voices worked together nicely, so I suppose one way is to literally do an alternation of both styles, but that might be difficult.

[hala_madrid]

Consider something like a feature article in a newspaper, where you are the writer/reporter interviewing someone, then constructing a story around it (all relevant to your context and the topic of course). That's the most typical form of an expository/creative hybrid.

To be honest though I'd steer clear of it unless you really know what you are doing, expository, if practiced enough with the correct structure, can yield you top marks. Plus it's much, much easier, reliable and consistent