Coming to the Non-Fiction category. It includes articles, essays, reports, travelogues, biography, memoirs and autobiography etc. Essays and reports should always be written in the third person. While writing articles, it all depends upon the nature of the content of the article. If the article is a how to or an instructional article, it is always better to write in the second person, in a conversational style and tone, as if the writer is talking with the reader. While biography is the life history of an eminent person written by an author as a third person as narrated to him by the eminent person, naturally the biography is written only in the third person account. Whereas, the autobiography is the personal account of a person written in the first person. ‘My Experiments with Truth written by Gandhi is the classic example of ‘Autobiography’. The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is yet another classic example of autobiography written in the first person.

While letters, queries etc are addressed by one person to another, they are invariably written in the second person in a conversational tone. Similarly, a cook write should invariably write his article or book in the second person account.

Editorial articles, columns, tabloids, fillers and profile etc are invariably written in the third person.

Therefore, before embarking upon to write anything, it is always necessary to choose the category of the writing first of all. Having chosen the category, then the writer has to analyze the content of his subject. Then he has to decide which person or form is appropriate to his writing. Then only he has to proceed. If he chooses the correct person and format for his writing with a good content and then proceeds to write, then his writing will take care of everything; it is needless to mention that it will be a hit and sure to click in the writing world.