Sentences with phrase «in nonfiction works»

It is most commonly found in nonfiction works.

She expounded her philosophy, which she called objectivism, in nonfiction works and as editor of two journals and became an icon of radical libertarianism.»

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What it's about: This work of nonfiction intertwines an intimate experience of poverty in America with clear cut causation and politics, using the eviction crisis in Milwaukee, Wis., as a backdrop.

For «The American Dreamer,» directors Lawrence Schiller and L.M. Kit Carson filmed Hopper in Taos while he was in postproduction on «The Last Movie,» though this was hardly a nonfiction work.

Interviews and quotes fall under the nonfiction category, and working my way through Martha Stewart's Cooking School clearly belongs in the apocalyptic genre.

In his book The Art of the Deal (Random House)-- Trump's autobiography which has been described by his ghostwriter as a «nonfiction work of fiction» — he claims his first wife, Ivana, was an alternate for the Czech ski team, yet the Czech Olympic committee says they have no record of this.

Men and women in the campus trenches may find delight and provocation in the work (currently number 1 on the New York Times nonfiction best - seller list), but there isn't much in it to help them in practicable ways.

For almost every situation, you will find not only nonfiction works, but also lively novels and poems that help us to see our situation in new ways, and a little online research can easily help you find them.

Her nonfiction works on Christian doctrine and the role of Christianity in every aspect of daily life posited the reader's acceptance of or at least interest in a call to progress toward spiritual maturity.

Moreover, given the rise of memoir as a literary genre in recent decades, I would see Gioia's list and raise him a series of nonfiction writers whose work is shot through with a profoundly Catholic sensibility — writers like Richard Rodriguez, Annie Dillard, Patricia Hampl, Thomas Lynch, and Barry Lopez.

For the past three decades, the Hugo Award — winning author has been mapping out his vision of the future in dozens of works, both nonfiction and sci - fi.

His complete immersion in his subject makes for a superlative work of narrative nonfiction.

The Invisible War lays bare the reprehensible failings and hypocrisy of a powerful institution, as Dick did in previous nonfiction works such as Twist of Faith (2004), about sexual abuse in the Catholic Church; This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006), an occasionally gimmicky exposé of the MPAA's outsize influence and idiocy; and Outrage (2009), on closeted pols who vote anti-gay.

Shot in 1996 when director Michael Lucid was a senior in high school and then edited in 2000, Dirty Girls is a work of nonfiction portraiture about a group of rebellious thirteen - year - old «riot grrrls» who...

Since that epic chronicle of two inner - city Chicago teens» crusades to become professional basketball players — one of the most acclaimed and successful nonfiction features of its decade — James has gone on to make other probing studies of American life, such as the intensely personal Stevie, the capital - punishment exposé At the Death House Door, and last year's The Interrupters, a devastating immersion in the work of street - violence mediators.

The nominees for this year's Heterodox Award (recognizing work that blurs the line between fiction and nonfiction) as well as this year's Legacy Award recipient will be announced in the coming weeks.

The 13th is the first - ever nonfiction work to open the festival, and will debut on Netflix and open in a limited theatrical run on October 7.

One of the country's most original nonfiction filmmakers, Bogdan Dziworski, made a comeback in May 2014, when he received a retrospective at the Kraków Film Festival and announced that he was at work on a new film.

A nonfiction film about the slow bleed of American manufacturing jobs over the past five to six decades, American Made Movie is engaging enough for armchair politicos, but generally more successful as a diagnostic statement of basic socioeconomic condition than a groundbreaking work in and of itself.

A remarkable snapshot of underclass life, love, humor and despair, Position Among the Stars, which picked up the Special World Cinema Documentary Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, and recently played at the Los Angeles Film Festival, is an utterly absorbing and strikingly humane nonfiction film that, in non-judgmental nor holier - than - thou fashion, locates the universality of human struggle in charting the tumultuous ups and downs of an extended Indonesian family trying to work their way out of the slums.

Jessica Oreck's fantastical work combines animation, traditional storytelling, and contemporary nonfiction filmmaking styles to recount the Slavic folktale of the frightful Baba Yaga, a witch said to live in a woodland hut perched on chicken legs who roasts her guests for dinner.

By Scott Mendelson HollywoodNews.com: Most of the ideas in Tony Kaye's Detachment are not revolutionary, especially not to anyone who has followed the last thirty years of debate regarding the public education system in America (Jonathan Kozel's many works of nonfiction come to mind).

Eschewing narration and on - screen text in favor of interviews that serve to keep the story propelled ever - forward — and often taking up residence right beside, or over the shoulder of, its Autodefensas subjects — Cartel Land is the rare nonfiction work that routinely keeps one's nerves on edge.

Starting in the late 1980s, Herzog began to focus much more on documentary storytelling (though he had always made documentaries previously, and would continue to make fiction films, going forwards), and now has a body of work that includes such nonfiction masterpieces as Little Dieter Needs to Fly, Grizzly Man, the Oscar - nominated Encounters at the End of the World and Cave of Forgotten Dreams.

To teach works ranging from Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies about the dictatorship of Trujillo in the Dominican Republic to Shakespeare's infamous tragedy Romeo and Juliet, we created literature units with supplemental nonfiction readings, as the Common Core standards suggesIn the Time of the Butterflies about the dictatorship of Trujillo in the Dominican Republic to Shakespeare's infamous tragedy Romeo and Juliet, we created literature units with supplemental nonfiction readings, as the Common Core standards suggesin the Dominican Republic to Shakespeare's infamous tragedy Romeo and Juliet, we created literature units with supplemental nonfiction readings, as the Common Core standards suggest.

Good Girl Work, (Millbrook Press, 1999), which relates stories of female child labor, was named by the ALA as one of the best nonfiction books published for young adult readers in 1999.

Examine appropriate reference and fiction and nonfiction resources, such as How Things Work by David Macaulay and The Great Wall of China by Leonard Everett Fisher, in order to develop a list of basic tools and simple machines and answer such research questions as: What are some tools and devices that have been invented to make life easier?

Several teachers also have assigned the book as a work of nonfiction to students in English classes, and have used it to prompt students» reflections on their education.

Great for readers of all literacy levels, these nine nonfiction titles work in English language arts, social studies, and science classes.

In many fields, writing is considered an art, a talent that is considered creative expression, even if the writing in question is a nonfiction worIn many fields, writing is considered an art, a talent that is considered creative expression, even if the writing in question is a nonfiction worin question is a nonfiction work.

Middle school English classes will take on more of a social studies flavor to meet one of the main goals of the Common Core: introducing students to more of the types of nonfiction and informational reading they likely will encounter in college and at work.

Using other nonfiction works, the course guides students in recognizing the importance of analyzing evidence, recognizing symbolism, examining word choice, and identifying figurative language in nonfiction literature.

Most of those were selective - enrollment schools in CPS, including Skinner North Classical School, where, on a recent day this month, fifth - graders were working on sixth - grade material in social studies, weaving in the literacy goals and nonfiction text of the Common Core standards.

Similarly, the National Academy of Advanced Teacher Education, or NAATE, which provides specialized professional growth opportunities for educators, works to retain teachers and school leaders through opportunities to grow in data - driven instruction techniques, peer leadership, and communication and feedback.32 Building on past professional learning successes via its network of teacher leaders in 185 sites, the National Writing Project's, or NWP's, College Ready Writers Program demonstrated that teachers will commit to and participate in high quality professional development that helps them strategize approaches to teach argument writing using nonfiction texts and provided adaptable classroom materials.

These upper elementary school learners immerse themselves in within - reach fiction books and expository nonfiction as they work on vocabulary development, envisionment, ascertaining main ideas, recognizing text infrastructure, and thinking critically.

«We teach so much around nonfiction text in history that I thought there was a lot of opportunity to get somewhere with Common Core if we had the chance to work with it.»

I think I'll work on creative nonfiction in May, with the idea that I complete at least one short project or do some significant work on my long project.

Agent Brian Tibbetts is interested in representing new works of fiction and nonfiction for the general market.

22 black literary agents work at 16 of the 6oo + different literary agencies in the United States; however, 261 agents accept queries for multicultural fiction and 233 agents accept queries for nonfiction books dealing with multicultural issues.

Mark works with authors of all genres (fiction, nonfiction, and children's books), around the world, in these programs.

Narrative Magazine awards a US$ 4000 new and emerging writers» prize for the best short story, novel excerpt, poem, one - act play, graphic story, or work of literary nonfiction published in the magazine.

Nonfiction (except Quressa, who considers select passion projects in narrative nonfiction and memoir — see above — but does not represent abuse narratives or political works)

RUBIN: From experience, I knew that readers prefer a chronological sequence in a work of nonfiction.

In the course of doing research for a book like Astoria, which my agent has called «historical adventure,» I find myself reading bits and pieces of all sorts of works of nonfiction, as well as explorers» journals and memoirs, history, anthropology and many other eclectic subjects.

Her nonfiction work appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Ms., Essence, Black Enterprise, Ebony, Working Mother, USA Weekend,... (more)

Loiacono Literary Agency employs three agents (Jeanie Loiacono, President / CEO, agent, Johnnie Bernhard, agent and author, and Melissa Carrigee, agent and author, graphic artist, cover artist, and book trailer designer) who are interested in all quality works from children's picture books to literary fiction and all nonfiction.

In addition to copyright law, there are other, often more powerful, ways for nonfiction writers to protect their work and themselves.

So just how does copyright work to the benefit of nonfiction writers, writers for whom the substance of their work is in the facts?

She is passionate about teaching and especially enjoys working with nonfiction authors, consultants, speakers, entrepreneurs, and other professionals who care about making a difference in the world.

Mark specializes in books with bestseller or high commercial potential, and he works with authors of all genres (fiction, nonfiction, children's books) around the world, at all stages of development.