Sentences with phrase «most nonfiction»

But the vast majority of the eBook market is electronic versions of print books, which means pure text for fiction and a limited number of illustrations for most nonfiction.

It seems to me that most nonfiction, self - help advice books are sold based on the desire of readers to align themselves with the existing brand of the author.

-LSB-...] First I wrote about the long - tail nature of most nonfiction self - publishing in Why Self - Publishing is a Long - Tail Business.

In a sense, most nonfiction books are marketing - driven because they are often written for a specific niche.

Most nonfiction authors have a unique opportunity to establish themselves as authorities in their fields.

I think most nonfiction authors who plan to self - publish don't even consider writing a book proposal, yet it's a smart move because it will not only help you clarify what will go in the book, it will also help you shape what will make yours different from others on the topic — which you've referred to here.

Digital formatting hasn't evolved enough to support the graphic features that most nonfiction books need in order to make their points (tables, graphs, pictures, and diagrams).

Most book contracts indicate a project length and most nonfiction books have chapters of similar length.

Most nonfiction authors outline before writing.

Now you can start and finish your book sooner rather than later following an easy 7 step process that forms the foundation for the way most nonfiction books are written.

Focus on Benefits — For most nonfiction books, you should highlight benefits that the reader will enjoy, ideally in a bulleted list following the introductory paragraph.

Many, if not most nonfiction books are sold to publishers as book proposals.

For most nonfiction authors, I think this doesn't really apply, and we'll talk about that in a second.

Table of contents: This is optional and not needed for fiction, but most nonfiction (non-memoir) authors should provide one.

With most nonfiction, you don't lose as much, because the paragraphs are longer — it's not as disruptive.

For a novel, it taught me more about the world than most nonfiction books I've read.

Not exact matches

The series has broken a number of network records and its season - four premiere became the most watched nonfiction episode on cable ever with 11.8 million people turning in (half of those viewers came from the advertiser - loving 25 - to 54 - year - old demographic).

Business books aren't like novels or even most other forms of popular nonfiction.

Of all the nonfiction I read this year, I expect this one will impact future reading the most.

As most people find fiction more accessible than nonfiction, I think the book offers a great opportunity to demystify one of the world's great leaders and prophets.

And no one would have written «The Rapture Plot» — the most accurate, most detailed, and most highly endorsed nonfiction history of the 184 - year - old pretrib rapture theory, available by calling 800.643.4645; the author of it will give $ 1000 to anyone proving there is any deliberate dishonesty in it.)

«Our nonfiction children's collection is very broad and should provide information for most of your family's needs,» she says.

His most recent nonfiction book, on accelerating innovation to overcome environmental and natural resource challenges, is The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet.

Prefaced by the above text, Jon Krakauer's nonfiction bestseller Into the Wild mythologizes the plight of Chris McCandless, who spent the final two years of his life in exile from every relationship he had theretofore established, and in revocation of even the most basic amenities of comfort.

On the documentary front, one of the top - grossing and most buzz - worthy nonfiction pictures of the year has been «Bill Cunningham New York» (yes, sans colon), about the famous octogenarian «New York Times» society and fashion photographer of the same name; in fact, directors from David Frankel to Dito Montiel have personally mentioned the movie to me.

The doc also garnered an award at Full Frame, one of North America's most prestigious nonfiction film festivals.

The annual IDA Documentary Awards celebrates the best nonfiction films, programs and filmmakers of the year at the world's most prestigious event dedicated solely to the documentary genre.

The Unforgettables (Non-competitive Honor, previously announced) The year's most notable and significant nonfiction film subjects

Looking over the impressive crop of nonfiction films this year, it seems like the most noteworthy ones were those that collapsed the boundaries between reality and fiction, or passive documentation and active storytelling, or cinema and television.

Cinema Eye included the film on its annual list dubbed «The Unforgettables,» highlighting «the year's most notable and significant nonfiction film subjects.»

It may not be Wright's best film (that honor likely goes to Atonement) nor is it his most exciting (I'm a huge Hannah stan personally) and it's very far from his lower - tier material (The Soloist, Pan) but Darkest Hour sees the English auteur flexing his muscles in new and exciting ways, turning historical nonfiction into a calculated character study, an intoxicating courtroom drama and an electrifying thriller in its own right.

Before then, there were hit music documentaries like «Woodstock» but most other nonfiction films could expect short runs in few theaters before dutiful audiences.

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.

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.

In his awards ceremony welcoming speech, BFCA / BTJAPresident Joey Berlin said, «We are so happy to be able to celebrate the supremely talented, leading voices in this golden age of documentary filmmaking and nonfiction television, supporting many of the most underappreciated artists in our business.»

The Cinema Eye Honors are the most extensive awards for nonfiction filmmaking, handing out prizes in directing, producing, cinematography, editing, music and graphic design or animation, in addition to overall film awards.

Ta - Nehisi Coates, a national correspondent for The Atlantic and a nominee for the National Book Award's nonfiction prize, is going full geek in a way that resonates with him the most: writing Marvel's new Black Panther series hitting comic book shelves next spring.

Sarah Menzies» terrific nonfiction film is every bit as keenly observed, and its visual storytelling every bit as rich, as the most absorbing narrative fiction feature.

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).

A «nonfiction film» that creates the poetic aura of a narrative film, David mixes most of the audiovisual genres of expressionism, documentary, fiction, avant - garde, video art, visual arts: posters, collages, drawings, to offer the most complete and multi layered vision of a popular hero ever rendered in a film.

But the most powerful predictor of test success is proficiency with nonfiction literacy (writing and reading), White added.

Moving away from fiction, Guinness World Records 2016 is in eighth spot on the list of most borrowed nonfiction (all library users), and I Am Malala — the 2012 memoir of education activist Malala Yousafzai, aimed at readers aged 10 - 18 — is at number 10 in the list of most borrowed biographies.

Tenth - grade world history students interview Chinese immigrants and record their stories; ninth - grade physical science students design and strength - test mock airplane wings; junior English students research, write, and illustrate children's nonfiction picture books; algebra students of all grades investigate a public - transit problem and propose solutions to city officials; sophomore geometry students build scale models of museums they've designed; students across the grades in an environmental - stewardship class raise public awareness of a polluted river — all are examples of academically challenging projects that also manage to engage the minds, hands, and hearts of most high school students across a wide range of abilities and interests.

Much of our compendium of personal favorites — to read and to teach — is made up of memoir and biography, but it is also worth noting that these are the forms of nonfiction that most closely resemble fiction and therefore are most intuitive to students already.

When teachers decide to read nonfiction in class, they most often read its narrative forms, precisely because of their accessibility.

I'd wager that most of an adult's day is spent reading nonfiction!.

With this is mind, most of the lesson plans I write pair a fiction text with a corresponding nonfiction text.

Before Common Core, students in most high school English classes read mostly literature, but the reality now is that students must split their time between fiction and nonfiction.

One of the most useful features of Accelerated Reader 360 is the program's collection of contemporary nonfiction articles.

The standards also emphasize the need for teaching students to conduct research and write informational texts, which means most of us need to beef - up our teaching skills for nonfiction reading and writing.