Sentences with phrase «fiction is on the increase»

To say that basketball fiction is on the increase is not, however, to say that much of it is especially good.

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Headlines and government agencies should be asking why obstetricians are performing unnecessary surgery on healthy pregnant women for no medical reason, rather than promoting the fiction of increasing rates of «maternal request» cesareans.

According to a new report from the Brown Center on Educational Policy, states that have adopted Common Core standards are likely to see a de-emphasis in use of fiction materials and increased use of nonfiction materials in language classes.

On the one hand, the goal is to increase the number of people reading, especially literary fiction, and if this means getting your work on - line, or into a digital format, well then, that's what writers should dOn the one hand, the goal is to increase the number of people reading, especially literary fiction, and if this means getting your work on - line, or into a digital format, well then, that's what writers should don - line, or into a digital format, well then, that's what writers should do!

While a site for fiction is built around increasing book sales, a site on a non-fiction topic is largely designed around profiting from a reader of your books, far beyond the initial sale of the book.

I seem to have been on a science fiction kick lately, but this one — while written a few decades ago — seems to have a lot of today's details involved with its plot: a government growing larger and larger, increasing unemployment, an ever - increasing public debt, and inflation growing unchecked.

Tor Books, the high - profile science - fiction publisher dropped DRM last April, and they have seen «no discernible increase in piracy on any of our titles, despite them being DRM - free for nearly a year,» according to their editorial director, Julie Crisp.

If I'm working on a science fiction novel and the author states that the universe is 13.8 billion years old, I'll check that this figure is current and correct — science and tech are especially tricky, since our knowledge is increasing at such a rate that «facts» are constantly changing.

The famous Harvard study on writing down goals may be fact or fiction, but those of us who practice it know that committing a goal to paper does indeed increase the chances of it coming to pass.