Sentences with phrase «into nonfiction»

Being a keynote speaker presents you as an authority on a topic — which is the main reason for delving into the nonfiction genre.

We also delve into nonfiction, newsworthy books, biographies and memoirs.

Fans of Zadie Smith's novels may be less familiar with her forays into nonfiction, which often take the form of essays for The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books.

Though he contemplated turning his observations into a nonfiction account of the political process, Neel instead turned to fiction to craft a gripping look at what might happen if nefarious forces tried to subvert a presidential election.

Consider expanding your offerings into nonfiction that appeals to specific interest groups.

Otherwise they're doing nobody any good and — frankly — Internet «free info» drastically cut into my nonfiction market.

And this fall — November 12th to be exact — we have Zadie Smith's first foray into nonfiction: Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays.

This will not be the best - selling author's first foray into nonfiction.

If your book fits into a nonfiction book category that isn't listed above, you should also create two versions of your book synopsis for literary agents.

This is yet another point in their similarity with the Middle Ages, when texts settled smoothly into the nonfiction category.

Not exact matches

Having read Anthem, Philosophy: Who Needs It, and a good deal of her nonfiction essays first, I came into The Fountainhead expecting a great read but nothing truly new to me.

The entries must have been published in 2012 or 2013, should be nonfiction and may include analytical pieces, autobiographical explorations and forays into culinary history.

If homebirth was so safe, hospital birth would never have come into being; anyone who's read novels set before modern obstetrics, anyone who's spent ten minutes reading nonfiction about any historical period or paid attention in history class, knows that pregnancy / birth was a * major * cause of death for young women.

Their levels of education will be expanded into broader and more complicated areas such as, the scientific method, nonfiction books, and current affairs.

It «intends to translate into Russian science nonfiction books from abroad, including children's literature, publish Russian science authors, and organize science festivals in the hinterlands, far from the science powerhouses of Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Novosibirsk.»

Whether you're into fantasy, feminism, nonfiction or romance, these best books have you covered (sorry, had to).

publishes thousands of free online classics of reference, literature and nonfiction Bring the beauty and truth of the Bible into everyday life.

Like its predecessor, «Under the Gun» potently combines statistics, expert commentary and personal stories into a well - researched and easy - to - consume piece of nonfiction filmmaking.

Into the Wild, based on Jon Krakauer's nonfiction bestseller, revisits themes familiar from his previous work as actor and director — loss, grief, and rebellion.

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.

Be it his MPAA - slamming This Film Is Not Yet Rated or Outrage, his exposé of gay politicians, Kirby Dick's nonfiction cinema drags ugly truths out of the shadows and into the light, a modus operandi again followed with The Invisible War, his investigation - cum - rallying - cry regarding sexual assault in the military.

The second half of «nonfiction» is impressive in the way that it brings both the film and the audience into self - referential territory.

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.

Into this desensitized journalistic context, self - described media activist Talal Derki launches an explosive assault with Return to Homs, one of a select few nonfiction entries in New Directors / New Films 2014.

But before I turn from a Movie Club participant into a Movie Club reader, I'd really like to know what you all thought of how strong a year 2013 was for nonfiction filmmaking.

Loosely inspired by Roland Barthes» nonfiction book A Lover's Discourse: Fragments — which dives into the absurd language of solitude and mythology that lovers and would - be lovers...

She's constantly barking one - liners, insults, advice, tales about the famous men she dated, or breaking out into song or dance (she also tries to direct the film herself at times, ordering the cameraman around in what could contend to be one of the funniest nonfiction moments onscreen this year... or ever).

Loosely adapted from David Grann's nonfiction book, James Gray's ambiguous and lyrically orchestrated historical epic turns the story of the early 20th - century British explorer Percival Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam, in a revelatory performance) and his search for a lost civilization in the wilds of Brazil into a symphony of mystery, obsession, and transcendence.

After the success of Malkovich, Kaufman accepted the job of adapting Susan Orlean's nonfiction book The Orchid Thief into a film.

Hidden Figures Recently adapted to film — with Oscar nominations for best picture and best adapted screenplay — Margot Lee Shetterly's nonfiction book depicts the lives of four black women who, as mathematicians and engineers, helped send the first American astronaut into space.

The Common Core is trying to bridge that gap by bringing nonfiction reading back into schools, in areas like social studies and science.

For example, teachers can choose nonfiction articles for students to practice close reading using skills activities — like highlighting and tagging to cite text evidence — built into each article.»

Rather than idle away precious hours on trivial stories or randomly chosen nonfiction, reading, writing, and listening instruction would be built into the study of ancient civilizations in first grade, for example, Greek mythology in second, or the human body in third.

Achieve3000 is the only solution we've seen that can be integrated into Tier 3 student interventions, while providing an amazing nonfiction article bank that challenges our more advanced students in Tiers 1 and 2.

But she says with Indiana's transition to the Common Core, a set of new academic standards adopted by 46 states and the District of Columbia, she's had to incorporate more nonfiction into her curriculum to prepare students for state tests.

She used to teach a unit on the legends of King Arthur, but feeling the pressure to incorporate more nonfiction into her curriculum because of the Common Core, this year she decided to teach a historical document and landed on John F. Kennedy's inauguration speech.

Virginia Association of Teachers of English (VATE) 2013 Presentation — Rising to the Rigor of the English Standards of Learning (PPT)-- This keynote presentation focuses on rigor in English instruction and assessment and provides tips for infusing nonfiction into the English classroom.

Divided into reading levels and grouped by content - area themes, these nonfiction books feature colorful photos, direct text to image correlation, and high - interest content.

The new balance of literature and nonfiction is intended to spark curiosity, to inspire students to ask more questions, and to motivate them to dig deeply into topics they find interesting — all of which are traits of critical thinkers and lifelong learners.

As a winner of an Association of American Educators Foundation Classroom Grant, Ms. BJ McChesney used her funds to illustrate how nonfiction reading can be integrated into the classroom effectively.

With an eye on increasing rigor and building more nonfiction into the curriculum, policymakers replaced the six Bush - era competency goals with 20 standards for reading and ten for writing.

«Schools need to continue to engage students in novels, drama, and poetry, but also expand reading instruction across subject areas so they develop into strong, critical consumers of nonfiction texts, too.»

Learn how to rephrase the performance objectives of college and career ready standards for English language arts and literacy into good questions that challenge students to comprehend, comment on, consider, critique, and create texts of literacy fiction and nonfiction using various types of oral, written, creative, and technical expression.

This expository nonfiction story includes photographs is divided into sections that describes the Amazon, pink river dolphins and their...

These are the children who read voraciously (often nonfiction) before entering kindergarten, who turn everyday experiences into math challenges to solve, or who induce by themselves the rules of algebra or phonics.

This reading incentive program is divided into nine genres: fantasy, mystery, adventure, science fiction, realistic fiction, historical fiction, nonfiction biography, nonfiction information, and a free choice selection.

Bringing more nonfiction into students» lives will require many educators to stretch a little — from English teachers who love to inspire others through their favorite poems to science teachers accustomed to relying on textbooks to kids whose reading of choice is fiction, fiction, and more fiction.

Erik is looking for the following: literary / upmarket fiction with an emphasis on plot (as in, nothing too slow / quiet / static); popular and academic / trade science nonfiction, especially evolutionary biology; narrative history and biography; contemporary culture criticism (think Klosterman); sports books, if it's got a scope that extends past just games and players and into culture / larger issues.

Open to all individuals, we want fiction, essays, poetry, critical studies, creative nonfiction, comic strips and on and on and on that delve into these facets of identity.

Folding the Red into the Black is a book - length nonfiction essay by one of America's bestselling novelists, Walter Mosley; an alternative political manifesto in which he proposes to throw off «bureaucratic» demands in order «to praise and raise humanity to its full promise.»