Sentences with phrase «nonfiction story»

«History can deepen any creative nonfiction story.

This makes your nonfiction story credible.

I would like to post a sample chapter of my nonfiction story, and I do not know where to post it.

Dog Gone by Pauls Toutonghi is a nonfiction story about an adopted dog named Gonker who wins the hearts of Fielding Marshall and his parents, Ginny and John.

This nonfiction story...

This narrative nonfiction story sequences the steps an illustrator follows when creating pictures for a story.

In this nonfiction story, readers learn how and why scientists brave the extreme conditions of both poles in order to do research that...

This nonfiction story presents facts and details about how and where hurricanes are formed, the ways in which people are warned of hurr...

That's because the book — a nonfiction story about 19 Mexican immigrants who died while trying to cross the border in Texas 14 years ago — hit close to home.

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

In some respects I write as a kind of middle man between the seminary and the pew, but I'm also interested in examining ideas and experiences in the forms of nonfiction stories and am moving toward fiction.

Skill - building Hidden Picture scenes help them learn through play, and engaging fiction and nonfiction stories encourage a lifetime love of reading.

Students use video, audio, photography, web, and social media to craft documentaries and nonfiction stories about the world around them.

We try to read nonfiction stories all the time in our class that integrate math, science and reading!

Early first grade through fifth grade students are very independent using these strategies to improve their fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and writing skills while enjoying and learning using nonfiction stories.

Learn about Read Naturally GATE, which uses nonfiction stories to systematically teach foundational skills to small groups of beginning and developing readers.

The students also enjoy talking about the nonfiction stories.

Each level consists of eight different books with five nonfiction stories per book.

Entries can be submitted by published and unpublished writers and can be either fiction or nonfiction stories.

Fellows will participate in three intensive workshops focusing on developing, writing, marketing, and publishing their creative nonfiction stories about harmonies between science and religion.

The essence of Atavist is that is a boutique publishing house producing original nonfiction stories for digital, mobile reading devices.

The essence of Atavist is that it is a boutique publishing house producing original nonfiction stories for digital reading devices.

Each issue of Under the Gum Tree includes seven to ten original nonfiction stories and personal essays, one photo essay, and one cover artist whose work is also featured throughout the interior pages.

Not exact matches

According to research conducted at the University of Toronto, study participants who read short - story fiction experienced far less need for «cognitive closure» compared with counterparts who read nonfiction essays.

While the bulk of the book addresses how to write fiction, Pressfield shows how the same principles of writing good stories can apply to writing nonfiction.

From inspirational stories to biographies, educational texts, and other nonfiction books, it covers an array of titles that will help you grow personally and professionally.

Actually, nonfiction works for children are the untold story of the past two decades.

While it is well - organized and beautifully paced, with touches of lyrical writing throughout, surely the source of its appeal is that it is a wonderful story that also happens to be true, as warm and fuzzy as nonfiction can get without suggesting a collaboration of Horatio Alger and Sylvester Stallone.

Both fiction and nonfiction books provide us with an opportunity to experience a story and another person's life through a protagonist's eyes.

She can read fiction and nonfiction books about chimps, including stories about researchers like Jane Goodall.

After failed attempts at a fictional account, a lunch with the writer Gay Talese — who urged Villano to tell the story as nonfiction — provided the push he needed.

Each month we will be publishing your stories of change, of revelation: your creative nonfiction, your poems, your photo essays and digital art.

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.

The lovely, meandering synthesis of fiction and nonfiction techniques she achieved in that movie has advanced here to new levels of artistic refinement, not least because her formal explorations have been tethered to a uniquely harrowing real - life story.

Purportedly telling the true story that inspired Moby Dick, Heart is based on a 2000 nonfiction book by Nathaniel Philbrick.

Produced by Netflix and Synthesis films, Making A Murderer, which follows the story of convicted murderer Steven Avery, took home four trophies, including outstanding documentary series, and nonfiction program writing, directing and editing.

The film, based on the nonfiction book Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand, showcases the parts of Zamperini's life that took place both immediately before and during WWII — with a bit of childhood flashbacks thrown in for story purposes as Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand, showcases the parts of Zamperini's life that took place both immediately before and during WWII — with a bit of childhood flashbacks thrown in for story purposes as story purposes as well.

Speaking to Variety's chief film critic Scott Foundas, Mann discusses growing up in Chicago, becoming interested in crime stories, the visual ideas he had for the film, the nonfiction book he discarded but still credited, the influence of real criminals and past films (particularly his eye - opening time shooting The Jericho Mile in Folsom Prison), choosing Tangerine Dream to do the score (a decision he still second guesses), the film's writing (including basing characters on real crime figures), casting, explosive stunts, changes made from the shooting script, and the modernist narrative.

After teasing a number of different ambitious projects in 2017 — including an adaptation of Fernando Morais» nonfiction book The Last Soldiers Of The Cold War: The Story Of the Cuban Five and a slightly re-cast version of Idol's Eye, his perpetually stalled Chicago mob thriller — Assayas ultimately went with a previously unannounced project about the French publishing industry as his next film.

Cielo Description: The first feature from Alison McAlpine, director of the beautiful 2008 «nonfiction ghost story» short Second Sight, is a dialogue with the heavens — in this case, the heavens above Read More →

As much a testing of the boundaries of the fiction / nonfiction realms as it is simply telling a story (similar to his approach to «Actress»), here Greene creates a hybrid that is «emotionally gripping and infinitely thought - provoking.»

Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski for the episode «Manna From Heaven» from «The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story,» based on the nonfiction book «The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson,» by Jeffrey Toobin

FIRST PLACE / NARRATIVE The Peculiar Abilities of Mr. Mahler, Paul Philipp, director FIRST PLACE / ANIMATION Negative Space, Max Porter & Ru Kuwahata, co-directors FIRST PLACE / NONFICTION Breaking the Cycle, Josephine Jackson & Vincent Augusto, co-directors FIRST PLACE / EXPERIMENTAL Gray Umbrella, Mohammad Poustindouz, director STUDENT AWARD It's Just a Gun, Brian Robau, director TEXAS AWARD Bodies of Water, David Lykes Keenan, director Jury Prize — Guan Xi, Dora Wu, director Jury Prize — The Driver is Red, Randall Christopher, director Jury Prize — The Modern Lives, Bill Plympton, director Performance Award — Michael Laskin, A Real Adventure Cinematography Award — Wasteland, Jakub Michnikowski, director Honorable Mention, Narrative — Counterfeit Kunkoo, Reema Sengupta, director Honorable Mention, Narrative — Mrs McCutcheon, John Sheedy, director Honorable Mention, Narrative — Hope Dies Last, Ben Price, director Honorable Mention, Narrative — Passion Gap, Matt Portman & Jason Donald, co-directors Honorable Mention, Narrative — Seven, James Morgan, director Honorable Mention, Nonfiction — Hunger for Truth: The Rhea Clyman Story, Andrew Tkach, director Honorable Mention, Nonfiction — Uncle Jessie White - Portrait of a Delta Blues Man in Detroit, Stashu Kybartas, director Honorable Mention, Experimental — Strangers, Eve Duhamel, director Honorable Mention, Student Film — The Chocolate Soldier, Jackson Smith, director Honorable Mention, Texas — Underneath, Christopher Grissom, director Honorable Mention, Texas — Aberration, Andy Pollack, director

Jason Hall («American Sniper») lets the story — which is based on an acclaimed nonfiction book by journalist David Finkel — unfold slowly, showing instead of telling what these men and their families are enduring.

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.

Also at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards, Sarah Polley's «Stories We Tell» was named best nonfiction film and Bruno Delbonnel received best cinematographer for «Inside Llewyn Davis.»

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.

After reading a novel, nonfiction text, short story, or poetry unit, help students evaluate their reading skills: Did you feel confident reading the text?

And in a similarly placed story (on the Times front page) a couple of weeks before Rich's, colleague Pam Belluck reported that a new study in the journal Science had found that «after reading literary fiction, as opposed to popular fiction or serious nonfiction, people performed better on tests measuring empathy, social perception and emotional intelligence — skills that come in especially handy when you are trying to read someone's body language or gauge what they might be thinking.»)

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.