Sentences with phrase «of nonfiction writing»

In this twenty - seventh monthly volume the full novel Grapevine Springs: A Thunder Mountain Novel, plus four short stories, and half of a nonfiction writing book.

After completing a creative writing course in her teens, she discovered her love of nonfiction writing and is now a freelance writer and professional editor.

Teaching Nonfiction Writing K - 3, Tony Stead shows you how to open the door to the rich world of nonfiction writing that goes beyond «what I did» narratives and animal reports.

Not exact matches

«Written in 1960s San Francisco and New York, Didion's collection of essays is not so much a bundle of nonfiction as it is a long, threaded musing on her own life, set to the daunting counterculture tempo of the times,» Wang and Wolfson note.

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.

I bring a lifetime of practical nonfiction writing success and content marketing experience based on the unchanging principles of market education, targeting ideal clients, and maintaining constant visibility.

He approached me about writing the fiction side of The Day I Met Jesus after he found out I wrote fiction as well as nonfiction.

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.

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.)

Writing the novel series for him, and traveling with him all over the country to promote it, I saw the softer side of a man famous for successful pastorates, the founding of Christian schools and a college, best - selling nonfiction books, and strong opinions.

He was a prolific writer and wrote 81 Perry Mason novels and a total of 181 books, including many nonfiction books.

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.

The best basketball writing so far has been nonfiction: Pete Axthelm's The City Game and Charles Rosen's Scandals of» 51.

Clarke, who suffered from post-polio syndrome and reportedly had trouble breathing before his death on March 18, wrote scores of books, both fiction and nonfiction, and won numerous awards.

On the site, writers of fiction and nonfiction are welcome to write, publish, and sell ebooks without constraint.

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Creative nonfiction (also known as literary nonfiction or narrative nonfiction) is a genre of writing that uses literary styles and techniques to create Creativity isn't a big deal.

Don't plan to write a bad first draft of your nonfiction book during National Nonfiction Writing Month.

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.

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.

The book was written with the great nonfiction practitioner Tom Bissell, one of the millions sickly enchanted by the cockamamie charms of The Room.

Eco was a longtime professor at Europe's oldest university, the University of Bologna, and an expert in the field of semiotics who wrote more than 20 nonfiction books about how signs and symbols can be used to interpret cultural history.

Extracts included: «American Sniper», Chris Kyle «The Charge of the Light Brigade», William Howard Russell «Letter to My Mother», Wilfred Owen «A Beautiful Job», Gunner William Towers (WW1) «The Death of Lord Nelson», William Beatty «We Shall Fight Them on the Beaches», Winston Churchill «Surrender Speech», Chief Joseph (taken from the AQA Reading Support Booklet) «The Gettysburg Address», Abraham Lincoln In addition to this, the presentations also include some optional Paper 2, Section B questions that link to the extracts and aim to develop students» nonfiction writing skills.

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

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Write a topic sentence from a nonfiction passage in the middle of your screen, and show students how to jot down supporting details in a web radiating from this main idea.

Daphne Stanford writes poetry & nonfiction, and she believes in the power of art, education, and community radio to change the world.

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.

You write that the challenges students face in reading nonfiction are both a cause and an effect of the knowledge deficit.

I recently discussed this with Adam Hochschild, a journalist who co-founded Mother Jones and has written eight nonfiction books, including one of my favorites, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa.

We know these gains are from our daily critical reading and writing of nonfiction presented the old fashioned way — in print.

As a result of this daily focus on reading nonfiction and writing in response to argumentative, informative and narrative prompts, we have witnessed greater gains in our students» writing, analytical thinking skills and confidence than we have ever experienced before in over two decades of combined teaching.

They also expect students to prepare for the workplace by reading and writing about a wide variety of nonfiction texts.

This «Core of the Core» comprises the first half of the book and instructs educators on how to teach students to: read harder texts, «closely read» texts rigorously and intentionally, read nonfiction more effectively, and write more effectively in direct response to texts.

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.

We've written before that the coming Common Core standards put a greater emphasis on reading nonfiction and could change the kind of texts teachers use in their classrooms.

They spend more time on literacy, engage in more nonfiction writing, conduct collaborative scoring with a common definition of what student success looks like, and they have clear intervention plans for every single student that is in danger of failure.

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

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.

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.

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 matWriting 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 matwriting using nonfiction texts and provided adaptable classroom materials.

The following examples provide fiction samples paired with companion nonfiction texts and offer a series of text - dependent questions, vocabulary activities, writing assignments, and opportunities for research.

Achieve3000's patented model of research - based differentiated instruction for school - aged youth as well as adult learners delivers daily instruction for nonfiction reading and writing that's precisely tailored to each student's Lexile reading level.

«Up to that point, most textbooks are written in fiction; there wasn't a lot of nonfiction being used,» she said.

The standards also mention something about nonfiction writing, but all of the examples in the appendix seem to be only more two - page efforts that will far from challenge the capability of our students in academic writing.

Part One provides a complete overview of teaching nonfiction writing in the primary grades and includes:

Your child will demonstrate reading, writing, and analytical skills on the TNReady English assessment by working with short readings of fiction and nonfiction.

A multibillion - dollar industry of competing vendors is promoting a dizzying array of new products — textbooks, curriculum, teacher - training workshops, software, laptops, iPads, nonfiction kid magazines, games, even Lego blocks — all meant to help students develop skills such as «evidence - based writing» and mastering fractions.

Mark is founder of The Bestselling Author, a company that helps authors of all genres (fiction, nonfiction, and children's book) write, publish, and market their books.

She represents a broad array of fiction and nonfiction — books for both children and adults, and instructs frequently on topics such as literary agents, getting published, e-publishing, successful writing techniques, selling & pitching your book, and more.