Sentences with phrase «rather than nonfiction»

Not exact matches

Its ELA curriculum focuses on getting students to read more (especially, challenging nonfiction that builds background knowledge), write more, and cite evidence for their ideas rather than just state opinions.

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.

I can tell you that the vast majority of the major publishers» nonfiction I've purchased in eBook format does use (modified) paragraph indents rather than block style.

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For novels, fictional anecdotes in nonfiction, and true stories told in a narrative style, I highlight areas where you can «show, not tell,» use active voice rather than passive, and weave in more sensory details and point - of - view characters» observations, thoughts, and feelings.

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.

I'm fermenting a book, which for me is a lot of imagining rather than writing, and I find that everything I read — fiction or nonfiction — is yeast.

What I am about to outline pertains more to nonfiction writers rather than fiction.

Black and white is perfectly serviceable if you're mostly reading novels, rather than illustrated nonfiction, or comics, or other books heavy on pictures.

And perhaps non-narrative nonfiction could be seen as having a different purpose than genre fiction does — to inform primarily, rather than to entertain primarily — so nonfiction authors might then publish eBooks with other than purely commercial goals.

Bearing this practical utility in mind, you can charge more for nonfiction because people are happier paying for something they think they need rather than want.

For example, the objective of Viking, an imprint of The Penguin Group, is «To publish a strictly limited list of good nonfiction, such as biography, history and works on contemporary affairs, and distinguished fiction with some claim to permanent importance rather than ephemeral popular interest.»

Whether fiction or nonfiction, it's much easier to market a series of books, rather than just a single title.

Probably no surprise there for those inside the industry, but some authors keep pitching nonfiction books as if it were 2007, rather than 2014.

That is clearly the model you're using, but when you get some time, you might want to try a tour that focuses on some of the nonfiction nuggets in your book, zeroing in on specific topic audiences rather than blogs that are built around a genre.

Rather, it reflects the many hundreds of detailed Amazon sub-sub-sub-category bestseller lists for non-fiction (Health, Fitness & Dieting > Alternative Medicine > Holistic, for example), that make lower - selling nonfiction more visible to the spider than equally low - selling fiction.»