Curious about the best nonfiction books of 2023? Read stunning memoirs and learn more about history with these must-read nonfiction books.
Are you ready to write your first nonfiction book? Of course not, or you would have done it by now! Perhaps it’s time to enlist the help of a professional. The idea of writing a book may be scary or challenging, but Lauren Bingham is back with a guide for the nonprofessional writer who is
Before studying to become a reading specialist, I had never explicitly been taught nonfiction text structures as a student and I also hadn’t been taught the importance of teaching them to our students as an
Whether you're just getting started or halfway through this WIP, try these methods to land on the best way to structure your nonfiction book.
From enthralling histories to fascinating biographies, you’ll be sucked right into these books.
Investigative journalism is one of my favorite types of nonfiction. I've got true crime, medicine, business, the Middle East, & religion deep dives for you!
In this post discover the 10 elements of good nonfiction writing.
Want to know the often-overlooked first step to writing a nonfiction book? (We consider skipping this to be at the top of our “nonfiction mistakes” list.)
I don’t know about you, but when I used to think about homeschooling high school, it wasn’t just the thought of chemistry labs and calculus that shook my confidence. It was also writing. The thing about Charlotte Mason writing instruction is that most of us can’t intuit how to transition from written narration to the types of writing our children will be asked to do when they are grown. On the one hand, narration is a wonderful training ground for Continue Reading...
Want to know the often-overlooked first step to writing a nonfiction book? (We consider skipping this to be at the top of our “nonfiction mistakes” list.)
When people ask me for nonfiction recommendations, they often request nonfiction that reads like fiction. Here are some of my favorites...
Having trouble outlining your book? Use this free BookMap template to get clear on your ideas before you dive in.
For writers and readers alike, it's sometimes hard to tell the difference between fiction and nonfiction. Here's how.
This might sound a little crazy, but when I was in high school and university, I loved to make outlines. It was the stuff that came after the outline that I always had trouble with. But, because I had a detailed outline I could refer to, the writing was a lot easier than it would have been without a
Success as an author-expert starts with outlining a nonfiction book. Most of us were taught in school the old, clunky and SLOW way to outline. This video will show you how to outline a nonfiction book in the fastest way possible (IMHO). And its a quite different method. That’s because we approach outlining a book …
Have you wondered how to write a nonfiction book, but you're not sure how to begin and how to ensure readers will like what you write? Our step-by-step guide gives you all the details you need to get your book written and ready to publish.
Learn how to write a nonfiction book with this book writing guide, which includes 21 complete steps for writing a nonfiction book that sells!
An early lesson you want to teach your students is the difference in books that tell stories and books that give information. I have found that the best way to teach this is within context of different types of texts. Let's read more about some resources that I have used to teach the differences in the two types, as well as meet our pesky friend, the BOOK BANDIT! We begin the unit learning the text features of both types of texts by creating this anchor chart and using real text examples to discuss the differences between the two. I print the anchor chart from the pack as a poster, along with the two mini posters, for students to reference throughout the unit. I printed the sorting cards on cardstock and students helped me attach them to the anchor chart during our whole group discussion. They then completed their own sort below. This is great to glue into their reading journal for additional reference during the unit. I have lots of activities that I use included within the pack, but you don't have to use them in the order laid out in this blog post. ;) The activity below is one I like to always do with a new reading skill. My students become reading detectives during this cooperative group activity. Each group gets an envelope with the following recording sheets and a text, which might be a book or a passage, inside. They work with their group to decide if the book tells a story or gives information. They have to prove their thinking by providing three pieces of evidence from the text. After you do a few rotations of these throughout your unit, you can add it to a learning center for additional practice. Throughout the unit, I kept two bins of books labeled books that tell stories and books that give information. I referred to a few of them during the unit. But at the end of the unit, I threw them all over the classroom for students to walk in and find the next morning with a letter from the Book Bandit! He had came in and made a mess of our sorted books, so it was the students' challenge to sort them back into their proper bins. They had to provide three pieces of evidence from the text to prove their thinking and they attached it to a craft of the Book Bandit that they had made. This was such an engaging activity and a great assessment! I have included lots of other resources in the pack to use during your lessons. Throughout the unit, students pretended to be detectives, so they wore these little badges! We used these interactive notebook pieces for different texts. If you have Scholastic flyers, you can have students sort them in these flapbooks. This is another great quick assessment! We always finish our lessons with an exit ticket for me to quickly assess their understanding of the different features of these two types of texts. After completing a unit, I love to give my students new bookmarks for them to use during independent reading just to remind them of the previous skill taught so that they can independently apply those skills during reading. Click any of the pics in the blogpost to check this resource out! As always, happy teaching and happy reading!
Science! In many ways, we live in a thrilling era of scientific discovery. Some scientists are making breakthroughs in gene-editing and recycling orbital rockets. Others are perilously close to discovering life on other planets. Others have created…
how to write a nonfiction synopsis that shows a literary agent your book has what it takes to sell in the traditional publishing market.
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Science! In many ways, we live in a thrilling era of scientific discovery. Some scientists are making breakthroughs in gene-editing and recycling orbital rockets. Others are perilously close to discovering life on other planets. Others have created…
Writing a nonfiction book is different than fiction, which is why I decided—as a 6-time bestselling author—to teach you how to write a nonfiction book.
Are your students confused about the difference between fiction and nonfiction? This poster clears up the confusion. Print as an 8 1/2 by 11 document or 17 by 22 by selecting poster in your print menu. Please take a minute to rate this item after you download it. ...
Here's a hard look at three questions you must ask yourself before you start writing your nonfiction book, especially if you expect that book to be a success.
An essential handbook for nonfiction writers, featuring the trusted personal writing exercises of today's masters of creative non-fiction, including Gay Talese, Reza Aslan, John Matteson, Tilar Mazzeo, and many more Beginners and seasoned writers alike will relish the opportunity to use the top-notch writing exercises collected in Now Write Nonfiction culled from the personal stashes of bestselling and critically-acclaimed nonfiction authors like legendary essayist Gay Talese (Thy Neighbor's Wife), New York Times-bestselling authors Ishmael Beah (A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier) Reza Aslan (No God but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam), and Tilar Mazzeo (The Widow Clicquot), 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winner John Matteson (Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father), creative nonfiction icon Lee Gutkind (Creative Nonfiction magazine), and many other top memoirists, journalists, and teachers of creative nonfiction, these exercises offer fresh ideas for every facet of creative nonfiction writing, from pushing through writers block to organizing a story, capturing character to fine-tuning dialogue, injecting new life into a finished piece to starting a new work from scratch. Now Write Nonfiction will take you out into the field with creative nonfiction's master practitioners: *Peek inside Gay Talese's mind, as he shares the "writer's road map" he used to organize information for his classic book Thy Neighbor's Wife and his seminal essay "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold." *Learn from Reza Aslan why what you remember isn't as important as why you remember it the way you do *Explore the importance of cultural nuance in language with Ishmael Beah *Discover Lee Gutkind's simple trick, performed with a highlighter, that can help any writer identify whether their piece is truly showing action, or just telling An essential resource that will help writers of any level to hone their craft and get writing, Now WRite Nonfiction offers over 80 quick, simple excersises trusted by top nonfiction writers to get their pen moving
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**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 PEN/JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH AWARD FOR NONFICTION** **LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDALS FOR EXCELLENCE** **WINNER OF THE 2022 POZ AWARD FOR BEST IN LITERATURE** "An irresistibly readable and humane exploration of the barbarities of class...readers are gifted that most precious of things in these muddled times: a clear lens through which to see the world." —Naomi Klein, New York Times bestselling author of This Changes Everything and The Shock Doctrine From preeminent LGBTQ scholar, social critic, and journalist Steven W. Thrasher comes a powerful and crucial exploration of one of the most pressing issues of our times: how viruses expose the fault lines of society. Having spent a ground-breaking career studying the racialization, policing, and criminalization of HIV, Dr. Thrasher has come to understand a deeper truth at the heart of our society: that there are vast inequalities in who is able to survive viruses and that the ways in which viruses spread, kill, and take their toll are much more dependent on social structures than they are on biology alone. Told through the heart-rending stories of friends, activists, and teachers navigating the novel coronavirus, HIV, and other viruses, Dr. Thrasher brings the reader with him as he delves into the viral underclass and lays bare its inner workings. In the tradition of Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste and Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow, The Viral Underclass helps us understand the world more deeply by showing the fraught relationship between privilege and survival. Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781250796646 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Celadon Books Publication Date: 01-02-2024 Pages: 384 Product Dimensions: 8.19h x 5.49w x 0.79dAbout the Author STEVEN W. THRASHER, PHD holds the inaugural Daniel H. Renberg chair at Northwestern University’s Medill School, the first journalism professorship in the world created to focus on LGBTQ research. He is also a faculty member of Northwestern’s Institute of Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing. A columnist for Scientific American, his writing has been widely published by The New York Times, Nation, The Atlantic, Journal of American History, BuzzFeed News, Esquire and New York. In 2019, Out magazine named him one of the 100 most influential and impactful people of the year, and the Ford Foundation awarded him a grant for Creativity and Free Expression. An alumnus of media jobs with Saturday Night Live, the HBO film The Laramie Project and the NPR StoryCorps project, Dr. Thrasher has also been a staff writer for The Village Voice and a columnist for The Guardian. He holds a PhD in American Studies and divides his time between Chicago and New York. The Viral Underclass is his first book.Table of Contents Table of Contents Foreword Jonathan M. Metzl xi An Invitation: Sirens, Silence, Standby 1 Act I Blame 1 Mandingo: Racism 21 2 The Infinite Weight of Zero: Individualized Shame 43 3 Parasite: Capitalism 66 Act II Law and Order 4 Guilty Until Proven Innocent: The Law 85 5 From Athens to Appalachia: Austerity 107 6 Borderlands: Borders 131 7 Cages: The Liberal Carceral State 154 Act III Social Death 8 One in Two: Unequal Prophylaxis 177 9 Disability as Disposability: Ableism 193 10 Ride-Along: Speciesism 211 Act IV Reckoning 11 Release: The Myth of White Immunity 231 12 Compound Loss: Collective Punishment 247 Epilogue: Why Am I "Me" and You Are "You"? 258 Acknowledgments 271 Support Statement 277 Notes 279 Index 325 Show More
We're over the halfway point of Nonfiction November and it's time to share our favorite nonfiction books. This week is hosted by Leann at Shelf Aware. Head over the linkup for more best nonfiction lists! Since there are such a wide variety of nonfiction topics, it can be difficult to choose favorites. Maybe you like
In the wide world of writing prompts, the options are slim for creative nonfiction writers. Even the relevant prompts are often jumbled together with essay and fictional prompts, making it hard for writers to find what they really want. But not to worry. I present one whole hefty list of prompts just for creative nonfiction […]
Need a good story to keep you reading non-fiction? These six will pull you in just like a novel.
Here are daring true stories that will captivate you!
From witty essay collections to humorous celebrity memoirs, these reads are sure to keep you entertained.
Have you ever done a Rorschach test? It’s a psychological test that makes use of a person’s interpretation of inkblots so a psychologist can examine their personality and emotional functioning. Our brains are so desperate to make sense of everything that they will tell us that they see a picture in a spot of ink. […]
When I wrote my huge guide to book writing (Book Craft) I cut out all the nonfiction tips and strategies last minute; I’d already explored a bunch of material in my writing courses but wasn’t quite ready to share the nonfiction resources. Mainly, because, while I’m proud of the detailed 24 chapter novel outlining templates, […]
This is a list of the upcoming 2021 Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books, limited to hardcover new releases. I’ll be updating this list as more titles are announced, so stay tuned for more! Bill Gates’s How to Avoid a Climate Disaster and the The Cult of We, a book about the WeWork fiasco, are probably the ...
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