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  1. The Total Library: Non-Fiction 1922-1986.(Review)(Brief Article): An article from: The Modern Language Review by Verity Smith, 2001-04-01
  2. 'States of Desire,' or the sissy's revenge. (non-fiction by Edmund White): An article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction by Andrew Holleran, 1996-09-22
  3. Stranger in the Forest (Methuen Non-fiction) by Eric Hansen, 2001-04-05
  4. The Hardest Parts: Techniques for Effective Non-Fiction by Thomas Fensch, 1984-12
  5. Non-Fiction Books by Michael Legat, 2001-11
  6. Framework Non-fiction by Richard Broomhead, 2001-05-17
  7. Black Australian Literature: A Bibliography of Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Oral Traditions and Non-Fiction, Including Critical Commentary, 1900-91.: An article from: Australian Literary Studies by Chris Tiffin, 1999-10-01
  8. Nelson Thornes Framework English 1. Skills in Non-Fiction (Nelson Thornes Framework Engli) by Geoff Reilly, Wendy Wren, 2002-08
  9. Where's that renaissance?(in children's non-fiction publishing)(Editorial): An article from: The Horn Book Magazine by Roger Sutton, 1996-11-01
  10. Motoring with Mohammed (Methuen Non-fiction) by Eric Hansen, 2001-04-05
  11. Theory of fiction: a non-Western narrative tradition.: An article from: Narrative by Ming Dong Gu, 2006-10-01
  12. Toward an anthropology of place in migrant writing: place, non-place, and "other spaces" in fiction by Regine Robin. : An article from: Quebec Studies by Anthony Purdy, 2005-03-22
  13. A Son of the Forest and Other Writings by William Apess, 1997-11
  14. Agony and the Ego: The Art and Strategy of Fiction Writing Explained

121. Absolute Write Store: Nonfiction Writing: The Basics With George Sheldon
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122. Wiley::The Art Of Creative Nonfiction: Writing And Selling The Literature Of Rea
Wiley Society Lifestyle Social Sciences Liberal Arts Communications The Art of Creative Nonfiction writing and Selling the Literature of Reality.
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123. Medical Non Fiction 2004
in the areas of adult fiction and nonfiction, young adult Wiley Sons Inc., a leadingnonfiction publisher. SEAK Medical Fiction writing for Physicians 2004.
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Medical Nonfiction Writing For Physicians provides hands-on and practical training on how to write medical nonfiction and get published. Attendees will have the opportunity to get all their questions answered. There will be numerous writing exercises and networking opportunities. Attendees will have an opportunity to get their writing, query letters, and proposals reviewed and evaluated. NOTE: Course attendees will get the most out of the course if they bring samples of their writing for the writing groups and faculty to critique. Samples may include a magazine query letter, an outline for a nonfiction book, a formal, nonfiction book proposal, a previously published work, and unpublished writing samples. LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Following this course, attendees will be able to:

124. Salt Institute For Documentary Studies - Nonfiction Writing At Salt
Your browser does not support javascript. Please use the text menu untilyou are able to upgrade your browser. NONFICTION writing AT SALT.
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Your browser does not support javascript. Please use the text menu until you are able to upgrade your browser. NONFICTION WRITING AT SALT Using Maine subjects , students in this professional skills training course practice a genre called the "literature of fact." Combining techniques of field collection and literary interpretation of real subjects, writers create stories about the fabric of everyday life. The class emphasizes careful observation, listening, structure, organization of material, rewriting and editing skills.
Students produce a finished article of publishable quality. The strongest articles are selected for publication in Salt Magazine . Catalogued original field materials, recorded interviews, transcriptions, field notes, graphs and charts are housed in the Salt Archive Click here to see an example of an article produced in that was chosen for publication in the Spring 2002 Magazine.

125. Salt Institute For Documentary Studies - Alumni Resources: Nonfiction Writing &
browser. ALUMNI RESOURCES NONFICTION writing JOURNALISM. GRADUATEAND MFA PROGRAMS FOR JOURNALISM AND CREATIVE NONFICTION. Columbia
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GRADUATE AND MFA PROGRAMS FOR JOURNALISM AND CREATIVE NONFICTION Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Deadline to apply: December 15th
Contact: www.jrn.columbia.edu University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
Offers two years Masters degree in Journalism,Newspaper, Television, Documentary Photojournalism, Magazine, Radio, New media, International reporting
Deadline to apply: January
Contact: www.journalism.berkeley.edu University of Wisconsin, Madison: School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Offers either Masters or PhD in Mass Communication
Contact: www.journalism.wisc.edu Northwestern University: Medill School of Journalism
Offers Masters in journalism (9-12 month program)
Contact: www.medill.northwestern.edu

126. Nonfiction Writing Reference
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How to Write and Sell Your First Nonfiction Book
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127. Nonfiction Writing Reference
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Format: Hardcover Compare prices for this book Thinking like Your Editor: How to Write Great Serious Nonfictionand Get It Published AUTHOR: Susan Rabiner, Alfred Fortunato, Alfredo Fortunato ISBN: 0393038920 Publish Date: February 2002 Format: Hardcover Compare prices for this book Writing for Design Professionals AUTHOR: Kliment, Stephen A. ISBN: 0393730263 Format: Hardcover Compare prices for this book Writer's Reference AUTHOR: Manufactured by Bedford Books ISBN: 0312412622 Publish Date: January 2003 Format: Paperback Compare prices for this book Nonfiction Book Proposals Anybody Can Write: How to Get a Contract and Advance Before Writing Your Book AUTHOR: Elizabeth Lyon, Natasha Kern

128. Writing Corner.com
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129. Inside Nonfiction Writing, Editing, Publishing, And Agents
writing nonfiction, literary agents, book proposals, query letters, publishing How can you get publishers to take your great idea seriously?
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130. 2002 Clarence Cason Award For Nonfiction Writing
The award, presented by the University of Alabama journalism departmenthonors exemplary nonfiction writing over a productive career.
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2002 Cason award winner
Acclaimed historian and social activist Wayne Flynt is the recipient of the 2002 Clarence Cason Writing Award.
The award, presented by the University of Alabama journalism department honors exemplary nonfiction writing over a productive career. Winners have strong connections to Alabama, reflected either in their backgrounds or their work.
Flynt will receive the award at a banquet on Wednesday, March 13, at the Sheraton Four Points Hotel in Tuscaloosa. There will be a reception at 6 p.m, with dinner to follow at 7. The banquet is open to the public and tickets are $30 each.
Two panels will complete the symposium. One will look at Alabama and its place in the world. The other will examine the 2002 state elections. After lunch, participants are invited to attend a political forum in which four of the leading gubernatorial candidates will present their plans for state constitutional reform.
The symposium is open to the public. Tickets for the symposium, separate from the banquet, are $20 each and should be purchased in advance from the journalism department.
Previous winners of the award and the year received were: Gay Talese, journalist and author, 1998; Edward O. Wilson, Pulitzer Prize winning scientist/author, 1999; Howell Raines, Pulitzer Prize winning executive editor of The New York Times and author, 2000; Albert Murray, blues and jazz writer and author, 2001. Recipients receive a $3,000 cash award and a plaque.

131. The State Of Narrative Nonfiction Writing
Harvard University Vol. 54 No. 3 Fall 2000. View Issue Table of Contents.The State of Narrative Nonfiction writing. On May 6, 2000
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The State of Narrative Nonfiction Writing
On May 6, 2000, the Nieman Foundation and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism convened a panel of journalists to discuss narrative journalism. This event occurred during a two-day conference focused on nonfiction writing that was part of the 2000 Lukas Prize Project Conference. This project honors the work and life of J. Anthony Lukas, who won two Pulitzers, the second for his narrative book "Common Ground," in which he explored the personal and political dynamics of Boston's school desegregation crisis through the lens of three families' experiences. Robert Vare, senior editor at The Atlantic Monthly who teaches a seminar on narrative nonfiction writing at the Nieman Foundation, moderated a panel discussion about narrative writing in books, magazines and newspapers. Participants on the panel included Walter Kirn, contributor to Time and literary editor of GQ, Alma Guillermoprieto, author and staff writer for The New Yorker, Michael Kelly, editor in chief of The Atlantic Monthly, and Jack Hart, writing coach for The Oregonian. Edited excerpts from their remarks follow. Robert Vare : Welcome to the third and final panel of the J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Nonfiction Writers Conference. Our panel will attempt to assess the health and well-being of long-form narrative writing in the worlds of books, magazines and newspapers.

132. Ma Course In Nonfiction Writing
Creative and Critical Nonfiction writing McKenzie Wark (w)9850 8785 (h)9692 0830(f)9850 8240 (r)W6A 929 (e)mwark@laurel.ocs.mq.ed.au (url)www.mcs.mq.edu.au
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Aim: of this course is (1) to investigate the context within which nonfiction writing occurs in Australia, its influence, or lack of it, the ways it circulates and the way people discuss it and criticise it. This is to provide you with a context in which to think about your own writing. (2) Which is the second aim - the production of an original piece of nonfiction writing.
Assessment: There are four components to this. (1) 20 minute class presentation 20%. (2) 2,000 word review essay, 20%. (3) first draft writing project, 20%, and (4) second draft writing project, 40%.
Due Dates: To be negotiated in week one.
Lecture and presentation series:
1. General introductory stuff.
2. Lecture: the essay form. Reading: VR introduction and chapter 1.
3. Lecture: The storyteller. Reading: VR chapter 8. Presentation: On Humphrey McQueen's Suspect History or Manning Clark's Speaking Out of Turn. 4. Lecture: The trouble maker. Reading: VR chapter 9. Presentation: On Les A. Murray's A Working Forest or Paul Sheean's new book, if its out.

133. Teachit's English Teaching Resources
writing skills. writing to argue, advise, persuade. writing to inform, explain,describe. Year 7 non fiction writing NLS. 58.5 k, NLS compliant scheme of work,
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134. Teachit's English Teaching Resources
Shrek. Soap operas (English and Drama). The Truman Show. Time travel films. Travelwriting. Year 7 non fiction writing NLS. 58.5 k, NLS compliant scheme of work,
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135. Choosing Award-winning Nonfiction Writing For Children: Three Perspectives
Choosing Awardwinning Nonfiction writing for Children Three Perspectives. There are several awards now given for nonfiction writing for children.
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Return to Perspetives Choosing Award-winning Nonfiction Writing for Children: Three Perspectives “Imagination, invention, selection, language, form—these are just as important to the making of a good book of biography, history, or science as to the making of a piece of fiction,” wrote Milton Meltzer in 1976. At the time that Meltzer’s article, “Where Do All the Prizes Go? The Case for Nonfiction,” appeared in the February 1976 issue of The Horn Book Magazine From Cover to Cover: Evaluating and Reviewing Children’s Books (HarperCollins), author Kathleen T. Horning states: “Whatever their motivation for reading nonfiction, children deserve to have books of information that are accurate, engaging, and well written.” Nonfiction awards help to identify the best of those “accurate, engaging, and well written” works of nonfiction for children. Here is a glimpse at how those award winners are chosen. * There are several awards now given for nonfiction writing for children. For further information about these and other nonfiction awards, the Council suggested asking your school or local children’s librarian. Additional information can also be found on the Internet. The Washington Post -Children’s Book Guild Award for Nonfiction
Jewell Stoddard
Chair , 2002 Award Committee TheWashington Post -Children’s Book Guild Award for Nonfiction is granted each year to an “author or author/illustrator whose total body of work has contributed significantly to the quality of nonfiction for children.” The Children’s Book Guild is a sixty-five-year-old organization of authors and illustrators of at least two published works and a selection of members from the community of librarians and children’s literature specialists of Washington, D. C. The Guild presented its first award to David Macaulay in 1977. In 1982

136. Introducing Nonfiction Writing In The Early Grades
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It's never too early for students to begin writing nonfiction. The author demonstrates ways to help students understand fiction versus nonfiction, brainstorm topics, do research, and organize information using a web. From there, she shows how her students use information to create their own nonfiction books. Loaded with lessons, activities, and reproducibles, this is a resource you'll turn to again and again. 80 pp.
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137. Wiley Europe::The Art Of Creative Nonfiction: Writing And Selling The Literature
Society Lifestyle Social Sciences Liberal Arts Communications TheArt of Creative Nonfiction writing and Selling the Literature of Reality.
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by Peter Rubie Literary Agents: What They Do, How They Do It, and How to Find and Work with the Right One for You, Revised and Expanded (Paperback) by Michael Larsen The Quotable Angel: A Treasury of Inspiring Quotations Spanning the Ages (Hardcover) by Lee Ann Chearney (Editor) Ludicrous Laws and Mindless Misdemeanors (Paperback) by Lance S. Davidson Modern Bride Complete Wedding Planner: The #1 Bridal Magazine Helps You Create the Wedding of Your Dreams (Paperback) by Cele Goldsmith Lalli, Stephanie H. Dahl The Complete Guide to Writer's Groups, Conferences, and Workshops (Paperback) by Eileen Malone Communications The Art of Creative Nonfiction: Writing and Selling the Literature of Reality Lee Gutkind ISBN: 0-471-11356-5 Paperback 224 pages January 1997 Add to Cart Description Table of Contents Author Information The challenge of creative nonfiction is to write the truth in a style that is as accurate and informative as reportage, yet as personal, provocative, and dramatic as fiction. In this one-of-a-kind guide, award-winning author, essayist, teacher, and editor Lee Gutkind gives you concise, pointed advice on every aspect of writing and selling your work, including:

138. Education Book Review/Is That A Fact?
Education Book Reviews Stead, Tony (2002) Is That a Fact? TeachingNonfiction writing K3. Portland, Maine Stenhouse Publishers.
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Stead, Tony (2002) Is That a Fact?: Teaching Nonfiction Writing K-3. Portland, Maine: Stenhouse Publishers
Efforts at instructing young writers have traditionally focused on fiction forms: narrative, poetry, diaries and journals. Yet, the writing required of students as they progress academically is clearly nonfiction. Author Tony Stead, a literacy consultant and former classroom teacher, shares his belief that young students are capable, highly capable in fact, of writing nonfiction. Not to the exclusion of fiction, Stead notes, but as one component of a well-rounded writing instruction program.
Stead's book, Is That a Fact? , explores how teachers can incorporate nonfiction writing into their K-3 curriculum. Divided into two sections, the book first discusses theory, outlining the need for and reasons behind nonfiction writing instruction for young students. Here he also talks about how to help youngsters with research and gives guidelines on spelling instruction. Section two tackles the practical, looking at specific methods, techniques and assignments that have been successfully used in classrooms. A question and answer chapter rounds out the volume.
Stead strongly believes that interests motivate young students and that their interests can form the basis for their nonfiction writing. Their natural curiosity to know and learn about the sun, worms, and all sorts of things, provides a perfect framework for nonfiction writing. Writing nonfiction introduces students to the concepts of planning, researching, writing, revising, and publishing, important writing elements students need throughout their school career. Introducing these concepts to lower elementary students at an understandable level is what Stead's book is all about.

139. Sloan-C - Sloan-C Catalog
Writers Program in Nonfiction writing. Institution University ofWashington (WA). Degree Certificate (N/A). Program URL http//www
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140. Nonfiction Writing: Write And Sell Your Work, School Of Continuing Education, Un
Nonfiction writing Nonfiction writing Write and Sell Your Work, Learn theessentials of information gathering, writing and selling nonfiction work.
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