Posted by qpen on June 5, 2010
From Booklist
You would think a guide through the ethical thicket that awaits creative nonfiction writers would have clearer answers. But writer and editor Gutkind seems positively Swiss in his neutrality on the simmering issues that flared into open warfare during the James Frey debacle. “Listen, I can’t answer all these questions with rules and regulations,” he tells a college audience in an anecdote from the introduction. “I am not the creative nonfiction police!” R (more…)
Posted by qpen on May 30, 2010
Item #: SHS0439513685. Nonfiction Writing: From the Inside OutHelp students write nonfiction using the techniques of top authors. This book combines writers’ advice with many lessons on craft. Includes assessment and management advice, 7 x 9. 336 pages. Grades 3 and up.Customers also search for: Classroom;Resource Books;SCHOLASTIC;Teacher’s Aids, 078073513680
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Posted by qpen on May 12, 2010
Review
Travelwriter Marketletter Read this before you write your next book –it will streamline your activities. Sandy Whelchel, National Writers Association Creative people are more productive when they have the best tools. Get the best computer you can afford and this book. Ray Newton, National Coordinator, Reader’s Digest Writing Workshops Dan shares his experience and insights in a readable, clear and educational way. (more…)
Posted by qpen on May 6, 2010
Get kids reading nonfiction with these 30 high-interest passages on topics such as animals, space, how things are made, and more. Comprehension questions, a graphic organizer, and a writing prompt accompany each selection, providing easily-graded, purposeful homework that’s linked to the standards. A must-have resource for any teacher who wants to include more nonfiction in the curriculum—and a great companion to Teaching Students to Read Nonfiction: Grades 2-4.
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Posted by qpen on May 4, 2010
Amazon.com Review
Like eating a well-conceived meal at an exceptional restaurant, reading this book is a wholly satisfying experience. Less-skilled chefs may have failed to get the book’s many disparate elements to cohere, but, in the hands of editors Carolyn Forché and Philip Gerard, those ingredients sing. Brenda Miller compares the shape of a lyric essay with that of a loaf of challah bread; Nicholas S. Hentoff and Harvey A. Silverglate offer a primer on legal land mines. Chr (more…)
Posted by qpen on April 18, 2010
Review
“A virtual Merck Manual for story doctors, filled with insightful diagnoses and effective prescriptions.” (William G. Connolly, co-author of The New York Times Style Manual of Style and Usage )“Ailing writers, not to worry. There is a Story Doctor in the house. His name is Frank Flaherty, and his powerful medicine is on every page of The Elements of Story. It belongs on your shelf right there next to that other Elements book.” (Roy Peter Clark, author of “Writing (more…)
Posted by qpen on April 6, 2010
Inspiring stories and practical advice from America?s most respected journalists The country?s most prominent journalists and nonfiction authors gather each year at Harvard?s Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism. Telling True Stories presents their best advice?covering everything from finding a good topic, to structuring narrative stories, to writing and selling your first book. More than fifty well-known writers offer their most powerful tips, including: (more…)
Posted by qpen on April 4, 2010
Breathe life into your nonfiction writing using the wisdom and advice in this inspirational guide every writer should own When the poet Emily Dickinson wrote, “Tell all the Truth but tell it Slant,” she provided today?s writers of creative nonfiction some sound advice: tell the truth but don?t become mere transcribers of day-to-day life. Artistic truth offers a depth and vibrancy that goes beyond the everyday. But how do we, as writers, move beyond cold fact to create elega (more…)
Posted by qpen on March 31, 2010
Amazon.com Review
Whether you write an occasional professional letter or a daily newspaper column, William Zinsser’s On Writing Well should be required reading. Simplicity is Zinsser’s mantra: he preaches a stripped-down writing style, strong and clear. He has no patience for excess (most use of adjectives and adverbs, he writes, just adds clutter) or tired phraseology (for instance, he’d like to outlaw all leads involving those “future archaeologists” most often found “st (more…)
Posted by qpen on November 25, 2009
From Publishers Weekly
Freelance journalists come together to offer advice on their solitary business in this handbook for working, and aspiring, writers. Each of the 26 chapters is penned by a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and their subjects range from how to stock a home office and how to hire an assistant to how to brainstorm new ideas. Lisa Collier Cool’s essay on writing a successful magazine query brims with smart suggestions, as does Richard A. (more…)
Posted by qpen on November 11, 2009
Developed by a widely published writer and humorist, these 15-minute reproducible activities teach key nonfiction writing skills—and have major kid appeal! Activities cover all the essentials, including finding and developing a topic, describing vividly, using quotations, organizing ideas effectively, strengthening sentence structure, and many more. For use with Grades 4–6.
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Posted by qpen on November 5, 2009
Writing nonfiction represents a big step for most students. Most young writers are not intimidated by personal narrative, fiction, or even poetry, but when they try to put together a “teaching book,” report, or persuasive essay, they often feel anxious and frustrated.JoAnn Portalupi and Ralph Fletcher believe that young nonfiction writers supply plenty of passion, keen interest, and wonder. Teachers can provide concrete strategies to help students scaffold their ideas as they wr (more…)
Posted by qpen on November 2, 2009
Writing nonfiction represents a big step for most students. Most young writers are not intimidated by personal narrative, fiction, or even poetry, but when they try to put together a “teaching book,” report, or persuasive essay, they often feel anxious and frustrated.JoAnn Portalupi and Ralph Fletcher believe that young nonfiction writers supply plenty of passion, keen interest, and wonder. Teachers can provide concrete strategies to help students scaffold their ideas as they wr (more…)
