Nonfiction

know that he might be a messed up father marrying a girl that wants to divorce him and his kids growing old to hate him. all because of decisions he is making right now. The real life situations don't always have to be represented through nonfiction because nonfiction doesn't tell you everything it only shows you…

The Orbis Pictus Award is the most prestigious award given to authors that successfully create a nonfiction book for children. The authors are celebrated with this award if their work meets a certain set of criterion – accuracy (of the person/event they focus on), style (interesting and stimulating writing), organization, design (attractive details), and usefulness in the classroom – and only one author is honored with the award each year. The book must be written with the purpose of sharing…

a picture in the minds of the reader. If the reader can see what you are writing about they are more likely to remain interested, believe and remember what is written. This is great advice for the fiction writer, but how can this idea be used in nonfiction writing? This paper, delves into writing specifically in the field of nursing. Writing in the medical field is typically for educational purposes, either presented in books, research articles or journals. Consequently, the field of nursing…

patients, Henrietta Lack’s doctors are a significant case; the doctors refused to discuss the taking of her cells to Lacks or Lacks family until after profit was being made from the cells taken from Lacks. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is a nonfiction writing by American Rebecca Skloots that took over a…

Did you know that about 280,000 people die annually due to being overweight? Most people don’t know how eating unhealthy can cause major difficulties in their later years. Eric Schlosser is an investigative journalists, who wrote the nonfiction book called “Fast Food Nation”. The book is about the global and local influences the United States’ fast food industries have. Although some may argue that the corporations should led a reform of the US food system, overall, the government should take…

illustrations throw a twist in the so-called “norm” of children’s nonfiction being that the genre of books usually contains real photographs and this one contains hand drawn illustrations. These illustrations make the book more appealing to this particular audience since the books they usually read are picture books, and now that a factual book is made with picture illustrations, children get the best of both worlds. CRITICAL ANALYSIS: This nonfiction book, in particular, does a great job of…

Nonfiction books, especially if they concern hot topics of the moment, can bring high advances and earn royalties spread over a longer window of time. However, most books—especially those with information that becomes quickly dated—go out of print within a year of publication. Scientific and technical Authors generally earn more money than most other nonfiction…

He also claims throughout Lifespan of a Fact that it is not nonfiction or a journalistic piece (D’Agata, Fingal). D’Agata takes liberties while writing his piece and changes some of the facts to make the young boy who committed suicide, Levi—to make his life seem more interesting and make his suicide more unique and…

The fame that accompanies “The Hot Zone,” into it’s 23rd anniversary is not unjustified. Preston presents an eloquent history of the Ebola virus in a manner that is easy to follow and keeps the reader interested. Preston takes it upon himself, through thoughtful descriptions, to thrust the reader into the setting of his characters. From the silvery gray-green olive trees in the forests of Mount Elgon to the insufferable heat and stench of monkeys at the Reston monkey house, the reader has to…

Most people believe that a nonfiction novel is just a true story that includes real people and real events, but what most people do not know is that a nonfiction novel is supposed to be written so it can withstand the test of time. Truman Capote once said in an interview that a nonfiction novel needs to have “a timeless quality about the cause and events.” The novel Unbroken, written by Laura Hillenbrand is a New York Times bestseller that tells an inspiring story of a young soldier in World War…