Behind the Books: A Look at Specialized Nonfiction
Update June 24, 2024: My thinking about nonfiction classification has evolved since I wrote this post, but I’ve decided not to delete it because there’s value in looking back at my past ideas. For my current thinking, please see the book 5 Kinds of Nonfiction as well as information on my website. For the last few weeks, I’ve […]
Behind the Books: A Look at Survey Books
Update June 24, 2024: My thinking about nonfiction classification has evolved since I wrote this post, but I’ve decided not to delete it because there’s value in looking back at my past ideas. For my current thinking, please see the book 5 Kinds of Nonfiction as well as information on my website. Last week, I began discussing what […]
Behind the Books: A Look at Life Stories
Update June 24, 2024: My thinking about nonfiction classification has evolved since I wrote this post, but I’ve decided not to delete it because there’s value in looking back at my past ideas. For my current thinking, please see the book 5 Kinds of Nonfiction as well as information on my website. Last year at this time, I […]
Behind the Books: Classifying Nonfiction Is Messy
Update June 24, 2024: My thinking about nonfiction classification has evolved considerably since I wrote this post, but I’ve decided not to delete it because there’s value in looking back at my past ideas. For my current thinking, please see the book 5 Kinds of Nonfiction as well as information on my website. Since October, I’ve been talking […]
Behind the Books: What CCSS Says About Informational Text Types
In last week’s post, I described four nonfiction categories that can help readers and writers make sense of the vast array of nonfiction book being published today. They were survey, specialized, concept, and biography/autobiography. As I gather information for the science books I write, I often encounter instances in which scientists disagree about how to […]
Behind the Books: Nonfiction Categories
Update June 24, 2024: My thinking about nonfiction classification has evolved since I wrote this post, but I’ve decided not to delete it because there’s value in looking back at my past ideas. For my current thinking, please see the book 5 Kinds of Nonfiction as well as information on my website. During a Twitter chat this summer, […]