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Creative nonfiction: true stories of people involved in fifty years of conservation of the orang-utan in Sarawak, Malaysia by Yin, Christina Amanda Chueh Ping

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Using interactive nonfiction narrative to enhance competence in the informed consent process with 3-year-old children by Mayne, F., Howitt, C., Rennie, Leonie

“…Here, we report the findings of the pilot trial of a new approach that used an ‘interactive nonfiction narrative’ to enhance young children’s capacity to provide meaningful informed consent. …”
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A Body Is Always Reaching: Essay by Godfrey, Madison

“…An earlier version of this essay was shortlisted for the 2021 Deakin University Nonfiction Prize.…”
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Crossing the shadow line: collaborative creative writing about grief by Robertson, Rachel, Kadmos, H.

“…Aiming to discover whether collaborative creative nonfiction writing can broaden the representation of experiences of grief and address some of the ethical challenges of writing about vulnerable others, we draw on the scholarship on memoir writing and collaboration and analyse our own process and challenges against this literature. …”
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Strategi Penterjemahan Elemen Budaya Bukan Material Dalam The World Is Flat : A Brief History Of The Globalized World In The Twenty-First Century Ke Dalam Bahasa Melayu by Husin, Norhazlina

“…This research studies the translation strategies of nonmaterial cultural elements in the nonfiction text The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Globalized World in the Twenty-First Century (The World is Flat) by Thomas Friedman (2005) into Malay, Dunia Sama Rata: Sejarah Ringkas Dunia Global Abad Ke-21 …”
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Gaya Kewartawanan Baru Dalam Novel Pilihan Abdullah Hussain by Samat, Talib

“…Xlll The first chapter explains the introductory part of this thesis, while the second chapter discusses the appearance and the development of the theory of this new journalism style, the philosophy behind it, important figures of this new journalism style and nonfiction novel,definition and characteristics of this new journalism style, and the difference between the new journalism style and the conventional style of journalism.…”
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Cartographies of silence: mapping concepts of silence and their contexts by Brown, Melissa Shani

“…These theoretical perspectives are explored also through a number of cultural texts - creative nonfiction, short stories, film, poetry, and also testimony. …”
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Referential multimodality in “animated documentaries” and “documentary games” by Thon, Jan-Noël

“…From John Grierson’s influential early definition of documentary as “the creative treatment of actuality” through documentary studies’ reconstruction of the multitude of existing forms to philosophers’ attempts to develop comprehensive accounts of documentary as a specific kind of nonfiction film, the concept of documentary has been both fiercely contested and, through these debates, continuously expanded to refer to an ever more extensive corpus of works. …”
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Literary Traditions: English in Malaysia and Singapore (Column 3) by Quayum, Mohammad Abdul

“…In fact, English is so widely used in the country and has become such an integral part of the society, that the concern there, unlike in Malaysia, is, as Thumboo explains, “how to prevent other mother tongues from weakening.”Notwithstanding this fear, which is a valid and legitimate one, especially since language is associated with identity, writers in English have taken full advantage of the situation and have made significant advance in all the genres – poetry, fiction, nonfiction and drama. In the early years of independence, some scepticism was expressed towards literature (poetry in particular) as it was seen as a “luxury” (Lee Kuan Yew's phrase) that Singapore could ill afford. …”
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“Be patient, dear mother … wait for me”: the neo-infirmity film, female illness and contemporary cinema by Gallagher, Mark

“…This essay compares selected texts from contemporary Hollywood cinema, alongside three parallel discourses that also deploy melodramatic modes of articulation: nonfiction amateur video as relayed via television news programs, international art cinema, and US independent cinema. …”
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Graphic novels: enticing teenagers into the library by Snowball, Clare

“…Graphic novels are bound paperback or hardcover works in comic-book form and cover the full range of fiction genres, manga (Japanese comics), and also nonfiction. Teenagers are believed to read less in their free time than their younger counterparts. …”
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Construction of a revisionary self in transformative contact zones in Ahdaf Soueif's novel by Fekri, Neda

“…In fact, my study fills a niche that is critical so that Soueif’s novels would be appreciated more on the background of her own theoretical points explored in her nonfiction. The construction of this common ground occurs in what Pratt terms the contact zone. …”
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From visual education to 21st century literacy: an analysis of the Ministry of Education's post-war film production experiment and its relevance to recent film education strategies by Southern, Alex

“…In 1943 the Ministry of Education took the decision to sponsor the production of an experimental programme of nonfiction films specifically to be used as ‘instructional’ teaching aids in the secondary classroom. …”
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Reflections on life by Sunday, Star

“…MALAYSIANS love reading about the lives of others, it seems.The Popular The Star Readers' Choice Awards (RCA) is the only local literary award that is driven by popular choice, as the nominees are fiction and nonfiction books that sold the most at Popular and Harris bookstores the previous year.Meaning, the nominee list is often an indication of what Malaysians like to read. …”
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Solitude as an act of hedonism in Bryce Andrews’ Badluck Way by Mohd Zaimin Haris Fathillah, Ravichandran Vengadasamy

“…In numerous literary texts, solitude has been the pivotal entry point to ascertain and expound both fictional and nonfictional characters’ actions and behaviours. The same can be said about hedonism. …”
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Issues, Challenges, and solutions to improve customer satisfaction of Kedah Public Library by Taib, Che Azlan, Iteng, Rosman, Mad Lazim, Halim, Zakaria, Shahizan Affandi

“…It also has a non-circulating reference collection, and usually focuses on popular material such as fiction and movies, as well as educational and nonfiction materials of interest to the general public. …”
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