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Some biases that writers bring to nonfiction works are briefly identified.

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As you discuss what biases do some writers bring to nonfiction work, I feel that writers definitely themselves to a piece of nonfiction. With that said, they naturally bring racial, cultural, gender, socioeconomic, and political preferences to their works as well.

Since nonfiction authors are writing about the truth as "they" see it, as in "not fiction," many ...

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