Date of Award
1992
Type
Thesis
Major
Specialist in Education
Degree Type
Specialist Degree in Education in Middle School Education
Department
Teacher Education
First Advisor
Dr. James Brewbaker
Second Advisor
Dr. Anita Whitman
Third Advisor
Dr. David Lane
Abstract
Twelve seventh-grade students in a selected county in Georgia served as subjects for interviews to determine why students choose realistic topics when writing fiction stories. The interviews revealed that the students wrote stories that reflected a part of their personal lives. The stories involved the authors in three distinct ways. Some stories were experiential and represented something that had happened to the author; others were experiential, but the writer had witnessed the event happening to an acquaintance; finally, media had influenced the writer to follow a story line. For some of the authors, this was a form of therapy, and for others, it was just a forum for interests, feelings and emotions.
Recommended Citation
Chippendale, Nancy L., "Adolescents' Idea of Fiction in Their Own Writing" (1992). Theses and Dissertations. 681.
https://csuepress.columbusstate.edu/theses_dissertations/681
Included in
Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research Commons, Junior High, Intermediate, Middle School Education and Teaching Commons, Language and Literacy Education Commons
