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Adolescents' Idea of Fiction in Their Own Writing

Abstract

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<p>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.</p>

Degree

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Name thesis:degree_name
Specialist in Education
Level thesis:degree_level
Thesis
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Teacher Education
Year
1992

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Chippendale, Nancy L.
Contributors dc:contributor
  • Dr. James Brewbaker
  • Dr. Anita Whitman
  • Dr. David Lane

Subjects

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Rights

Language dc:language
English

Identifiers

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OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:csuepress.columbusstate.edu:theses_dissertations-1639

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2026-07-24
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citation

Chippendale, Nancy L.. Adolescents' Idea of Fiction in Their Own Writing. Thesis thesis, 1992. https://csuepress.columbusstate.edu/theses_dissertations/681