Date of Last Revision
2023-05-02 19:04:33
Major
Adolescent to Young Adult - Integrated Language Arts
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts in Education
Date of Expected Graduation
Spring 2016
Abstract
This project explores the field of young adult literature, while also discovering the creative writing process required to develop a young adult novel. The project is organized into three separate parts. Part One focuses on young adult writers and the literature they create, along with the benefits of using these novels in a high school classroom. To benefit my future career as a future writing teacher, I researched the process required to write a fiction novel, specifically one in the young adult genre. Within this section, sources are cited such as experienced teachers and the scholarship on young adult literature. Part Two includes diary entries I kept as I wrote and developed my own young adult novel. These pages are comprised of my thoughts and discoveries not only as a writer, but as a future educator as well. For example, I found that certain tools I used to develop my own themes and characters could also be used in my future classroom as part of a writing workshop. This section also includes a series of major findings and insights I have learned through the writing process. Part Three contains an excerpt from the Young Adult novel I developed over the course of the Fall 2015 semester.
Research Sponsor
Dr. Harold Foster
First Reader
Dr. Denise Stuart
Second Reader
Dr. Angela Bilia
Recommended Citation
Westfall, Emily, "Young Adult Fiction Writing in the Classroom: Emily’s Investigation and Insights" (2016). Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects. 361.
https://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/honors_research_projects/361