Date of Award
5-12-2005
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
English
First Advisor
Dr. Elizabeth Sanders Lopez - Chair
Second Advisor
Dr. Pearl A. McHaney
Third Advisor
Dr. Mary E. Hocks
Abstract
While numerous studies on academic writers composing for non-academic audiences exist, few if any studies address academic writers composing biographies for children. This self-reflective case study of a Eudora Welty biography for children provides insight into how an academic writer can effectively write in a specific genre (biography) for a specific audience (children) and into practical rhetorical choices such as choosing photographs and designing page layouts. The study also offers triangulated data regarding essential criteria of quality children’s literature as identified by experts in the field (editors, publishers, award committee members, scholars, and authors). The author’s findings include sixty-eight of the most often cited criteria, such as accuracy and the use of documented evidence, that serve as guidelines and a means of evaluating biographies written for children.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/1059457
Recommended Citation
Michaels, Cindy Sheffield, "Determining Quality through Audience, Genre, and the Rhetorical Canon: Imagining a Biography of Eudora Welty for Children." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2005.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/1059457