Creating New Knowledge: Books that Demystify the Process

Autor/inn/en	Zarnowski, Myra; Turkel, Susan
Titel	Creating New Knowledge: Books that Demystify the Process
Quelle	In: Journal of Children's Literature, 38 (2012) 1, S.28-34 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1521-7779
Schlagwörter	Nonfiction; Grade 5; Rhetorical Invention; Inferences; Authors; Writing for Publication; Cognitive Style; Epistemology; Inquiry; Creative Writing; Educational Quality; Scholarship; Reading Materials; Textbook Content; Textbook Standards + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Non-fiction; Nichtfiktionaler Text; School year 05; 5. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 05; Inference; Inferenz; Author; Autor; Autorin; Cognitive styles; Kognitiver Stil; Erkenntnistheorie; Kreatives Schreiben; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Scholarships; Stipendium; Lehrbuchtext; Schulbuchempfehlungen
Abstract	In the March/April issue of "The Horn Book Magazine," author and editor Marc Aronson wrote a lightening rod of an essay about nonfiction literature. In the article, he claimed that some "new" nonfiction is groundbreaking because it shows "new knowledge as it is taking shape" (2011, p. 57). He referred to authors of this new nonfiction as "explorers" and distinguished them from other authors whom he described as "translators" of existing knowledge. According to Aronson, a crucial difference between the two kinds of nonfiction--the "new" and the "old"--is that author-explorers speculate about the meaning of their material, while author-translators do not. Not surprisingly, Aronson's article caused quite a stir among nonfiction authors. The immediate response of nonfiction writers was hostile, hurt, and somewhat angry. Authors whose books do not explicitly detail their processes of seeking out information, shaping it, and speculating on it resisted the implication that their work was "old" style nonfiction. In this article, the authors describe the heated discussion of the "new" nonfiction that is taking place among nonfiction authors and share fifth graders' responses to this genre. (Contains 2 figures.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10