Lan Wu 68006356

Professor Jasmine Lee

Writing 39B bibliography

July 25,2015

Doctorow, Cory. For the Win. Young adult science fiction novel. May 2010.Print

Cory Doctorow, a science fiction author, introduces a story happened on a group of teenagers, who are interested in computer games, about how they do efforts to pursue their interests. Doctorow constructs this book into a young-adult fiction. In order to prove how many efforts the characters do for their dream. The Doctorow introduces that Matthew quits his job; Wei-Dong leaves home for China. Cory Doctorow has a huge number of young-adult audiences. His main point is to instruct the teenagers for remaining their dreams no matter how difficult it is.


Wikipedia. “Young-adult fiction”. April.2011. Web

Wikipedia argues that young-adult fiction is kind of published, written fiction, which concludes young-adult novel, juvenile novel, and young-adult book, focus on adolescents and young adults whose age range from sixteen years to twenty-five.

Wikipedia constructs a brief, clear academic definition in the Internet for the researchers. In order to prove the validity of the definition, Wikipedia cites many articles, journals, and essays, such as the journals of Teen Plays. The audience who want to research the young-adult fiction from Wikipedia can be relevant to students and writers, and some readers want to know more about novels. The purpose of Wikipedia to define young-adult fiction is to help the people who want to dig into the young-adult fiction to acquire a clear, valid, and correct knowledge.


“Genre Map”. Book Country. Web

Book Country publishes a map which contain genres of writing, while each piece of map has its specific details of genre, and the part of map will provide the relevant books to the researchers. Book Country constructs a special map which contain different kinds of genres through the internet. According to the distinction of different piece of map, Book Country has collected many knowledge and books of different genre such as mystery fiction, and category them to the relevant part.

The audience of Book Country is people who lose the direction to find the exactly interesting book currently. And this websites purpose to provide the right category for the readers and the readers can find many subgenres within these category they like.


Wendig, Chuck. “25 Things You Should Know About Young Adult Fiction”, Terribleminds. Web

Chuck Wendig, a novelist, screenwriter, and game designer, contends that there are 25 things about young-adult fiction people misunderstand or should have known. According to article “25 Things You Should Know About Young Adult Fiction”, Chuck Wendig publishes in the Internet through Terribleminds blog. Given the thoughts of 25 things about young adult fiction Chuck Wendig want to prove, he need to cite many articles to convince readers, such as “The Teen Brain Is A Work-In-Progress”.Chuck Wendig wants the readers to discuss about these topic, and the audiences mostly come from authors and writers who are interested in young adult fiction. Chuck Wendig publishes this article to blog in order to let other writers to know about the young adult fiction deeply and clearly. He wants some common misunderstanding can be solved.


Doctorow, Cory. “Nature’s Daredevils: Writing for Young Audiences”. Locus Magazine. July 2008, Print.

Doctorow Cory, a science fiction writer, shows how a writer feels about writing the young-adult fiction. This is a thesis-driven academic published in a magazine. In order to prove that he’s glad to be a young-adult fiction writer, he lists the example of how excited writing for the young will be and also how people help to make the young-adult fiction popular. Cory Doctorow’s audience can be a variety of people. A lot of people can read his article through the magazine.