Bibliography Draft

Doctorow, Cory. “Cory Doctorow: Nature’s Daredevils: Writing for Young Audiences.” Locus Magazine, 1 July 2008. Web. 26 July 2015.<http://www.locusmag.com/Features/2008/07/cory-doctorow-natures-daredevils.html>

Cory Doctorow, a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author, argues about the significance of writing for young-adults and the effects it has on them. This online article is about young adult fiction and is intended inform an audience about how empowering and unique writing for young adults can be. In order to demonstrate this point, Doctorow mentions the growing sales and increase in interest of young adult books. The audience Doctorow targets is everyone because he just wants to let them know the significance of young-adult fiction.

Doctorow, Cory. For the Win. New York: Tor, 2010. Print.

Cory Doctorow, a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author, demonstrates how young adult fiction can serve the purpose of educating the youth. Doctorow’s book falls under the Young Adult Fiction and serves the purpose of educating young adults. Doctorow does this by creating a storyline with young-adult characters experiencing taking part in the economy, but virtually. The audience is primarily young adults and Doctorow’s intentions are to inform the youth that they have potential with economics even at a young age.

“Genre Map.” , Literary Map. Book Country. Web. 26 July 2015. <http://www.bookcountry.com/ReadAndReview/Books/GenreMap/>.

This genre map is from Book Country, which is meant to help readers find books in specific genres. This page on a website allows readers to look deeper into what books fall under certain genres. The genre map displays various genres and even a young adult section is located, demonstrating that it is considered a genre. The audience is for those who are interested in reading and serves the purpose of informing readers of what genres they can look into.

Wendig, Chuck. “25 Things You Should Know About Young Adult Fiction.”TerribleMinds, 4 June 2013. Web. 26 July 2015. <http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2013/06/04/25-things-you-should-know-about-young-adult-fiction/>.

Chuck Wendig, a screenwriter, novelist, and game designer, argues why he feels Young Adult Fiction is not considered a genre itself. On this blog of his, a terrible mind, Wendig criticizes those who say that Young adult fiction is a genre with a series of reasons. Wendig provides 25 reasons with explanations, for example, that Young Adult Fiction is just a suggested age range. The audience he targets is people who he feels does not know what Young adult fiction is and intends to let them know it is not a genre itself.

“Young-adult Fiction.” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation. Web. 26 July 2015. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young-adult_fiction>.

Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia that people can easily access and contribute information to, and this article is about Young- adult fiction. The content on this web page is mainly information/facts about Young- adult fiction. This article educates us about young-adult fiction by providing a brief description, history and characteristics of it. The audience can be anyone and the purpose of this Wikipedia entry is to educate its audience about what Young-adult fiction is and does.