An article about how an authors world view influences their work. The article also talks about how an author should show things to their audience rather than tell them. The example given is not to tell the audience a character is bored but to describe their actions, posture and expression.
The author of this article talks about the importance of not preaching your own world view but warns that through your writing your world view will inevitably come out in some capacity. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, stories tend to have a point to them or some kind of lesson that is learnt it is possible to misuse these kinds of stories to indoctrinate. This is related to some other research suggesting that the use of ambiguity prevents indoctrination by having no clearly defined outcome. The reader is encouraged to draw their own conclusions reacting to the narrative with their knowledge from their own experiences.
The point about showing rather than telling is a useful lesson for my practice but doesn't really fit my essay. The second point gives another perspective on the use of ambiguity and why i could not only be useful to stimulate a thought process but also to remove the authors specific world view from the narrative.
The author of this article talks about the importance of not preaching your own world view but warns that through your writing your world view will inevitably come out in some capacity. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, stories tend to have a point to them or some kind of lesson that is learnt it is possible to misuse these kinds of stories to indoctrinate. This is related to some other research suggesting that the use of ambiguity prevents indoctrination by having no clearly defined outcome. The reader is encouraged to draw their own conclusions reacting to the narrative with their knowledge from their own experiences.
The point about showing rather than telling is a useful lesson for my practice but doesn't really fit my essay. The second point gives another perspective on the use of ambiguity and why i could not only be useful to stimulate a thought process but also to remove the authors specific world view from the narrative.
"Research on the real-life benefits of fiction isn't new. In 2013, researchers showed that reading fiction could help boost people's theory of mind. Several months later, a study came out suggesting that couples could use movies as discussion points to better understand their own problems."
This article is interesting but more focussed on adults, I have found a number of studies that are focussed on the influence fiction can have on childrens attitudes and intellectual and emotional development. I don't think this study offer anything new to add to the essay and is not specific enough to my chosen subject. I need to make sure I make the best use of research selection in my essay to keep it concise and focussed. My research needs to be separated into core theories that form the core of the essay and supporting evidence related to theories or that give context to theorists opinions and perspectives.
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