Edutainment as a Writing Genre: A Case Study of the Young-Adult Documentary Fiction “We Can Transform” by Captain Thitima Changphoom
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This article aims to detail a study of the young-adult documentary book entitled “We Can Transform”, which was written by Captain Thitima Changpoom. The purpose of this study is two-fold: to investigate the author’s writing techniques and to explore the book’s values.
The findings reveal that the author adopted nine literary writing techniques to seize the reader’s attention. Such techniques include the name of the title and use of plots, themes, characters, setting and tone, writing style (language arts) and illustration. With respect to the book’s values, it was found that this documentary book offers significant value to the reader in four aspects: language value, and values in enhancing the reader’s intellect, personality and social development. It might be concluded that “We Can Tranform” is a new type of documentary fiction or edutainment literary genre that manages to blend knowledge and entertainment and meet the needs of those who seek the pleasure of reading while simultaneously gaining the knowledge that the author aims to provide.
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