"Professional Writers, Personality Types, & Genre Choice"

About the Author

Kim Darnell graduated summa cum laude from the University of Nevada, Reno in May 2011. Her studies in English and Psychology led her to take on this research project, under the gracious guidance of Dr. Lynda Walsh. Kim continues to reside in Reno with her husband and chihuahua mix, Roxy. She currently works as a Family Consultant at the Davidson Institute for Talent Development.

Contents

Introduction
Literature Review
Methodology
Results
Works Cited
Appendices

Works Cited

Bazerman, Charles. “The Life of Genre, the Life in the Classroom.” Genre and Writing. Ed. Wendy Bishop and Hans Ostrom. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook Publishers, 1997. 19-26. Print.

Brooke, Robert, and Dale Jacobs. “Genre in Writing Workshops: Identity Negotiation   and Student-Centered Writing.” Genre and Writing. Ed. Wendy Bishop and Hans Ostrom. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook Publishers, 1997. 215-228. Print.

Carlson, John G. “Affirmative: In Support of Researching the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.” Journal of Counseling and Development 67.8 (1989): 484-486. Web. 3 March 2011.

Chauvin, Ida, Miller, Mark, Godfrey, E. Landrum, and Donna Thomas. “Relationship between Holland's Vocational Typology and Myers-Briggs' Types: Implications  for Career Counselors.” Psychology Journal 7.2 (2010): 61-66. Web. 1 November 2010.

Freedman, Aviva. “Situating ‘Genre’ and Situated Genres: Understanding Student Writing from a Genre Perspective.” Genre and Writing. Ed. Wendy Bishop and Hans Ostrom. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook Publishers, 1997. 179-189. Print.

Howes, Richard J., and Thomas G. Carskadon. “Test-Retest Reliabilities of the Myers- Briggs Type Indicator as a Function of Mood Changes.” Research in Psychological Type 2.1 (1979): 67-72. Web. 15 March 2011.

Johnsen, Gretchen, and Richard Peabody. “A Cage of Sound.” Conversations with Rita Dove. Ed. Earl G. Ingersoll. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi,    2003. 15-37. Print.

Li, Jamy, and Mark Chignell. “Birds of a Feather: How Personality Influences Blog Writing and Reading.” International Journal of Human -- Computer Studies 68.9    (2010): 589-602. Web. 15 October 2011.

McCrae, Robert R., and Paul T. Costa, Jr. “Reinterpreting the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator from the Perspective of the Five-Factor Model of Personality.” Journal of Personality 57.1 (1989): 17–40. Web. 5 November 2010.

Miller, Carolyn R. “Genre as Social Action.” Quarterly Journal of Speech 70 (1984): 151-167. Web. 30 April 2011.

Myers & Briggs Foundation. Myersbriggs.org. Web. 12 April 2011.

Pennebaker, James W., and Laura A. King. “Linguistic Styles: Language Use as an Individual Difference.” Journal of Personality & Social Psychology 77.6 (1999): 1296-1312. Web. 4 November 2010.

Reinhold, Ross. “Myers Briggs Test: What is your Myers-Briggs Personality Type?” Personality Pathways. Ross Reinhold & Reinhold Development, 1997-2011.   Web. 5 March 2011.

Stricker, Lawrence J., and John Ross. “An Assessment of Some Structural Properties of the Jungian Personality Typology. The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology 68.1 (1964): 62-71. Web. 15 March 2011.

Swales, John M. Genre Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Print.