ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an elongated and more fine-grained description of steps leading to self-authorship and shares the story of its creation. Previously, those assessing self-evolution among college students did so by reference to the meaning-making structures introduced by Baxter Magolda: External, Crossroads, and Internal meaning-making. In this model, three to four positions are described within each of these structural levels. This chapter describes this elongated continuum and illustrates its positions using excerpts from WNS Interviews. Next, it presents findings from studies that have been conducted using this ten-position model; these illustrate how students’ self-authorship development affected a variety of types of behaviors across different life contexts.
