Creativity and discovery in the university writing class : a teacher's guide / edited by Alice Chik, Tracey Costley, and Martha C. Pennington.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chik, Alice, editor.

Costley, Tracey, editor.

Pennington, Martha C., editor.

Benjamin Franklin Library Fund.

Series:

Frameworks for writing

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Rhetoric--Studying and teaching.

English language.

Creative writing--Studying and teaching.

Creative writing.

Report writing--Studying and teaching.

Report writing.

English language--Rhetoric.

Physical Description:

xviii, 379 pages ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Creativity and discovery in the university writing classroom a teacher's guide

Place of Publication:

Sheffield, UK ; Bristol, CT : Equinox, 2015.

Summary:

The teaching of writing is an important area of study. Whether as a supplementary or a required course offered in a university or other higher education English department, an English language centre, or a private language school, writing at university level is a critical area of study and competence for all students pursuing academic studies. Creativity and Discovery in the University Writing Class presents ideas for teaching writing at university level which recognize the need in the current world to be continually innovating in response to rapidly changing student populations and conditions, including advances in media and writing technologies. The volume emphasizes the creativity of all forms of writing and the important role of discovery in teaching, learning, and the acquisition of knowledge. This volume brings together distinguished scholars in writing pedagogy from different educational and cultural contexts who took part in a Summer Institute on Creativity and Discovery in the Teaching of Writing at City University of Hong Kong in June 2013. Designed for teachers of writing based on lectures and workshops given at the summer institute, this collection offers both theoretical insights and practical suggestions for classroom activities that teachers of writing will be able to go to for materials and guidance. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction. 1. Towards a creativity and discovery-based university writing curriculum / Tracey Costley, Alice Chik, and Martha C. Pennington.

Part 1. Framing creativity and discovery in the teaching and learning of writing: 2. Creativity in language teaching / Jack C. Richards

Creating identities in an intertextual world / Charles Bazerman

Writing creativity and discovery : process and pedagogy / Martha C. Pennington.

Part 2. Enlarging the view of genre and community in academic writing: 5. Writing differently : creating different spaces for student learning / Fiona English

6. Creative approaches to research-based essays / Teresa Maphrus Welford

7. Local voices, global imagination : using ethnography as a creative approach to student research and academic writing / Pauline Burton

8. Reconsidering the essay's definition in the university classroom : writing, disjunction, and the active nature of thought / Olivia Archibald

9. The wide world of nonfiction : breaking barriers of form to empower and improve student writing / Sonya Huber.

Part 3. Applying techniques from creative writing and literature to university writing: 10. The creative "I" workshop / Xu Xi

11. Travel writing without leaving home / Robin Hemley

12. May the farce be with you : reflections on "extreme puppet theater" as a vehicle toward something else / Mark Spitzer

. 13. Highways and sinkholes : incorporating creativity strategies in the writing classroom / Shirley Geok-lin Lim. Part 4. Supporting creativity and discovery in composing multimedia texts: 14. Watching/reading : graphic narratives and university writing / Jeffrey Maher

15. Re-presenting academic writing to popular audiences : using digital infographics and timelines / David R. Gruber

16. Online writing as discovery process : synchronous collaboration / Brian W. King

17. Mashing, modding, and memeing : writing for a new generation of university students / Rodney H. Jones.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Benjamin Franklin Library Fund.

ISBN:

1781791066

9781781791059

1781791058

9781781791066

OCLC:

892462415

Publisher Number:

99965852568