Composition studies as a creative art / Lynn Z. Bloom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bloom, Lynn Z., 1934-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creative writing--Study and teaching.

Creative writing.

English language--Composition and exercises.

English language.

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 269 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Bloom gathers twenty of her most recent essays (some previously unpublished) on critical issues in teaching writing. She addresses matters of philosophy and pedagogy, class and marginality and gender, and textual terror transformed to textual power. Yet the body of her work and this representative collection of it remains centered, coherent, and personal.This work focuses on the creative dynamics that arise from the interrelation of writing, teaching writing, and ways of reading-and the scholarship and administrative issues engendered by it. To regard composition studies as a creative art is t

Contents:

Finding family, finding a voice : a writing teacher teaches writing teachers

Teaching my class

Freshman composition as a middle class enterprise

Textual terror, textual power : teaching literature through writing literature

American autobiography and the politics of genre

Teaching college English as a woman

Creative nonfiction, is there any other kind?

Reading, writing, teaching essays as jazz

Why don't we write what we teach? and publish it?

Subverting the academic masterplot

Coming of age in the field that had no name

Anxious writers in context

I write for myself and strangers : private diaries as public documents

Making essay connections : editing readers for first-year writers

The importance of external reviews in composition studies

Want a writing director

Why I (used to) hate to give grades

Initiation rites, initiation rights / with Thomas Recchio

Making difference : writing program administration as a creative process

Bloom's laws.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [248]-259) and index.

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ISBN:

9780874213638

0874213630

9780585028415

0585028419

OCLC:

42329372

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access