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Negotiating the Personal in Creative Writing / Carl Vandermeulen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vandermeulen, Carl, Author.
- Series:
- New Writing Viewpoints
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Creative writing--Study and teaching.
- Writing centers.
- Creative writing.
- Local Subjects:
- Creative writing--Study and teaching.
- Writing centers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters, [2011]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book describes an alternative way to teach Creative Writing, one that replaces the silent writer taking criticism and advice from the teacher-led workshop with an active writer who reflects upon and publically questions the work-in-progress in order to solicit response, from a writers' group as well as from the teacher. Both accompany the writer, first as readers and fellow writers, only later as critics. Because writers ask, they listen, and dialogues with responders become an inner dialogue that guides later writing and revision. But when teachers accompany writers, teaching CW becomes even more a negotiation of the personal because this teacher who is listener and mentor is also a model for some students of the writer and even the person they would like to become - and still the Authority who gives the grades.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Negotiating the Personal and Interpersonal
- Chapter 1. Considering Where We’re Coming From
- Chapter 2. The Workshop: ‘More or Less Unfortunate Misunderstandings’
- Chapter 3. Reflection and the Dialogic Self
- Chapter 4. Response in Writers’ Groups
- Chapter 5. Teacher Response to Student Writing
- Chapter 6. Negotiating Authority as Teachers, Models, Mentors
- Chapter 7. Problems and Crises in Relationships
- Chapter 8. Resolving Dilemmas of Grading
- Chapter 9. Constructing the Practice and Identity of ‘Writer’
- References
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Jul 2020)
- ISBN:
- 1-283-22478-X
- 9786613224781
- 1-84769-439-X
- OCLC:
- 753977429
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