Does the writing workshop still work? / edited by Dianne Donnelly.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Donnelly, Dianne.

Series:

New writing viewpoints.

New writing viewpoints

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creative writing.

Workshops.

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.

English language.

Writing centers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Multilingual Matters, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book explores the effectiveness of the workshop in the Creative Writing classroom, and looks beyond the question of whether or not the workshop works to address the issue of what an altered pedagogical model might look like. In visualising what else is possible in the workshop space, the sixteen chapters collected in ‘Does the Writing Workshop Still Work?’ cover a range of theoretical and pedagogical topics and explore the inner workings and conflicts of the workshop model. The needs of a growing and diverse student population are central to the chapter authors’ consideration of non-normative pedagogies. The book is a must-read for all teachers of Creative Writing, as well as for researchers in Creative Writing Studies.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

About the Authors

Foreword On Experience

Introduction: If it Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix it; Or Change is Inevitable, Except from a Vending Machine

Chapter 1. Once More to the Workshop: A Myth Caught in Time

Chapter 2. Workshop: An Ontological Study

Chapter 3. Small Worlds: What Works in Workshops If and When They Do?

Chapter 4. Teaching as a Creative Act: Why the Workshop Works in Creative Writing

Chapter 5. Workshopping and Fiction: Laboratory, Factory, or Finishing School?

Chapter 6. Poetry, F(r)iction, Drama: The Complex Dynamics of Audience in the Writing Workshop

Chapter 7. Engaging the Individual/Social Conflict within Creative Writing Pedagogy

Chapter 8. Potentially Dangerous: Vulnerabilities and Risks in the Writing Workshop

Chapter 9. ‘Its fine, I gess’:1 Problems with the Workshop Model in College Composition Courses

Chapter 10. The Creative Writing Workshop in the Two-Year College: Who Cares?

Chapter 11. Workshopping Lives

Chapter 12. The Things I Used To Do: Workshops Old and New

Chapter 13. Re-envisioning the Workshop: Hybrid Classrooms, Hybrid Texts

Chapter 14. Introducing Masterclasses

Chapter 15. Wrestling Bartleby: Another Workshop Model for the Creative Writing Classroom

Chapter 16. ‘A Space of Radical Openness’: Re-Visioning the Creative Writing Workshop

Afterword Disciplinarity and the Future of Creative Writing Studies

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786612657153

9781847693969

1847693962

9781282657151

1282657151

9781847692702

1847692702

OCLC:

645099516