Creative Composition : Inspiration and Techniques for Writing Instruction / Danita Berg, Lori A. May.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berg, Danita, Editor.

May, Lori A., Editor.

Series:

New writing viewpoints ; 12.

New Writing Viewpoints

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creative writing--Study and teaching.

Creative writing.

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.

English language.

Report writing--Study and teaching.

Report writing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (205 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters, [2015]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

For decades theorists have opined that the lines between creative writing and composition need to be lifted, yet little has been written about the pedagogical methods that allow a cohesive approach between the disciplines. This book brings together contemporary authors and well-respected creative writing instructors and theorists to explore ways creativity in composition may be encouraged in student writers. The question in this anthology is not ‘Can writing be taught?’ but ‘How can we inspire students to embrace the creative process no matter what they write?’ This book offers multiple strategies to merge the best practices of teaching writing, regardless of the genre.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Contributors

Foreword

Introduction

1. On Essaying

2. Eat Your Spinach! Why a Blend of Personal and Academic Discourses Matter

3. Writing by Creation, with Response, in Experience

4. Give it a Taste: Serving Creative Writing in Small Doses

5. Wiggling Between the Forms: A Cross-Genre Approach to Writing

6. Writing to Discover: Creative Nonfiction and Writing Across the Curriculum

7. Creative Writing’s Five Stages of Development: The Mind of the Creative Writer in the Composition Classroom

8. Sought-After Sophistications: Crafting a Curatorial Stance in the Creative Writing and Composition Classrooms

9. Audience Resurrected: Restoring Motive and Purpose to Creative Writing

10. Lending the Muse a Hand: Expanding the Role of Social Constructivism and Collaborative Writing in Creative Writing Pedagogies

11. Grammar and Creativity in Composition: An Unexpected Nexus

12. Invention in Creative Writing: Explorations of the Self and the Social in Creative Genres

13. Teaching the Exploratory Essay as Pedagogy, Process and Project

14. Beyond Argumentation: Toulmin’s Model as a Dialogic, Processual Heuristic

15. Leave it to the Imagination: Service Learning as Part of an Undergraduate Creative Writing Curriculum

16. Show, Don’t Tell: Using Graphic Narratives to Teach Descriptive Writing

17. A First-Timer’s Approach to Teaching in a Non-Traditional Setting

18. In It for the Long Haul: The Pedagogy of Perseverance

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9781783093656

178309365X

9781783093632

1783093633

OCLC:

908632756