Creative Composition: Inspiration and Techniques for Writing Instruction

✍ Scribed by Danita Berg (editor); Lori A. May (editor)

Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 205
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

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?’

✦ Table of Contents

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

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