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Creative composition : inspiration and techniques for writing instruction / edited by Danita Berg and Lori A. May.

Contributor(s): Berg, Danita, 1972- [editor.] | May, Lori A [editor.].
Series: New writing viewpoints ; 12.Bristol, UK ; Buffalo, New York, USA : Multilingual Matters, ©2015Description: xxi, 184 pages ; 21 cm.Content type: text ISBN: 9781783093632 (hbk : alk. paper); 9781783093625 (pbk : alk. paper).Subject(s): Creative writing -- Study and teaching | English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching | Report writing -- Study and teachingDDC classification: 808.042/C86 Other classification: CAS
Contents:
On essaying / Denise Landrum-Geyer -- Eat your spinach! Why a blend of personal and academic discourses matter / Sara Burnett -- Writing by creation, with response, in experience / Graeme Harper -- Give it a taste: serving creative writing in small doses / Abigail G. Scheg -- Wiggling between the forms: a cross-genre approach to writing / Dustin Michael -- Writing to discover: creative nonfiction and writing across the curriculum / Andrew Bourelle -- Creative writing's five stages of development: the mind of the creative writer in the composition classroom / Jonathan Bradley and Sarah Gray-Panesi -- Sought-after sophistications: crafting a curatorial stance in the creative writing and composition classrooms / Rochelle L. Harris and Christine Stewart-Nuñez -- Audience resurrected: restoring motive and purpose to creative writing / Michael Kula -- Lending the muse a hand: expanding the role of social constructivism and collaborative writing in creative writing pedagogies / Rod Zink -- Grammar and creativity in composition: an unexpected nexus / Shawn Kerivan -- Invention in creative writing: explorations of the self and the social in creative genres / Danita Berg -- Teaching the exploratory essay as pedagogy, process, and project / Sonya Huber and Ioanna Opidee -- Beyond argumentation: Toulmin's model as a dialogic, processual heuristic / Debra Jacobs -- Leave it to the imagination: service learning as part of an undergraduate creative writing curriculum / Scott J. O'Callaghan -- Show, don't tell: using graphic narratives to teach descriptive writing / Tammie M. Kennedy and Tracey D. Menten -- A first-timer's approach to teaching in a non-traditional setting / Connie Langhorst -- In it for the long haul: the pedagogy of perseverance / Anna Leahy.
Summary: 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?'
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

On essaying / Denise Landrum-Geyer -- Eat your spinach! Why a blend of personal and academic discourses matter / Sara Burnett -- Writing by creation, with response, in experience / Graeme Harper -- Give it a taste: serving creative writing in small doses / Abigail G. Scheg -- Wiggling between the forms: a cross-genre approach to writing / Dustin Michael -- Writing to discover: creative nonfiction and writing across the curriculum / Andrew Bourelle -- Creative writing's five stages of development: the mind of the creative writer in the composition classroom / Jonathan Bradley and Sarah Gray-Panesi -- Sought-after sophistications: crafting a curatorial stance in the creative writing and composition classrooms / Rochelle L. Harris and Christine Stewart-Nuñez -- Audience resurrected: restoring motive and purpose to creative writing / Michael Kula -- Lending the muse a hand: expanding the role of social constructivism and collaborative writing in creative writing pedagogies / Rod Zink -- Grammar and creativity in composition: an unexpected nexus / Shawn Kerivan -- Invention in creative writing: explorations of the self and the social in creative genres / Danita Berg -- Teaching the exploratory essay as pedagogy, process, and project / Sonya Huber and Ioanna Opidee -- Beyond argumentation: Toulmin's model as a dialogic, processual heuristic / Debra Jacobs -- Leave it to the imagination: service learning as part of an undergraduate creative writing curriculum / Scott J. O'Callaghan -- Show, don't tell: using graphic narratives to teach descriptive writing / Tammie M. Kennedy and Tracey D. Menten -- A first-timer's approach to teaching in a non-traditional setting / Connie Langhorst -- In it for the long haul: the pedagogy of perseverance / Anna Leahy.

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?'

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