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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Berg, Danita,; Bourelle, Andrew,; Bradley, Jonathan,; Burnett, Sara,; Gray-Panesi, Sarah,; Harper, Graeme,; Harris, Rochelle L.,; Huber, Sonya,; Jacobs, Debra,; Kennedy, Tammie M.,; Kerivan, Shawn,; Kula, Michael,; Landrum-Geyer, Denise,; Langhorst, Connie,; Leahy, Anna,; May, Lori A.,; Mayers, Tim,; Menten, Tracey D.,; Michael, Dustin,; O'Callaghan, Scott J.,; Opidee, Ioanna,; Scheg, Abigail G.,; Stewart-Nuñez, Christine,; Vanderslice, Stephanie,; Zink, Rod,
• HerausgeberIn: Berg, Danita,; May, Lori A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: New Writing Viewpoints
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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 wr...

Table of 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