Dispatches from the Classroom: Graduate Students on Creative Writing Pedagogy

ISBN-13: 9781441156808 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 240 str.

Chris Drew

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With emphasis on practical classroom application, this title is suitable for teaching creative writing. Divided into four sections - "Laying the Ground Rules", "What is 'Appropriate' for the Workshop?", "Teaching 'Technique'", and "The Hybrid TA", it explores issues of daily concern to creative writing instructors from many viewpoints.

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Introduction Part I- Laying the Ground Rules Workshop, Revision, and Grading in the Creative Writing Syllabus Preventing Tears in Workshop: Teaching Students How to Give and Receive Criticism Kristen Gottstein, Georgia State University Eradicating Reviser's Block: Bringing Revision to the Foreground Ashley Cowger, University of Alaska Fairbanks Confronting the Unavoidable: Grading Creative Writing Ashley Wurzbacher, Eastern Washington University Part II - What Is "Appropriate" for the Workshop? Censorship, Trauma, and Memory in the Creative Writing Classroom Invoking the Muzzle: Censorship and the Creative Writing Workshop M. Thomas Gammarino, The University of Hawaii Dear Diary: Violence, Confession, and (Creative) Writing Pedagogies Laura Madeline Wiseman, University of Nebraska-Lincoln What Time Was I Supposed to Remember That?: Memory, Constraint, and Creative Writing Pedagogy Michael Dean Clark, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Part III - Teaching "Technique" Craft Elements and Exercises Exercises in Authority: Teaching Fiction and Poetry in the Undergraduate Classroom Jeremy Lakaszcyck, University of Massachusetts Write What You Don't Know: Teaching Creative Research Joseph Rein, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Making the Parts of the Workshop Come Together: A Practical Example Yelizaveta P. Renfro, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Avoiding Meaning: A Classroom Exercise to Improve Students' Homophonic Sensibilities David Bartone, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Unleashing the Nemesis of Genre Fiction Karen Gentry, Georgia State University Specificity of Dialogue: A Coke is a Soda is a Pop is a Cola Liane LeMaster, Georgia State University So Much For That Happy Ending: Rendering Complex Emotion in Fiction Anthony J. Sams, University of North Carolina Wilmington Part IV | The Hybrid TA Literary Theory, Writing Centers, and the New Creative Writer Something to Push Up Against: Using Theory as Creative Pedagogy Kimberly Quiogue Andrews and John Belk, Pennsylvania State University Adapting Writing Center Pedagogy for the Undergraduate Creative Writing Workshop Janelle Adsit, Colorado State University Composing Creatively: Further Crossing Composition/Creative Writing Boundaries David Yost and Chris Drew, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee