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Direct linkSteven E. Stemler; James C. Kaufman – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2025
Some types of instructions for creativity tasks (such as explicitly telling people to be creative) can boost performance. Showing people examples or telling them ways of approaching the problem before they begin a creativity task can help, but results are mixed about whether it is better to emphasize positive examples/approaches that can be…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Writing Instruction, Teaching Methods, Creativity
Download full textSkalicky, Stephen; Berger, Cynthia M.; Crossley, Scott A.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
A corpus of 313 freshman college essays was analyzed in order to better understand the forms and functions of humor in academic writing. Human ratings of humor and wordplay were statistically aggregated using Factor Analysis to provide an overall "Humor" component score for each essay in the corpus. In addition, the essays were also…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Academic Discourse, Humor, Writing (Composition)
