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Casey-Williams, Jonas – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The emerging field of creative writing studies has provided new conceptions of creative writing's role within the English discipline. These conceptions focus on the relation of creative writing to composition studies, and there remains a need to reconsider creative writing's relation to literary studies. "Reading for pedagogy"--the…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, English Instruction, Scholarship, Writing Instruction
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Morgan, Wendy – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2006
This paper examines the processes of creative writing, exploring in particular how intuition and analysis, unconscious and conscious, work together, and how the social and the personal are involved in these processes. The author discusses her experience of writing a sustained narrative poem with lyrical elements, and then as a teacher-educator…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Writing Instruction, Poetry, English Instruction
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Nilsen, Alleen Pace – English Journal, 1994
Describes the reasons that companies frequently misspell words that are part of product names. Provides many examples of such misspellings, along with an analysis of why the words were misspelled. (HB)
Descriptors: Advertising, Business, Creative Writing, English Curriculum
Harrington, Suzanne – Quarterly of the National Writing Project and the Center for the Study of Writing and Literacy, 1993
Considers what makes up the sensibilities and personal traits of a writer. Describes how one writer learned to express herself through a particular writing workshop. Outlines the reasons writers write and lists some tricks of the trade. (HB)
Descriptors: Authors, Creative Writing, English Curriculum, English Instruction
Abrams, Debra Josephson – Quarterly of the National Writing Project and the Center for the Study of Writing and Literacy, 1993
Describes the sensibilities and temperament that make a successful, daily writer. Questions why writers write. Attempts to define what it is that makes a writer write. (HB)
Descriptors: Authors, Creative Writing, English Curriculum, English Instruction
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Morpurgo, Michael – Children's Literature in Education, 1993
Describes the way that novelist Michael Morpurgo came up with his character Anya for the story, "Waiting for Anya." Provides first-person account of the genesis of the character by the author. (HB)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Authors, Characterization, Childrens Literature
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Avi – ALAN Review, 1993
Discusses issues related to the writing of novels, the construction of meaning by readers, and generally about the act of writing from the first person point of view. Outlines the elements of strong fiction. (HB)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Authors, Autobiographies, Creative Writing
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Hammond, Catherine – English Journal, 1994
Describes the techniques developed by one instructor for helping students improve their writing, especially creative writing. Outlines how three central writing prompts can be used to inspire student writing and revision. Develops a computer metaphor as a helpful means by which students can access their own "screens." (HB)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, English Curriculum, English Instruction, High Schools
Mettelka, K. A. – 1980
Frequently, writing students are so concerned with correct grammar and mechanics that their essays are stilted and dry. Their writing is further hampered by rhetorical formulas that describe what the structure of the essay should be when it is finished but not how to go about writing it. Can poetic invention strategies help produce better essays?…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Creative Writing, English Instruction, Higher Education
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Nolan, Frank – Language Arts, 1979
Describes the process one sixth grader went through in writing a short story and analyzes what this reveals about writing and the teaching of writing. (DD)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Creative Writing, Educational Research, Elementary Education
DeSalvo, Louise A. – Media and Methods, 1979
Argues that educators need to demystify the writing process so that students can approach the world of literature realistically. Suggests that exposure to how writers work and to the kinds of situations from which they draw inspiration can provide insights into what is required of a would-be writer. (FL)
Descriptors: Authors, Creative Writing, English Instruction, Literature
Worley, Demetrice A. – 1990
Often when teaching creative writing to grade school and middle school students, teachers encounter two problems: students state that they do not have anything to write about, or students keep their poetic voices quiet and imitate the examples that they are given. If students are encouraged to mentally create images of poetic forms and to write…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Creative Writing, Elementary Education
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Kettel, Raymond P. – English Journal, 1994
Presents a transcript of an interview with successful young adult author Jerry Spinelli. Describes the techniques and writing strategies used by Spinelli. Discusses ways of generating stories, and the author's concept of his audience. (HB)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Audience Awareness, Authors, Creative Writing
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Sedlacek, Gary C. – English Journal, 1987
Reviews the major elements of short fiction to suggest the primacy of voice in creative writing, and recommends approaches for helping students develop voice in their writing. (NKA)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, English Instruction, Fiction, Language Styles
Bordner, Marsha S., Ed. – 1988
This collection of essays by college and high school faculty represents a variety of practical approaches that can be used in composition classes. The essays and their authors are as follows (1) "Undercover Preparation" (Judy Anderson); (2) "Paragraph Development from Visualization: 'a paragraph ain't nothing but a sandwich!'"…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Educational Strategies, English Instruction, High Schools
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