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Hamda Hanan; Mufeeda T.; Sajid A. Latheef – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2025
Earlier research has shown that translation holds the potential to combine close reading and critical authorship practices. But despite that, translation has occupied a marginal position as a creative writing practice in classrooms. Through practice-based research involving the students, the translators and the authors of the translated poems, the…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Creative Writing, Translation, Revision (Written Composition)
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Salinas, Juan L. – Teaching Sociology, 2022
This article is a reflective analysis of an assignment in which undergraduate students developed dystopian, postapocalyptic, fantasy, and fictional short story parables to illustrate their understanding of sociological theory. In a social theory course, students were assigned a final paper in which they designed a short story that integrated…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Sociology, Social Theories, Teaching Methods
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Perkins, Tanya – Journal of Teaching and Learning with Technology, 2019
In the writing classroom, collaborative learning often takes the form of coauthoring, peer workshops, or critique sessions. While these are useful, what other active-learning approaches might be effective, particularly in light of the range of media with which students are increasingly familiar? World building--creation of an…
Descriptors: Creativity, Criticism, Cooperative Learning, Active Learning
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Merzifonluoglu, Ayse; Tulgar, Aysegül Takkac – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2022
The popularity of technology use in various aspects of individuals' lives has necessitated integrating some form of technologies into language education to have a more effective teaching and learning process. Considering basic and sub-skills in English, vocabulary is probably the most preferred skill to learn by using different technological tools…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Achievement Tests, Creative Writing, Writing Assignments
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Parrish, Juli; Hesse, Doug; Bateman, Geoffrey – Across the Disciplines, 2016
We explain how collaboratively assessing a writing-intensive general education capstone seminar constituted a high-impact practice for faculty development. Students at the University of Denver complete an Advanced Seminar taught by faculty across the curriculum. Topics and themes vary widely, as do types of assigned writing, making assessment an…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Writing Instruction, Writing Workshops, Seminars
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Braun, Benjamin – PRIMUS, 2014
This article provides a framework for creating and using writing assignments based on four types of writing: personal, expository, critical, and creative. This framework includes specific areas of student growth affected by these writing styles. Illustrative sample assignments are given throughout for each type of writing and various combinations…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Content Area Writing, Expository Writing, Creative Writing
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Dickinson, Hannah; Werner, Maggie M. – Composition Studies, 2015
This article analyzes the genre of the sourced comic as an important pedagogical tool in the development of both alphabetic and multimodal literacies. We argue that sourced comics provide multiple design elements with which students can explore their complex relationships with scholarly sources, make visible various power relations informing…
Descriptors: Literary Genres, Cartoons, Teaching Methods, Multiple Literacies
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Arshavskaya, Ekaterina – InSight: A Journal of Scholarly Teaching, 2015
This article makes a case for using creative writing in a second language course. Creative writing increases students' enthusiasm for writing skills development and supports students' creativity, which is a fundamental aspect of education. In order to engage less motivated students, a series of creative writing assignments was implemented in a…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Motivation Techniques
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Koerner, Morgan – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2012
This article proposes a theatrically oriented, thematically structured course model for the upper level undergraduate German curriculum. The traditional focus on staging a single play in the German foreign language theater practicum neglects theater's potential to explore other literary genres and cultural texts and runs the danger of…
Descriptors: German, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Undergraduate Students
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Wilson, Peter – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2011
Concerns about the relation between critical and creative writing are reviewed in the context of encouraging students to engage in both kinds of writing as a response to literature in undergraduate degree courses. In particular the paper seeks to illustrate and promote good practice in the integration of creative and critical written responses to…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Reader Response, Writing Processes, Writing Instruction
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Morrow, Stephen; Hermsen, Terry – Teaching Artist Journal, 2008
In the late 1970s, poet Lewis MacAdams labeled the many writers beginning to visit schools as "wild cards in the deck of education," bringing fresh possibilities to a somewhat staid curriculum. Now, nearly thirty years later, the authors wonder if it isn't time to renew the metaphor, as everyone strive to name what happens when poets bring their…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Figurative Language, Poetry, Student Evaluation
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Hall, Maureen; Archibald, Olivia – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2008
This article reports the results of a research project involving "unconventional" pedagogical practices and examines the impact of contemplative practice on teaching and learning in an undergraduate creative writing class and a graduate level methods of teaching writing course. Using student evaluations of the projects, the authors…
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Educational Practices, Undergraduate Students, Reflection
Dryden, Lisa S. – Teaching Pre K-8, 2005
Letter writing in a "Dear Abby" format can encourage your reluctant writers to dig deeper into books by dispensing advice to troubled characters When this author's triplet daughters were in the fifth grade and wrote the advice column for their school newspaper, she discovered giving advice can motivate reluctant writers. This realization prompted …
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Creative Teaching, Writing Skills, Elementary School Students