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Teaching Creative Writing: Don't Sweat the Technique: Making Writing Processes Public
Jason J. Griffith
English Journal, v110 n4 p121-123 Mar 2021
Process texts are published works that pull back the curtain on composition to show the techniques, tools, technologies, procedures, and/or inspirations of the creative process. Process texts also emerge mostly from nonfiction genres including memoirs, documentary films, and podcasts. In this article, educator Jason Griffith shares ways teachers and students can use process texts as authentic examples of how creative works are made by various artists and authors. He begins by providing examples of process texts and then explains how they can be complementary to mentor texts--works that writers can return to again and again to study and apply moves from published writers. Process texts reveal how mentor texts came to be. Griffith concludes with some ideas for using process texts as a tool for teaching creative writing.
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