Teaching children how to use point-of-view in creative writing is described. (DB)

Provides biographical information on author Nancy Willard. (AEA)

This research concerns itself with making the imagination work; with developing, in university playwrights, a freedom to fantasy; and with encouraging them to give artistic form to their fantasies. (Author/RK)

Introduces scenario writing as useful therapeutic technique. Presents case study of woman in midst of divorce and custody fight to illustrate context in which technique was applied. Suggests additional applications. Concludes that good response is more likely for clients who possess good writing skills although other clients may use their own…

States that many authors have a desire to write a sequel to a previous book, or a series, to see what happens to their protagonist in the future, "after the happily ever after." Relates the creative process involved in writing the sequel to "Dynamite Dinah," titled "Dinah Forever." Concludes that yet another sequel is…

Argues that the creative process of formulating poetic imagery during therapy may control, integrate, and communicate emotional distress. Illustrates these ideas using the poetry and reflections of a middle-aged woman in analytically oriented therapy. (SR)

Offers the author's (a psychiatric nurse) personal perspective on the self-healing aspects of writing poetry. (SR)

Argues that while creative writing has important lessons to learn from composition in reference to process, pedagogy, and epistemology, composition has significant lessons to learn from creative writing in terms of axiology. Concludes that composition scholars are in a position to imagine alternative configurations that may be more suited to their…

Advertising may be the most pervasive form of modern rhetoric, yet the discipline is virtually absent in rhetorical studies. This article advocates a mutually beneficial rapprochement between the disciplines--both in academe and the workplace. Rhetoric, for example, could help address an enduring lacuna in advertising theory. Persuasive…

The year 1972 can be seen to inaugurate not a tradition of Asian American New York theater, but the rich and multigenre collection of writing that the author has called "the Asian American fakeness canon." The fakeness canon refers to a collection of writings that take as one of their central points of reference the question of cultural…

In the summer of 2002, the authors' university offered an online course, titled "Swims with Words: Reading, Writing, and Teaching Creative Nonfiction" (referred to as "CNF"). "Swims with Words" is a seven-week online writing course that immersed students in reading and writing nonfiction texts so they could explore nonfiction's value and its…

For academics committed to the idea of an all-round aesthetic education, one of the great successes of the last thirty years has been the tremendous expansion of creative writing classes. Despite the dramatic expansion of creative writing as an academic discipline, the methods, ideals, and values of creative writing workshops have very often been…