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Teaching Creative Writing includes lively contributions from over two dozen leading practitioners in the field. Topics addressed include history of Creative Writing, workshops, undergraduate, postgraduate, reflective activities, assessment, critical theory, and information technology.
Synopsis
Teaching Creative Writing includes lively contributions from over two dozen leading practitioners in the field. Topics addressed include history of Creative Writing, workshops, undergraduate, postgraduate, reflective activities, assessment, critical theory, and information technology.
About the Author
HEATHER BECK is a senior lecturer in Creative Writing at The Writing School, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK,where she established an online Masters Degree in Creative Writing in 2002. She writes fiction, and her publications include a novel, entitled Home is Where.
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors
Introduction; H.BeckPART I: HISTORY
A Short History of Creative Writing in British Universities; G.Harper A History of Creative Writing in America; D.Henry
On the Reform of Creative Writing; D.Myers PART II: WORKSHOPS
Creative Writing as Creative Reading in the Poetry Workshop; R.B.Du Plessis and J.Osman The Irrational Element in the Undergraduate Poetry Workshop: Beyond Craft; G.HawkinsThe Creative Writing Workshop - A Survival Kit; M.Wandor PART III: UNDERGRADUATE
Undergraduate Creative Writing Provision in the UK: Origins, Trends, and Student Views; S.May
Undergraduate Creative Writing in the USA: Buying in Isn't Selling Out; A.Leahy Hidden Purposes of Undergraduate Creative Writing: Power, Self, and Knowledge; H.Ostrom
No Factories, Please - We're Writers; M.FreelyPART IV: POSTGRADUATE
Teaching Creative Writing at Postgraduate Levels: the Sheffield Hallam Experience; S.Earnshaw Creative Writing and Ph.D Research; J.Cook
A Critique of Postgraduate Workshops and a Case for Low Residency MFAs; R.Hemley PART V: REFLECTIVE ACTIVITIES
Reflections on Reflection: Supplementary Discourses in Creative Writing Teaching in the UK; R.Sheppard The Lynchpin in the Workshop: Student Critique and Reflection; S.Vanderslice From Wales to Vermont - A Round Trip - Creative Writing in the USA and UK; T.Curtis
PART VI: CRITICAL THEORY
Thinking Systematically About What We Do; K.Haake Re…creation, Critique, and Catalysis: Critical-Creative Rewriting in Theory and Practice; R.Pope Couplings, Matings, Hybridisations: What Writers Can Gain from Critical Theory; K.LaskyPART VI: ASSESSMENT
Assessment of Poetry in Higher Education: What Are the Limits?; M.S.RobertAssessment as Empowerment: Grading Entry-Level Creative Writing Students; M.Cantrell Ranking Student Writing as Bad Pedagogy and a Bogus Pretense of Objectivity; S.O'Connor PART VIII: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
New Tools for Timeless Work: Technological Advances in Creative Writing Pedagogy; J.A.Nieves and J.MoxleyLancaster University's Creative Writing MA by Distance Learning; G.MortFurther Reading
Index