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Dispatches from the Classroom : Graduate Students on Creative Writing Pedagogy

Author
Drew, Chris
Published
New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011.
Physical Description
1 online resource (234 pages)
Additional Creators
Rein, Joseph and Yost, David
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Contents
Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; I; Laying the Ground Rules:; Workshop, Revision, and Grading in the Creative Writing Syllabus; 1; Preventing Tears in Workshop: Teaching Students How to Give and Receive Criticism; Kristen Gottstein; Georgia State University; 2; Eradicating Reviser's Block: Bringing Revision to the Foreground; Ashley Cowger; University of Alaska -- Fairbanks; 3; Confronting the Unavoidable: Grading Creative Writing; Ashley Wurzbacher; Eastern Washington University; 4; Making the Pieces Come Together: A Practical Example; Yelizaveta P. Renfro., University of Nebraska -- LincolnII; What Is "Appropriate" for the Classroom?:; Censorship, Trauma, and Memory in Undergraduate Creative Writing; 5; Invoking the Muzzle: Censorship and the Creative Writing Classroom; M. Thomas Gammarino; The University of Hawaii; 6; Dear Diary: Violence, Confession, and (Creative) Writing Pedagogies; Laura Madeline Wiseman; University of Nebraska -- Lincoln; 7; What Time Was I Supposed to Remember That?: Memory, Constraint, and Creative Writing Pedagogy; Michael Dean Clark; University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; III; Teaching Technique., Craft Elements and Exercises8; Exercises in Authority: Teaching Fiction and Poetry in the Undergraduate Classroom; Jeremy Lakaszcyck; University of Massachusetts -- Boston; 9; Write What You Don't Know: Teaching Creative Research; Joseph Rein; University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; 10; Avoiding Meaning: A Classroom Exercise to Improve Students' Homophonic Sensibilities; David Bartone; University of Massachusetts -- Amherst; 11; Unleashing the Nemesis of Genre Fiction; Karen Gentry; Georgia State University; 12; Specificity of Dialogue: A Coke Is a Soda Is a Pop Is a Cola; Liane LeMaster., Georgia State University13; So Much for That Happy Ending: Rendering Complex Emotion in Literature; Anthony J. Sams; University of North Carolina -- Wilmington; IV; The Hybrid TA:; Literary Theory, Writing Centers, and the New Creative Writer; 14; Something to Push Up Against: Using Theory as Creative Pedagogy; Kimberly Quiogue Andrews and John Belk; The Pennsylvania State University; 15; Adapting Writing Center Pedagogy for the Undergraduate Workshop; Janelle Adsit; Colorado State University; 16; Composing Creatively: Further Crossing Composition/Creative Writing Boundaries., and David Yost and Chris DrewUniversity of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee; Contributors; Index.
Summary
With emphasis on practical classroom application, this up-to-date and refreshingly honest collection of essays is a wonderful resource for teaching creative writing. The original and utterly contemporary essays that accurately portray the reality of the teaching experience.
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ISBN
9781441116208 (electronic bk.)
1441116206 (electronic bk.)
9781441199393
144119939X
9781441156808
1441156801
9781441127402
1441127402
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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