Teaching Creative Writing
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Teaching Creative Writing

The Essential Guide

  1. 200 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Teaching Creative Writing

The Essential Guide

About this book

The only textbook of its kind, this all-in-one introduction guides you through the history, theories and practices of creative writing you need to know to teach this ever-expanding and infinitely rewarding subject successfully in higher education. Asking you to think reflectively about the discipline throughout, this book offers a bridge between teaching and learning of the subject to help you develop effective and informed methods that will enliven your classroom and help you discover the best practice for you. Based on the author's two decades of teaching and research in creative writing theory and pedagogy, and on feedback from a range of instructors in the field, Stephanie Vanderslice brings forward this essential companion for students and teachers engaging with the study and instruction of creative writing. Written in Vanderslice's trademark cogent, conversational style, Teaching Creative Writing gives you the tools to understand creative writing as a subject and a practice and offers you a ready-to-use blueprint for planning your first creative writing classes. It covers such critical topics as:

- How research into the development of the creative writer might influence your classroom environment
- The need to free students from damaging myths and pervasive lore
- The use of revision and editing
- Creating inclusive classroom spaces and workshops
- The place of genre in creative writing
- Teaching students to work multi-modally
- How to assess and grade work
- Introducing students to the literary community
- Teaching creative writing online

Building on what it means to teach creative writing in the 21st century, this book leads you through creating your own syllabi, course plans, and statements of teaching philosophies, features capsule interviews with experts on key topics, and includes an online companion resource which features teacher guides to using the book.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Dedication
  4. Title
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. 1 How We Got Here: The History of Creative Writing in Higher Education
  9. 2 Research and the Teaching of Creative Writing: Why It Matters
  10. 3 Reading and Writing: Helping Students Make the Connection
  11. 4 Processes of Composing: Teaching and Modeling Generative Processes
  12. 5 Creating an Inclusive Creative Writing Classroom
  13. 6 “Literary” Writing, “Genre” Writing: Teaching Beyond the False Dichotomy
  14. 7 The Creative Writing Workshop
  15. 8 Revision, Responding, Assessing
  16. 9 Digital Creative Writing
  17. 10 Special Issues in Creative Writing: Trauma-Informed Teaching, Mental Health, Disability-Informed Pedagogy
  18. 11 Teaching Creative Writing in General Education and Across the Curriculum
  19. 12 Literary Citizenship and Professional Issues
  20. 13 The Sustainable College Teaching-Writing Career
  21. Appendix A: Further Resources
  22. Appendix B: Your Teaching Statement
  23. Appendix C: Your Syllabus
  24. Bibliography
  25. Note on Contributors
  26. Suggestions for Teaching This Book
  27. Index
  28. Copyright