Intellectual Creativity In First Year Composition Classes

Author : Heidi Wall Burns
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1475824971
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intellectual Creativity in First-Year Composition Classes written by Heidi Wall Burns and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-10-12 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today’s first year composition classrooms are largely reflective of the writing pedagogy that has been used for the last 200 years. Unfortunately, this methodology does not meet the research or writing needs of today’s college and university students. Burns and MacBride were determined to make their first year composition courses more relevant to their students and sought a way to revolutionize their syllabus to do so. Building on the work of Tom Romono, Nancy Mack, Camille Allen, Sirpa Grierson, Melinda Putz (and others), Burns and MacBride set out to determine if a multigenre research project could better teach their students research, writing, and critical thinking skills than a traditional research-based essay. The findings of their semester-long study indicated that not only does a MGRP teach these skills, but it far surpasses a traditional essay in teaching engagement, intellectual creativity, and transferable writing skills. Burns and MacBride demonstrate two different ways to integrate a multigenre research project into the college composition classroom.

Author : Anthony Tate Fulton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1475828802
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tell Me a Story written by Anthony Tate Fulton and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories have great power. This book attempts to harness that power to help students grow and develop as writers. It argues that stories and narratives can be utilized in the composition classroom, specifically first-year composition (FYC) to break down barriers. Throughout a given semester, stories and narratives can help students in composition courses to overcome academic, personal, and creative barriers, establishing a space for developing as writers and thinkers. Providing theoretical approaches, practical methods, and implications for using stories in FYC, this book explores the versatility of stories as teaching tools.

Author : Lynn Bloom
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Composition Studies As A Creative Art written by Lynn Bloom and published by . This book was released on 1998-06 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about the creative dynamics that arise from the interrelation of writing, teaching writing, and ways of reading - and the scholarship and administrative issues engendered by both. To regard composition studies as a creative art is to engage in a process of intellectual or aesthetic free play, and then to translate the results of this play into serious work that yet retains the freedom and playfulness of its origins. The book is fueled by a mixture of faith in the fields that compose composition studies, hope that the efforts of composition teachers can make a difference, and a sense of community in its broadest meaning.

Author : John Warner
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421427117
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why They Can't Write written by John Warner and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2018-12-03 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important challenge to what currently masquerades as conventional wisdom regarding the teaching of writing. There seems to be widespread agreement that—when it comes to the writing skills of college students—we are in the midst of a crisis. In Why They Can't Write, John Warner, who taught writing at the college level for two decades, argues that the problem isn't caused by a lack of rigor, or smartphones, or some generational character defect. Instead, he asserts, we're teaching writing wrong. Warner blames this on decades of educational reform rooted in standardization, assessments, and accountability. We have done no more, Warner argues, than conditioned students to perform "writing-related simulations," which pass temporary muster but do little to help students develop their writing abilities. This style of teaching has made students passive and disengaged. Worse yet, it hasn't prepared them for writing in the college classroom. Rather than making choices and thinking critically, as writers must, undergraduates simply follow the rules—such as the five-paragraph essay—designed to help them pass these high-stakes assessments. In Why They Can't Write, Warner has crafted both a diagnosis for what ails us and a blueprint for fixing a broken system. Combining current knowledge of what works in teaching and learning with the most enduring philosophies of classical education, this book challenges readers to develop the skills, attitudes, knowledge, and habits of mind of strong writers.

Author : Kelly Ritter
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822977877
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Know Her Own History written by Kelly Ritter and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2012-02-20 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Know Her Own History chronicles the evolution of writing programs at a landmark Southern women's college during the postwar period. Kelly Ritter finds that despite its conservative Southern culture and vocational roots, the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina was a unique setting where advanced writing programs and creativity flourished long before these trends emerged nationally. Ritter profiles the history of the Woman's College, first as a normal school, where women trained as teachers with an emphasis on composition and analytical writing, then as a liberal arts college. She compares the burgeoning writing program here to those of the Seven Sisters (Wellesley, Smith, Radcliffe, Barnard, Vassar, Bryn Mawr, and Mount Holyoke) and to elite all-male universities, to show the singular progressivism of the Woman's College. Ritter presents lively student writing samples from the early postwar period to reveal a blurring of the boundaries between "creative" and "expository" styles. By midcentury, a quantum shift toward creative writing changed administrators' valuation of composition courses and staff at the Woman's College. An intensive process of curricular revisions, modeled after Harvard's "Redbook" plan, was proposed and rejected in 1951, as the college stood by its unique curricula and singular values. Ritter follows the plight of individual instructors of creative writing and composition, showing how their compensation and standing were made disproportionate by the shifting position of expository writing in relation to creative writing. Despite this unsettled period, the Woman's College continued to gain in stature, and by 1964 it became a prize acquisition of the University of North Carolina system. Ritter's study demonstrates the value of local histories to uncover undocumented advancements in writing education, offering insights into the political, cultural, and social conditions that influenced learning and methodologies at "marginalized" schools such as the Woman's College.

Author : Alexandria Peary
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809334038
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creative Writing Pedagogies for the Twenty-First Century written by Alexandria Peary and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2015-05-22 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The creative writing workshop has long been entrenched as the primary pedagogy of creative writing classes. This book offers twelve different approaches to the teaching of creative writing to supplement or replace traditional workshop pedagogy. Contributors are from both creative writing and composition studies--a discipline rich with a wide range of established pedagogies.

Author : María Isabel de Vicente-Yagüe Jara
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
ISBN 13 : 2832540953
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading and Writing Skills: Cognitive, Emotional, Creative, and Digital Approaches written by María Isabel de Vicente-Yagüe Jara and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anna Leahy
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 9781853598463
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Power and Identity in the Creative Writing Classroom written by Anna Leahy and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Power and Identity In the Creative Writing Classroom remaps theories and practices for teaching creative writing at university and college level. This collection critiques well-established approaches for teaching creative writing in all genres and builds a comprehensive and adaptable pedagogy based on issues of authority, power, and identity. A long-needed reflection, this book shapes creative writing pedagogy for the 21st century.

Author : Deborah Coxwell-Teague
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1602355215
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book First-Year Composition written by Deborah Coxwell-Teague and published by Parlor Press LLC. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First-Year Composition: From Theory to Practice’s combination of theory and practice provides readers an opportunity to hear twelve of the leading theorists in composition studies answer, in their own voices, the key question of what it is they hope to accomplish in a first-year composition course. In addition, these chapters, and the accompanying syllabi, provide rich insights into the classroom practices of these theorists.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: