Dispatches from the Classroom: Graduate Students on Creative Writing Pedagogy

Author:   Teaching Assistant Chris Drew ,  Joseph Rein (University of Wisconsin, River Falls, USA) ,  Teaching Assistant David Yost ,  Janelle Adsit
Publisher:   Continuum Publishing Corporation
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9781441127402


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   08 December 2011
Format:   Hardback
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Dispatches from the Classroom: Graduate Students on Creative Writing Pedagogy


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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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Author:   Teaching Assistant Chris Drew ,  Joseph Rein (University of Wisconsin, River Falls, USA) ,  Teaching Assistant David Yost ,  Janelle Adsit
Publisher:   Continuum Publishing Corporation
Imprint:   Continuum Publishing Corporation
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.418kg
ISBN:  

9781441127402


ISBN 10:   1441127402
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   08 December 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

"Introduction Part I- Laying the Ground Rules Workshop, Revision, and Grading in the Creative Writing Syllabus Preventing Tears in Workshop: Teaching Students How to Give and Receive Criticism Kristen Gottstein, Georgia State University Eradicating Reviser's Block: Bringing Revision to the Foreground Ashley Cowger, University of Alaska Fairbanks Confronting the Unavoidable: Grading Creative Writing Ashley Wurzbacher, Eastern Washington University Part II - What Is ""Appropriate"" for the Workshop? Censorship, Trauma, and Memory in the Creative Writing Classroom Invoking the Muzzle: Censorship and the Creative Writing Workshop M. Thomas Gammarino, The University of Hawaii Dear Diary: Violence, Confession, and (Creative) Writing Pedagogies Laura Madeline Wiseman, University of Nebraska-Lincoln What Time Was I Supposed to Remember That?: Memory, Constraint, and Creative Writing Pedagogy Michael Dean Clark, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Part III - Teaching ""Technique"" Craft Elements and Exercises Exercises in Authority: Teaching Fiction and Poetry in the Undergraduate Classroom Jeremy Lakaszcyck, University of Massachusetts Write What You Don't Know: Teaching Creative Research Joseph Rein, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Making the Parts of the Workshop Come Together: A Practical Example Yelizaveta P. Renfro, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Avoiding Meaning: A Classroom Exercise to Improve Students' Homophonic Sensibilities David Bartone, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Unleashing the Nemesis of Genre Fiction Karen Gentry, Georgia State University Specificity of Dialogue: A Coke is a Soda is a Pop is a Cola Liane LeMaster, Georgia State University So Much For That Happy Ending: Rendering Complex Emotion in Fiction Anthony J. Sams, University of North Carolina Wilmington Part IV | The Hybrid TA Literary Theory, Writing Centers, and the New Creative Writer Something to Push Up Against: Using Theory as Creative Pedagogy Kimberly Quiogue Andrews and John Belk, Pennsylvania State University Adapting Writing Center Pedagogy for the Undergraduate Creative Writing Workshop Janelle Adsit, Colorado State University Composing Creatively: Further Crossing Composition/Creative Writing Boundaries David Yost and Chris Drew, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee"

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Joseph Rein is currently the assistant coordinator of the creative writing program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he is pursuing his PhD. His fiction, poetry and essays have appeared in The Wisconsin Review, Concho River Review, Fiction Weekly, Ampersand Review, Twisted Ink, and New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing. A former Peace Corps Volunteer, David Yost recently returned from his second trip to Thailand working with Burmese refugees to pursue a PhD in fiction writing at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His fiction has previously appeared in more than twenty journals, including The Southern Review, The Sun, Pleiades, Witness, and Asia Literary Review, while his critical articles have appeared in MELUS, Studies in American Indian Literatures, and War, Literature, and the Arts.

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