creative writing oral presentation
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Creative Writing
Finding out about yourself
through
the art of Creative Writing
Introduction
Define
Site of self-construction
Site of knowledge
Writing for an audience
Conclusion – knowing/being
Definition
Creative writing is anything where the purpose is
to express thoughts, feelings and emotions rather than to simply convey information.
Who on earth am I?
peers• work• uni
home
• parent• child• spouse
setting• country• era
‘No one writes in complete isolation, and issues of race, gender, power and politics are always relevant forces that deeply affect writers and their writing.’
Jeff Park
Site of self-construction
SELF
Race
Politics
GenderReligion
Culture
Personal filters
To clone or not to clone?
seeing
understanding
representing
‘the ways of telling and the ways of conceptualising that go with them … they finally become recipes for structuring experience itself’
Jerome Bruner
Life’s experience Interpreting the world around us
Site of knowledge
“Knowledge is … generally defined as … something along the lines of ‘justified true belief ’ ”
Graeme Harper
YouTube - Inspiring flicbits - Imagine what you will know tomorrow
LogicalDevelopmental
ContextMeaning
Right brain
Left brain
Writing for an audience
Relating personal experien
ces
Audience perspectiv
e
‘When I write, it is with an emphasis on the sharing of wisdom arising from my life experience.’
Doug Rosbury
EvaluationWhat will they think?
In Conclusion
‘Maybe writing, by acting as a site of self-construction, is one of the dominant ways people in the modern world create a sense of who they are, and how they relate to others.’
Jeff Park
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Inward
• Self reflection
Outward
• Research (read, read, read)
Challenges