using creative writing to enrich student experience and achievement liz barrett (education,...
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Using creative writing to enrich student experience and achievement
Liz Barrett (Education, Childhood & Inclusion)Cathy Malone (Student Learning Services)
Chair: Viv Thom
Session Aims
To suggest a rationale for using creative writing in teaching and learning
To identify some distinctive features of creative (v. academic) writing
To offer a prompt for writing To model the writer’s workshop process
Uses of creative writing in teaching and learning Emotional engagement (affective v. cognitive)
Personal development (learning incomes and identity formation)
Transformation (revelatory v. revealed)
Memory (makes the abstract concrete)
Understanding (through parable, metaphor, association)
Writing development (dialogue about language and engagement in the drafting process)
Communities of practice (writers workshop)
How can creative writing be used? Stand-alone sessions applied to specific module content
Throughout a module for a specific purpose (e.g. to introduce or reflect on module content)
As the focus of the module as an approach to knowing or enquiry (e.g. Lifewriting & Education)
As part of a module in relation to the development of specific skills (e.g. writing development or the evaluation of sources)
To promote a community of practice (a mutually supportive, critical and reflective space)
Three Writer’s Maxims
The concrete not the abstract
The particular not the general
Show don’t tell
Another person’s moccasins
1st person voice
Other Voices
Point of View
The Riddle
1st person voice (topic is the speaker) Personification (becomes human) Metaphor (comparison with something
unusual) Qualification (what it is and is not) Description (using the senses) Function and Habitat (what and where)
Freewriting
separates generating from editing and critiquing. sidestep inhibiting self-consciousness, procrastination. basis of journal writing, therapeutic writing. develops with practice.
Rules DO NOT STOP WRITING AT ANY TIME Grammar, spelling, punctuation and sense are not
important. Repetition is fine.
( Adapted from P.Elbow 2000 Everyone Can Write)
Writer’s Workshop
The space and the silence
The conversation
The author response
