What Is The Place for Creative Writing?

1. A Brief Suggestion of Ideas and Encouragement of Professional Discourse by Breanne Reinhard What Is The Place for Creative Writing?

2. Isn’t all writing creative? What IS Creative Writing?

3. Fiction (short stories and novels) • Poetry • Plays • This is limiting,obviously: Scholes makes some interesting points about not limiting the literary. • At UIWP so far: • Collaborative writing (kindergarten) • Use of mentor texts (2nd) • Writer’s workshop (6th) • Found poetry (freshmen) Creative Writing

4. Creation of what I would like to read, but I haven’t found yet An opportunity to play with language and craft something beautiful An outlet to process situations and emotions for your life A way to argue issues or provide information that is less traditional What is the value of Creative writing?

5. What do I believe about the place of creative writing? Contentions

6. Creative writing exists within a larger framework of writing and composition studies. Creative writing can demonstrate a command of language and the power of words. Creative writing provides a sanctioned space in which to share your own experiences. Creative writing can extend to and blend together narrative, expository and argumentative writing. I believe

7. What do others say about the place of creative writing? Related Readings

8. pg. 34: “When creative writing and composition studies have little to do with each other, the division truncates not only what we teach and research but how writing gets understood (or misunderstood) by our students, colleagues and in spheres beyond.” pg. 39 and 42, Hesse cites Richard Lloyd-Jones “The place of Creative writing in composition studies” by Douglas hesse

9. pg. 47 Hesse cites James Porter • “People write because • This is the intersection of creative writing and composition studies, according to Hesse. “The Place of Creative Writing…” by Douglas Hesse, continued

10. This piece is a conversation between three writer-professors from different universities. If you are at all interested in this creative writing debate, I thought it was a great read. (So did NWP, apparently because I accessed it through their site.) “Where are we goin next? A conversation about creative writing pedagogy” from Fiction Writers Review

11. How does creative writing apply to CCSS? Standards

12. How do creative writers demonstrate the value of the craft? Discussion

13. How can you model for your students that creative writing matters? Participation

14. Think about an argument you’ve made in your writing lately. • Now, think of a way to express your argument through fictionalized situations, characters, setting, etc. • It can be a literal representation or more abstract. Your Assignment

15. So what do YOU think? Feedback

16. 1. What about this activity challenged you? What came naturally? 2. In your experience as a student, did you encounter creative writing assignments? 3. How about in your experiences thus far as a teacher? Have you used creative writing with your own students? Feedback