Table of Contents
Contributors vii
Foreword xi
Introduction xv
1 On Essaying Denise Landrum-Geyer 1
2 Eat Your Spinach! Why a Blend of Personal and Academic Discourses Matter Sara Burnett 10
3 Writing by Creation, with Response, in Experience Graeme Harper 16
4 Give it a Taste: Serving Creative Writing in Small Doses Abigail G. Scheg 24
5 Wiggling Between the Forms: A Cross-Genre Approach to Writing Dustin Michael 30
6 Writing to Discover: Creative Nonfiction and Writing Across the Curriculum Andrew Bourelle 35
7 Creative Writing's Five Stages of Development: The Mind of the Creative Writer in the Composition Classroom Jonathan Bradley Sarah Gray-Panesi 47
8 Sought-After Sophistications: Crafting a Curatorial Stance in the Creative Writing and Composition Classrooms Rochelle L. Harris Christine Stewart-Nuñez 59
9 Audience Resurrected: Restoring Motive and Purpose to Creative Writing Michael Kula 77
10 Lending the Muse a Hand: Expanding the Role of Social Constructivism and Collaborative Writing in Creative Writing Pedagogies Rod Zink 87
11 Grammar and Creativity in Composition: An Unexpected Nexus Shawn Kerivan 109
12 Invention in Creative Writing: Explorations of the Self and the Social in Creative Genres Danita Berg 114
13 Teaching the Exploratory Essay as Pedagogy Process and Project Sonya Ruber Ioanna Opidee 129
14 Beyond Argumentation: Toulmin's Model as a Dialogic, Processual Heuristic Debra Jacobs 138
15 Leave it to the Imagination: Service Learning as Part of an Undergraduate Creative Writing Curriculum Scott J. O'Callaghan 148
16 Show, Don't Tell: Using Graphic Narratives to Teach Descriptive Writing Tammie M. Kennedy Tracey D. Menten 154
17 A First-Timer's Approach to Teaching in a Non-Traditional Setting Connie Langhorst 169
18 In It for the Long Haul: The Pedagogy of Perseverance Anna Leahy 174
Index 182
