CREATIVE WRITINGFOR THE

COMPOSITIONCLASSROOM

“Creative writing as a compositionresearch area is generally ignored, and educators tend to deny the commonalities of writing a poem and writing an essay.”

HAIBUNForm of

poem:Prose travel

narrative ending with

one haiku

Journey began in the dark night of a negative experience in their Millennial lives..

Journey continued along the teeming midway of research…

…on, toward the clear skies of the calm and considered counter-argument…

…and finishing with the crystallized meaning…

WE ARE NOT THE ME ME MEpeople.WE ARETHEWE WE WEthe people.

WHY do it ?

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http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2013/11/organ-musicWord Cloud Generatorwww.wordle.net

…a paragraph about organ donation instead of about organ music…

“A particular style or category of works of (art); esp. a type of literary work characterized by a particular form, style, or purpose.”

Genre……essay?

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EXERCISES

Give students a restricted list of words and ask them to use them in a short argument that seems to be the opposite in feeling to the words you give them.

Process exercise for word choice, logic, and focus

Ask students to select a controversial Tweet. Ask them to explain what is missing because of the limits on number of characters. Ask students to add the parts that are missing, or ask them to create the interview questions they would need to ask the Tweeter.

Process exercise for idea development and support/evidence

Ask students to do a voiceover text for their paper drafts, as if they were in a movie, explaining the movie’s content.

Revision exercise

Exquisite Corpse

“The phrase ‘exquisite corpse’ originated with a Surrealist game of chance in which sentences were jointly created by a group of people, each person unaware of the words written by previous players.”

Logic & Unity exercise

Questions and Discussion