Does the Writing Workshop Still Work?
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Does the Writing Workshop Still Work?
Description
This book explores the effectiveness of the workshop in the Creative Writing classroom, and looks beyond the question of whether or not the workshop works to address the issue of what an altered pedagogical model might look like. In visualising what else is possible in the workshop space, the sixteen chapters collected in Does the Writing Workshop Still Work? cover a range of theoretical and pedagogical topics and explore the inner workings and conflicts of the workshop model. the needs of a growing and diverse student population are central to the chapter authors' consideration of non-normative pedagogies. the book is a must-read for all teachers of Creative Writing, as well as for researchers in Creative Writing Studies.
"A remarkable new collection of essays about the theory, practice, design, and reinvention of peer-review components in writing-courses. the expertise and range of experience represented by the contributors is astonishing. This is a bountiful offering indeed." Hans Ostrom, editor, with the late Wendy Bishop, of Colors of a Different Horse: Re-Thinking Creative Writing Theory and Pedagogy
"By exploring the workshop from within as well as without, and by challenging the notion that such a staid enterprise as the workshop cannot be reified for emerging writers and teachers, this collection bravely takes its place among its clear predecessors - namely Moxley's Creative Writing in America and Bishop and Ostrom's Colors of a Different Horse-in refusing to quietly accept the simple notions that writing instruction is an organic enterprise, and that writers are (or should be) meekly acculturated to the practices and values of the writing workshop as `fine, I [guess],' to paraphrase one of the many astute contributors here." Kelly Ritter, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
"This collection offers writing practitioners new and insightful approaches to their teaching and is an important and timely resource with which to reflect on course development, teaching and evaluation." Catherine Cole, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
"Does the Writing Workshop Still Work? is alert to the newest media in the creative arts, while offering a defense and investigation of the best practices of the creative writing workshop. A valuable resource to all teachers who view creative writing pedagogy as an academic discipline and humanistic exploration." Shirley Geok-lin Lim, University of California, Santa Barbara; author of Among the White Moon Faces.
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