Showmanship and Student Engagement: Creative Writing Experience's effect on the overall student perception of teachers
Start Date
2023 3:20 PM
Location
Alter Hall 211
Abstract
Academic discourse surrounding Creative Writing Pedagogy is largely dominated by arguments as to why creative writing is worth teaching to our students, what benefits it grants to their writing skills overall, even beyond the sphere of Poetry, Fiction, and Creative Nonfiction. This speaks to the overall issue perceived by academics in this field–those who control what kind of writing instruction students are given mandatorily and those who determine what kind of English/Language Arts instruction is included in standard curricula are in need of persuading as to why more creative writing instruction ought to be included. One of the key claims in favor of creative writing instruction I’ve seen repeated again and again is that creative writing instruction sharpens other language arts skills as well. In light of this, I’ve conducted a study intending to determine whether having received creative writing instruction and/or having tangible experience in publishing pieces of creative writing makes for better writing professors overall. The purpose of this analysis is to determine if there is a clear correlation between a writing professor’s creative writing qualifications and their overall scores on Rate My Professor, as well as the number of ratings they received overall.
Showmanship and Student Engagement: Creative Writing Experience's effect on the overall student perception of teachers
Alter Hall 211
Academic discourse surrounding Creative Writing Pedagogy is largely dominated by arguments as to why creative writing is worth teaching to our students, what benefits it grants to their writing skills overall, even beyond the sphere of Poetry, Fiction, and Creative Nonfiction. This speaks to the overall issue perceived by academics in this field–those who control what kind of writing instruction students are given mandatorily and those who determine what kind of English/Language Arts instruction is included in standard curricula are in need of persuading as to why more creative writing instruction ought to be included. One of the key claims in favor of creative writing instruction I’ve seen repeated again and again is that creative writing instruction sharpens other language arts skills as well. In light of this, I’ve conducted a study intending to determine whether having received creative writing instruction and/or having tangible experience in publishing pieces of creative writing makes for better writing professors overall. The purpose of this analysis is to determine if there is a clear correlation between a writing professor’s creative writing qualifications and their overall scores on Rate My Professor, as well as the number of ratings they received overall.
