English Composition and Creative Writing in Higher Education: What Teaching Methods Are Effective for University Students?
Start Date
April 2024
Location
2nd floor - Library
Abstract
Over the past few decades, creative writing has become popular in higher education despite resistance from English departments and composition studies. Many professors and scholars have composed and released differing opinions and pedagogies detailing how professors should teach creative writing courses. While a lot of scholarship surrounds how professors, professional writers, and authors believe creative writing courses should be structured, there is a significant lack of research on how effective university students believe these techniques are and how they think they should learn creative writing in higher education. Examining existing pedagogy and survey results, this paper seeks to bring voice to university students’ views on English composition and creative writing pedagogy and its efficacy. Additionally, this paper expands on scholarship connecting the traditionally divided composition and creative writing studies and searches for commonalities between how professors teach college composition and creative writing courses.
English Composition and Creative Writing in Higher Education: What Teaching Methods Are Effective for University Students?
2nd floor - Library
Over the past few decades, creative writing has become popular in higher education despite resistance from English departments and composition studies. Many professors and scholars have composed and released differing opinions and pedagogies detailing how professors should teach creative writing courses. While a lot of scholarship surrounds how professors, professional writers, and authors believe creative writing courses should be structured, there is a significant lack of research on how effective university students believe these techniques are and how they think they should learn creative writing in higher education. Examining existing pedagogy and survey results, this paper seeks to bring voice to university students’ views on English composition and creative writing pedagogy and its efficacy. Additionally, this paper expands on scholarship connecting the traditionally divided composition and creative writing studies and searches for commonalities between how professors teach college composition and creative writing courses.
