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Breaking Open the Box
A Guide for Creative Techniques to Improve Academic Writing and Generate Critical Thinking
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2013
Summary
What do David Foster Wallace's essay on wars over usage and Pico Iyer's comma personification have to do with improving students' academic writing? Everything. For all of the attention supposedly paid to Bloom's Taxonomy-with creativity at the top-educators tend to shy away from encouraging students' creative choices in areas where traditional analysis and the critic's style and tone have reigned. While we do not want our students to write inane or empty verbiage, we unintentionally set them up for this inevitability--or worse.
The movement away from children's natural creative impulses in elementary school to a direction in which they literally fit their writing into preconfigured shapes is a gradual one. Although purportedly taught to instill academic structures, these boxes are also designed to facilitate the ease with which student product may be assessed.
We need a more creative approach to teaching writing. A methodology incorporating creativity, as modeled by students in this text, demonstrates the kind of progress we are all seeking, offering an exciting challenge for young writers and educators alike.
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Copyright year
2013
ISBN-Print
978-1-4758-0274-0
ISBN-Online
978-1-4758-0275-7
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
186
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Contents No access
Foreword No access
Preface: Writing Well Matters No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction: The Approach, the Heart of the Matter, the Structure No access
Chapter 1. Encouraging Creative Frameworks for Critical Thinking and Writing No access Pages 1 - 6
Chapter 2. The Writer as Creative Thinker No access Pages 7 - 14
Chapter 3. Recognizing the Problem No access Pages 15 - 28
Chapter 4. Outlining Creative Applications to Academic Writing No access Pages 29 - 38
Chapter 5. Applications with Prose Poems or Poetic Prose No access Pages 39 - 48
Chapter 6. Discourse Applications with Poetry No access Pages 49 - 60
Chapter 7. Applications with Narrative—Story, Dialogue, and the Mini-Script No access Pages 61 - 74
Chapter 8. Applications with Parody and Satire No access Pages 75 - 82
Chapter 9. Applications with Musings and Journaling No access Pages 83 - 86
Chapter 10. Applications with Unusual Vessels and Technology No access Pages 87 - 94
Chapter 12. Changing the Landscape of Academic Writing Assignments and the Classroom Environment No access Pages 115 - 122
Chapter 13. Making Editing Integral No access Pages 123 - 126
Chapter 14. Inviting the Common Core State Standards into the Classroom and Recognizing That They Are First Cousins to Creativity No access Pages 127 - 136
Chapter 15. Lesson Planning Involving Creative Choice and Techniques No access Pages 137 - 146
Chapter 16. Setting Up Action Research No access Pages 147 - 156
Chapter 17. Providing Students with Opportunities for an Authentic Audience No access Pages 157 - 158
Instructional Application and Dedication No access Pages 159 - 170
Appendix A: A Guide for Parents No access Pages 171 - 172
Appendix B: A Sampling of Young Writers’ Conferences No access Pages 173 - 176
Appendix C: Helpful, Creative Resources for Writers and Writing Instruction No access Pages 177 - 178
