Creative Composition

Danita Berg is English Department Director at Full Sail University, Orlando, Florida. Her research interests include creative writing studies, women's voice in writing, and invention. She is also Founder and Co-Editor of Animal: A Beast of a Literary Magazine. www.danitaberg.wordpress.com Lori A. May is a writing mentor at University of King’s College, Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is Founding Editor of Poets’ Quarterly (www.poetsquarterly.com), and her other books include The Write Crowd: Literary Citizenship & the Writing Life (Bloomsbury, 2014) and The Low-Residency MFA Handbook: A Guide for Prospective Creative Writing Students (Continuum, 2011). www.loriamay.com 

Danita Berg and Lori A. May: Introduction



Tim Mayers and Stephanie Vanderslice: Foreword



1. Denise Landrum-Geyer: On Essaying



2. Sara Burnett: Eat Your Spinach! Why a Blend of Personal and Academic Discourses Matter



3. Graeme Harper: Writing by Creation, with Response, in Experience



4. Abigail G. Scheg: Give it a Taste: Serving Creative Writing in Small Doses



5. Dustin Michael: Wiggling Between the Forms: A Cross-Genre Approach to Writing



6. Andrew Bourelle: Writing to Discover: Creative Nonfiction and Writing Across the Curriculum



7. Jonathan Bradley and Sarah Gray-Panesi: Creative Writing’s Five Stages of Development: The Mind of the Creative Writer in the Composition Classroom



8. Rochelle L. Harris and Christine Stewart-Nuñez: Sought-After Sophistications: Crafting a Curatorial Stance in the Creative Writing and Composition Classrooms



9. Michael Kula: Audience Resurrected: Restoring Motive and Purpose to Creative Writing



10. Rod Zink: Lending the Muse a Hand: Expanding the Role of Social Constructivism and Collaborative Writing in Creative Writing Pedagogies



11. Shawn Kerivan: Grammar and Creativity in Composition: An Unexpected Nexus



12. Danita Berg: Invention in Creative Writing: Explorations of the Self and the Social in Creative Genres



13. Sonya Huber and Ioanna Opidee: Teaching the Exploratory Essay as Pedagogy, Process, and Project



14. Debra Jacobs: Beyond Argumentation: Toulmin’s Model and a Dialogic Process for Critical Self-Reflection



15. Scott J. O’Callaghan: Leave it to the Imagination: Service Learning as Part of an Undergraduate Creative Writing Curriculum



16. Tammie M. Kennedy and Tracey D. Menten: Show, Don’t Tell: Using Graphic Narratives to Teach Descriptive Writing



17. Connie Langhorst: A First-Timer’s Approach to Teaching in a Non-Traditional Setting



18. Anna Leahy: In It for the Long Haul: The Pedagogy of Perseverance