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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Creative approaches to writing center work. Cresskill, NJ : Hampton Press, ©2008 (OCoLC)649308709 |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Kevin Dvorak; Shanti Bruce |
ISBN: | 9781572738386 1572738383 9781572738393 1572738391 |
OCLC Number: | 245024547 |
Description: | xviii, 291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Kevin Dvorak and Shanti Bruce -- Part 1: Explorations In Creativity -- 1: Creativity in the writing center: a terrifying conundrum / Elizabeth H Boquet and Michele Eodice -- 2: Then everybody jumped for joy! (but Joy didn't like that, so she left): play in the writing center / Scott L Miller -- 3: Writing centers and politics of community, identity, and social justice / Harry C Denny -- 4: Hideaways and hangouts, public squares and performance sites: new metaphors for writing center design / Derek Owens -- 5: Literativity: reconceptualizing creative literacy learning / sj Miller. Part 2: Creativity And Tutoring Writing -- 6: Play about play: tutor training for the bored and serious, in three acts / Lisa Zimmerelli -- 7: Putting the "play" back into role-playing: tutor training through interactive performance / Sandee K McGlaun -- 8: Incorporating play and toys into the writing center / Chad Verbais -- 9: Tutoring creative writers: working one-to-one on prose and poetry / Hans Ostrom -- 10: Drawing the (play)spaces of conferences / Anne Ellen Geller. Part 3: Creative Writing Center -- 11: Center stage: performing the culture of writing at Stanford / Wendy Goldberg -- 12: Building labyrinths in order to escape: a guide to making play work / Julie Reid -- 13: Writing groups for teachers: opportunities for imagination, creativity, and renewal / Dawn Fels -- 14: Portfolio pandemonium: more than a practical solution / Jill Pennington & Timothy A Miank -- 15: Invitations and voices: fostering creative expression / Carol Severino & Cinda Coggins Mosher -- 16: Publicity, play, pedagogy: the story of the never-ending story / Derek Boczkowski, Ian Randall, Truly Render, & Sarah Sinovic -- About the contributors -- Author index -- Subject index. |
Series Title: | Research and teaching in rhetoric and composition. |
Responsibility: | edited by Kevin Dvorak, Shanti Bruce. |
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Abstract:
Addresses the role creativity plays in writing centers. Beginning with the premise that creativity has the potential to make work and learning environments more productive - and possibly more dangerous - this title features ideals that complicate visions of what writing centers can and should be.
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