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

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Foreword xi
5. Introduction xv
6. 1. On Essaying 1
7. 2. Eat Your Spinach! Why a Blend of Personal and Academic Discourses Matter 10
8. 3. Writing by Creation, with Response, in Experience 16
9. 4. Give it a Taste: Serving Creative Writing in Small Doses 24
10. 5. Wiggling Between the Forms: A Cross-Genre Approach to Writing 30
11. 6. Writing to Discover: Creative Nonfiction and Writing Across the Curriculum 35
12. 7. Creative Writing’s Five Stages of Development: The Mind of the Creative Writer in the Composition Classroom 47
13. 8. Sought-After Sophistications: Crafting a Curatorial Stance in the Creative Writing and Composition Classrooms 59
14. 9. Audience Resurrected: Restoring Motive and Purpose to Creative Writing 77
15. 10. Lending the Muse a Hand: Expanding the Role of Social Constructivism and Collaborative Writing in Creative Writing Pedagogies 87
16. 11. Grammar and Creativity in Composition: An Unexpected Nexus 109
17. 12. Invention in Creative Writing: Explorations of the Self and the Social in Creative Genres 114
18. 13. Teaching the Exploratory Essay as Pedagogy, Process and Project 129
19. 14. Beyond Argumentation: Toulmin’s Model as a Dialogic, Processual Heuristic 138
20. 15. Leave it to the Imagination: Service Learning as Part of an Undergraduate Creative Writing Curriculum 148
21. 16. Show, Don’t Tell: Using Graphic Narratives to Teach Descriptive Writing 154
22. 17. A First-Timer’s Approach to Teaching in a Non-Traditional Setting 169
23. 18. In It for the Long Haul: The Pedagogy of Perseverance 174
24. Index 182