Title: Composition studies as a creative art : teaching, writing, scholarship, administration /
Authors: Bloom, Lynn Z., 1934-
Publisher: Utah State University Press,
Year: 1998
Subjects: English language Rhetoric Study and teaching; English language Composition and exercises; Creative writing Study and teaching
Abstract: This is a book about the creative dynamics that arise from the interrelation of writing, teaching writing, and ways of reading - and the scholarship and administrative issues engendered by both. To regard composition studies as a creative art is to engage in a process of intellectual or aesthetic free play, and then to translate the results of this play into serious work that yet retains the freedom and playfulness of its origins. The book is fueled by a mixture of faith in the fields that compose composition studies, hope that the efforts of composition teachers can make a difference, and a sense of community in its broadest meaning.
Contents: Finding family, finding a voice : a writing teacher teaches writing teachers -- Teaching my class -- Freshman composition as a middle class enterprise -- Textual terror, textual power : teaching literature through writing literature -- American autobiography and the politics of genre -- Teaching college English as a woman -- Creative nonfiction, is there any other kind? -- Reading, writing, teaching essays as jazz -- Why don't we write what we teach? and publish it? -- Subverting the academic masterplot -- Coming of age in the field that had no name -- Anxious writers in context -- I write for myself and strangers : private diaries as public documents -- Making essay connections : editing readers for first-year writers -- The importance of external reviews in composition studies -- Want a writing director -- Why I (used to) hate to give grades -- Initiation rites, initiation rights / with Thomas Recchio -- Making difference : writing program administration as a creative process -- Bloom's laws.