This paper reports a study on children's classroom-based collaborative creative writing. Based on socio-cultural theory, the central aim of the research was to contribute to current understanding of young children's creativity, and describe ways in which peer collaboration can resource, stimulate and enhance classroom-based creative writing. The…

Knowing a place well may demand experiencing it from the inside to see it in detail and viewing it from the outside to attain greater perspective. This article suggests elements that contribute to understanding home when away by using the works of American expatriate writers who lived in Paris in the 1920s. (RM)

Describes a creative writing class in which students were encouraged to journey backwards into themselves and their own creativity. (FL)

Exercises are described to help junior high students understand the scope of non-fiction creative expository writing. The communication of attitude and context through language is demonstrated by an exercise based on "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance." (CL)

Examines motives that can serve as the framework for a creative composition course and suggests some specific creative writing procedures. (DD)

Asserts that the greatest hindrance to creativity is what students have learned about school and describes exercises to encourage the creative writing process. (KS)

A variety of practical techniques and suggestions for fostering creative writing in the classroom. (CS)

The article identifies five modes of thinking--defensive, productive, adaptive, elaborative, and developmental. Case studies of artistic, creative writing illustrate the modes. A writing program designed to identify and develop these thinking modes is described. (Author/DB)

Discusses the problems of evaluating creativity, and explains a particular approach used by the author. (JL)

Examples and ideas are given for stimulating creative writing in gifted children, using children's literature as a model, a stimulus, a motivational device, and a source of factual information. (DB)

The development of the advertising writer is really the development of an artist, an artistic process governed by the same exasperating lack of rules. It is above all an internal journey that each student must make to discover his or her own distinctive voice. Frequent assignments will eventually give rise to frequent moments of insight, charm,…

This study compared the relative effectiveness of fantasy induction, intrinsic motivation induction, and combined fantasy/intrinsic motivation induction upon creative writing performance of 100 freshmen college students. All three methods enhanced the creativity of the students' poetry writing, with the conjunctive approach exhibiting no more…

A taxonomy is proposed for evaluating the quality of learning in terms of a composition's structural complexity. Five writing structure levels are distinguished (incoherent, linear, conventional, integrated, and metaphoric) and samples of high school students' compositions illustrate each. Implications for both the psychology and teaching of…

This study evaluated the use of guided imagery practice to enhance creative writing with 43 academically gifted students (stratified as either high or low creativity) in grades 3 and 4. Groups receiving the guided imagery practice (regardless of original creativity level) generated more original writing, which contained more sensory descriptions…

The Scenario Writing component of the Future Problem Solving Program calls for students to write a short-short story exploring variables in the future. This article describes the scenario writing process, presents samples of award-winning scenarios, and offers tips for student-authors and for coaches. (JDD)