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Download full textDELL, WILLIAM C. – 1964
IN CREATIVE WRITING, UNLIKE IN FORMAL COMPOSITION, STUDENTS CHOOSE THEIR OWN FORMS AND MATERIALS TO EXPRESS THEIR THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS. SUCH AN OBJECTIVE DEMANDS A CLASSROOM ATMOSPHERE IN WHICH STUDENTS CAN EXPRESS THEMSELVES FREELY AND CONFIDENTLY WITHOUT FEAR OF HARSH NEGATIVE CRITICISM. IN ADDITION TO WRITING EXTENSIVELY, STUDENTS CAN BE AIDED…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Creative Development, Creative Expression, Creative Writing
Peer reviewedHunter, Elizabeth – Childhood Education, 1968
Teachers can encourage youngsters to express their ideas creatively by providing help in three areas--content, language, and process. In terms of content, children often have few resources for tapping their thoughts, and may need 'pump primers' such as being told the beginning and end of a story and speculating about a variety of middles. Once…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Creative Development, Creative Expression, Creative Writing
Baumbach, Jonathan, Ed. – 1970
In an attempt to exorcise cliched, hollow, "voiceless prose," 11 diverse novelists, poets, playwrights, essayists, and critics who are serious teachers of writing share their insights and feelings about their roles as teachers and about writing. Some of the goals expressed in these essays about the relationship between processes of writing and the…
Descriptors: Authors, Classroom Environment, College Students, Creative Development
Peer reviewedKaufman, Wallace – English Journal, 1971
A consideration of seven "necessary freedoms" which, the author maintains, composition classes typically do not provide for students. (RD)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Creative Development, Creative Expression, Creative Writing
Smith, Rodney P., Jr. – 1970
Following the establishment of working definitions of "creativity" and "English," Chapter 1 of this state-of-the-art paper surveys research into the nature of creativity, points out the need to establish criteria for creativity, and discusses the relation of creativity to English. Chapter 2 considers the classroom and the teacher as elements of a…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Creative Development, Creative Dramatics, Creative Writing
