Reading, writing, crafting – Innovations in first year tertiary writing pedagogy Atherton, Cassandra and Pont, Antonia 2013, Reading, writing, crafting – Innovations in first year tertiary writing pedagogy, in Proceedings of the 18th conference of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs, Australian Association of Writing Programs, [Canberra, A.C.T.], pp. 1-13. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads atherton-readingwriting-2013.pdf Published version application/pdf 358.26KB 238 Title Reading, writing, crafting – Innovations in first year tertiary writing pedagogy Author(s) Atherton, Cassandra orcid.org/0000-0001-6866-8566 Pont, Antonia orcid.org/0000-0001-5194-0789 Conference name AAWP Writing Conference (18th : 2013 : Canberra, ACT) Conference location Canberra, ACT Conference dates 25-27 Nov. 2013 Title of proceedings Proceedings of the 18th conference of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs Editor(s) [unknown] Publication date 2013 Conference series AAWP Writing Conference Start page 1 End page 13 Total pages 13 Publisher Australian Association of Writing Programs Place of publication [Canberra, A.C.T.] Keyword(s) Curriculum Design Genre Creativity Writing Craft Reading First Year Pedagogy Summary This paper will outline some of the rationale behind, and strategies contributing to, curriculum revision in first-year creative writing at Deakin University in 2012 – delivered in that year and currently running in 2013. The process aimed to produce two consecutive offerings, with distinct but strategically scaffolded preoccupations. This paper deals with the first of these. The design process for this offering, named ‘Writing Craft’, involved addressing two central concerns: (a) the need to unhook the initial encounter with tertiary creative writing pedagogy from a preoccupation with ‘genres’ or the ‘forms’ of creative writing (such as prose fiction, creative nonfiction, script, poetry, and so on) and instead to reorient efforts towards establishing an engagement with craft per se; (b) to address a perceived impoverishment in the range of texts to which students had been exposed prior to commencing study – in other words, to emphasise the practice of reading to facilitate the practice of writing. The curriculum design also involved reimagining assessment, noting the ‘messages about making’ sent to students via the framing of tasks and rubrics. Aiming instead to deemphasise the role of inspiration and ‘work arriving fully formed’, it sought to offer assessment that provided clear – and bounded – prompts for incidents of making and the practice of craft, as well as to provoke conversation with a broad range of texts as a way of courting intertextual inspiration and aesthetic formation. ISBN 9780980757378 Language eng Field of Research 190402 Creative Writing (incl Playwriting) Socio Economic Objective 970119 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of the Creative Arts and Writing HERDC Research category E1 Full written paper - refereed ERA Research output type E Conference publication HERDC collection year 2013 Copyright notice ©2013, Australasian Association of Writing Programs Free to Read? Yes Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30059962 Document type: Conference Paper Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education School of Communication and Creative Arts Open Access Collection Related Links Link Description Connect to pucblished version Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Thu, 23 Jan 2014, 15:02:25 EST Fri, 24 Jan 2014, 07:40:11 EST Thu, 30 Jan 2014, 11:33:24 EST Thu, 30 Jan 2014, 15:40:26 EST Mon, 03 Feb 2014, 08:08:08 EST Mon, 03 Feb 2014, 08:09:31 EST Mon, 03 Feb 2014, 09:13:58 EST Mon, 03 Feb 2014, 15:17:59 EST Mon, 03 Feb 2014, 15:19:04 EST Thu, 06 Feb 2014, 08:05:35 EST Thu, 20 Feb 2014, 12:40:56 EST Fri, 11 Apr 2014, 12:32:54 EST Mon, 14 Apr 2014, 10:42:03 EST Mon, 14 Apr 2014, 11:24:43 EST Tue, 05 Dec 2017, 12:46:40 EST Fri, 07 Sep 2018, 16:53:42 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 694 Abstract Views, 240 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Thu, 23 Jan 2014, 15:02:14 EST by Antonia Pont

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