Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief
- ISBN-10
- 1457642905
- ISBN-13
- 9781457642906
- Series
- Creative Writing
- Category
- Literary Collections
- Pages
- 368
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-12-21
- Publisher
- Macmillan Higher Education
- Author
- David Starkey
Description
How can students with widely varied levels of literary experience learn to write poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and drama — over the course of only one semester? In Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief, David Starkey offers some solutions to the challenges of teaching the introductory creative writing course: (1) concise, accessible instruction in the basics of writing poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and drama; (2) short models of literature to analyze, admire and emulate; (3) inventive and imaginative assignments that inspire and motivate.
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