From the Personal to the Public: Conceptions of Creative Writing in Higher Education.

Light, Gregory

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Publication Date: 2002

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From the Personal to the Public: Conceptions of Creative Writing in Higher Education.

Light, Gregory

Higher Education, v43 n2 p257-76 Mar 2002

Interviewed students taking creative writing courses at three institutions of higher education in the United Kingdom. Analysis revealed a typology of four differing student conceptions of creative writing within two overall "transcribing" and "composing" categories; these categories closely resemble students' conceptions of writing practices in other disciplines. (EV)

Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Classification, College Students, Creative Writing, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Writing Attitudes

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom

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