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ERIC Number: EJ181254
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Publication Date: 1978
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Using Elemental Literary Forms in the Composition Class
Harp, Richard L.
College Composition and Communication, 29, 2, 158-61, May 78
Concludes that imaginative literature is the best way to begin to teach writing and the literature to teach first should be the most basic and elemental types: fable, fairy tale, parable, proverb, and myth. (DD)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Creative Writing, Fables, Higher Education, Imagination, Literature, Mythology, Teaching Methods, Writing (Composition)
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