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Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief Second Edition
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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.
- ISBN-10 1457611562
- ISBN-13 978-1457611568
- Edition Second
- Publisher Bedford/St. Martin's
- Publication date December 21, 2012
- Language English
- Dimensions 6.25 x 0.5 x 9 inches
- Print length 353 pages
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- Publisher : Bedford/St. Martin's; Second edition (December 21, 2012)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 353 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1457611562
- ISBN-13 : 978-1457611568
- Item Weight : 15.2 ounces
- Dimensions : 6.25 x 0.5 x 9 inches
- #2,484 in Literature
- #7,556 in Core
- #66,405 in Literary Fiction (Books)
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David starkey.
David Starkey served as Santa Barbara’s 2009-2011 Poet Laureate. He is Founding Director of the Creative Writing Program at Santa Barbara City College, Co-editor of The California Review of Books, and the Publisher and Co-editor of Gunpowder Press. Over the past thirty-five years, he has published eleven full-length collections of poetry with small presses—most recently Dance, You Monster, to My Soft Song and What Just Happened: 210 Haiku Against the Trump Presidency—and more than 500 poems in literary journals such as American Scholar, Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner and Southern Review. His textbook, Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief (Bedford/St. Martin’s), is in its fourth edition. He is also the author of two composition textbooks: Hello, Writer: An Academic Writing Guide (Bedford/St. Martin's) and Academic Writing Now: A Brief Guide for Busy Students (Broadview). A frequent collaborator with the late Wendy Bishop, Starkey helped develop a pedagogy focused on the cross-pollination of composition and creative writing. In addition to his work with Bishop, which includes the co-authored Keywords in Creative Writing (2006), he is the editor of two collections of essays on pedagogy, Teaching Writing Creatively (1998) and Genre by Example: Writing What We Teach (2001), and a special issue of Teaching English in the Two-Year College (Dec. 2014). Starkey is also a writer of fiction and creative nonfiction (published in American Literary Review, in Cimarron Review, in Living Blue in the Red States,and elsewhere), and a playwright whose plays have been produced across the U.S. (davidstarkey.net)
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Customers find the book's educational value, functionality, and writing style to be positive. They mention it's a strong educational tool, good for an introductory creative writing course, and the exercises are fun and informative. Readers also appreciate the wide variety of outstanding writers.
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Customers find the book a strong educational tool for understanding writers. They say it's good for an introductory creative writing course and the exercises are fun and informative. Readers also appreciate the practical tips and examples.
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Customers find the book's functionality good. They mention it works well enough for the course and the author does a good job of putting new creative ideas into it.
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