Sunday, October 10, 2010
Pedagogy forum, Week 9
I am really finding ‘The Writing Experiment’ by Smith hard to follow, and maybe overall, not to helpful. I don’t think this is a text that I would be interested in using in the future to teach creative writing. First, for beginning writers I would imagine that it is not completely accessible. I find it hard to access even after writing for several years now. There are sections for beginners and those whom Smith would conclude to be more advanced, yet I feel that the book does not give me a great deal of material to work with. The few exercises that I have attempted to try from this text do not produce much workable material for me. And although this is true of a lot of other exercises I find the ones included in this book not fruitful. I was wondering how others in the class felt about this text—those both new and experienced to writing and how or if (those who teach) find anything useful in it to teach young writers?
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I wrote a response to this in my journal.I hope it offers some help to you. If not now maybe for your future.
Jeff
In my opinion, the books seems a little too ideologically driven. That is, it attempts to reclaim or rectify "experimental writing" more than it tries to help students of writing. Still, I think early on she makes some valuable specifications to small calisthenics.
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