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Writing, Motivation And Your Work In Progress: Catherine Cole On Writing Motivation And Finding Discipline In A Busy World, Catherine Cole
Writing, Motivation And Your Work In Progress: Catherine Cole On Writing Motivation And Finding Discipline In A Busy World, Catherine Cole
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
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Size Matters: Class Numbers And The Creative Writing Workshop, Shady E. Cosgrove
Size Matters: Class Numbers And The Creative Writing Workshop, Shady E. Cosgrove
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
With heightened funding pressures on Australian universities, academics are being placed under more pressure to increase class sizes. Creative writing workshops, where students provide feedback on each other's creative work, can be rigorous and demanding sites for teachers in ways that differ from 'traditional' classroom settings. This article surveys critical research on class sizes and the workshop model, as well as third-year University of Wollongong creative writing student perspectives, arguing that the in-person workshop model, while imperfect, remains vital to the discipline of creative writing. When successful, it can teach students the technical elements of craft as well as the …