Share Paper: From the Germ of an Idea to A Notable Gem: Sparking Creativity in the Writing Classroom

  1. Rathi Krishnan, Kaplan University, United States

Abstract: The typical first-term composition student often enters class with trepidation and dread for writing. Using creative reading as a bridge, the writing instructor has to find ways to light the creative spark in students. While there may be only a handful of rhetorical strategies known to humans, these can be combined and conjoined in a multitude of creative ways to produce fresh, interesting writing that exhibits thinking “outside the box,” and is non-stereotypical, strained, or shy. This is writing that is willing to take risks, to cross boundaries, to use metaphor daringly, and to exploit the tools of language to ...