Document Type
Article
Source Publication Title
Academic Exchange Quarterly (Rapid Intellect Group)
First Page
203
Last Page
207
Abstract
This article presents a new context for using short story creative writing assignments and conveys the student perceptions of their benefits. First, the paper addresses the importance of creativity development for today's students followed by a discussion of ways and reasons fiction can be used outside of its traditional contexts. Next, the creative writing assignment is introduced followed by a presentation of evaluation results from two sections of graduate students who completed the assignment.
Disciplines
Education | Educational Leadership
Publication Date
1-1-2010
Language
English
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Tobolowsky, Barbara; Morgan, Grant B.; and Anderson, Christian K., "Using short stories in higher education courses" (2010). Educational Leadership & Policy Studies Faculty Publications. 10.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/edleadershippolicy_facpubs/10