Graduation Semester and Year

2012

Language

English

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts in English

Department

English

First Advisor

Jim Warren

Abstract

Building upon recent work by Gerald Graff, Tim Mayers, Douglas Hesse, and Graeme Harper and Jeri Kroll, I propose a pedagogical approach that integrates creative writing with rhetoric, much as the emerging "creative writing studies" is integrating creative writing with literature. As I demonstrate through a fusion of personal, academic, and creative writing, composition pedagogies that have ignored creative writing have alienated writing-disposed students such as myself, as well as failed to prepare them for basic and necessary writing and teaching tasks outside the university. As an antidote to these problems, I suggest Creative Rhetoric, a pedagogy that champions authentic communications for authentic audiences (the rhetorical consideration), while also engendering creativity both in process and product (the creative consideration). Such an approach, I argue, not only helps repair departmental fragmentation while better equipping students for the twenty-first century workforce, but it also raises satisfaction for English majors as it develops the whole person, writer along with rhetor and critic.

Disciplines

Arts and Humanities | English Language and Literature

Comments

Degree granted by The University of Texas at Arlington

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