Instructional Note: Hermit Crabs to the Rescue: Using Creative Nonfiction as a Bridge to Academic Prose

Teaching English in the Two-Year College Mar 2019

Instructional Note: Hermit Crabs to the Rescue: Using Creative Nonfiction as a Bridge to Academic Prose

Jennifer Young

Abstract

This article describes a one-session classroom activity that employs an unusual creative nonfiction genre (the hermit crab essay) to initiate first-year writers into the practice of successfully integrating academic research in their work. I share step-by-step instructions for implementation, along with classroom resources and materials necessary to conduct the assignment.

Journal: Teaching English in the Two-Year College
Published: 2019-03-01
DOI: 10.58680/tetyc201930157
Open Access: Closed
Topics: creative writing

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Bishop (2003)

Suddenly Sexy: Creative Nonfiction Rear-ends Composition

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Composition Studies as a Creative Art: Teaching, Writing, Scholarship, Administration

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