Writing from the Self: Reflecting on the Role of Creative Writing in the Academic Writing Classroom 

As academic writing teachers, we are often faced with the challenge of teaching writing as a system or emancipating from its structures. In this reflective paper, we begin by examining our own experiences with writing for academic and creative purposes using co/autoethnography as a method of self-re...

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Main Authors: Peñaloza, Anna Carolina, Salamanca, Laura Camila
Format: Online
Language:eng
Published: Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia 2020
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Online Access:https://revistas.uptc.edu.co/index.php/enletawa_journal/article/view/10955
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Summary:As academic writing teachers, we are often faced with the challenge of teaching writing as a system or emancipating from its structures. In this reflective paper, we begin by examining our own experiences with writing for academic and creative purposes using co/autoethnography as a method of self-reflection. In addition, we invited three modern language students at a public university in Tunja, Colombia to share their reflections about their writing processes and the role creative writing could play in the academic writing classroom. Our reflections were a first step in rethinking our classroom from a critical sociocultural model, which revealed that students’ individual writing processes, motivation, feedback, and creative writing could help boost students’ self-confidence when writing for academic purposes.