Mooring Against the Tide: Writing Fiction and Poetry

ISBN: 0131787853

Author: Knorr, Jeff

Condition: New

For beginning and intermediate creative writing courses (General/Fiction/Poetry) that use a workshop approach.Message: This workshop-based textbook offers a hands-on, interactive approach to writing fiction and poetry.Presenting the fundamental elements of both genres, the text illustrates the creative writing process and guides the students through several drafts of various student sample writings as if they were participating in an actual workshop. Clearly written and organized, it also includes student samples, class-tested exercises, and an easy-to-use guide to the workshop process.

• Workshop Approach-Guides students through the process of creating poetry and fiction as if they are participants in a writing workshop by providing examples and practical guidelines. Provides students with a process for writing their own works, preparing them to critique, and revise their work as well as the works of others. | Provides students with a process for writing their own works, preparing them to critique, and revise their work as well as the works of others. | Workshop Sections-In each genre, a student story or poem is presented, followed by the work with margin notes from a professor, a critique, and student revision. Enables students to witness the "evolutionary" process of writing. (Chapters 11, 12, 13, 24, 25, 26) | Enables students to witness the "evolutionary" process of writing. (Chapters 11, 12, 13, 24, 25, 26) | Revision chapters. Assists instructors in stressing the importance of revision by leading students from a discussion of the topic into a workshop section-again making a connection between theory and practice. Introduces students to a practical approach of revising their own work, helping them to review the process as a creative rather than corrective one. Chapters 10 & 23 | Assists instructors in stressing the importance of revision by leading students from a discussion of the topic into a workshop section-again making a connection between theory and practice. Introduces students to a practical approach of revising their own work, helping them to review the process as a creative rather than corrective one. Chapters 10 & 23 | The Elements-Starts the text with chapters on the elements of fiction and poetry accompanied by an essay of an accomplished writer or poet which addresses that element. Assembles the topics in a logical manner that gives students a sense of the creative process. Ex. Chapters 2, 3, 15, 16 | Assembles the topics in a logical manner that gives students a sense of the creative process. Ex. Chapters 2, 3, 15, 16 | NEW - Creative Caf