Writing from the Self: Reflecting on the Role of Creative Writing in the Academic Writing Classroom
- Autores: Anna Carolina Peñaloza, Laura Camila Salamanca
- Localización: Enletawa Journal, ISSN-e 2463-1965, Vol. 12, Nº. 2, 2019 (Ejemplar dedicado a: ENLETAWA Journal), págs. 97-121
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
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.
