Pedagogy Forum, Week 1

The first class of the semester provided an insightful outlook on how to introduce a creative writing class by initially enacting a writing exercise to share with the entire class. I believe that by starting off with an exquisite corpse type of exercise allowed for groundwork into introducing each classmate with their initial sense of each student’s writing and editing style. By sharing the result of the linguistic wordplay and then allowing class discussion into how the exercises could be further edited seemed to create the sense of teaching creative writing as a communal act rather than just following the teacher into a particular direction. The ability to lead a class into discourse with the writing, then, becomes one of many key aspects to developing a creative writing class.