ERIC Number: EJ843828
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006-Sep
Pages: 24
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End of the Line: A Poet's Postmodern Musings on Writing
Leggo, Carl
English Teaching: Practice and Critique, v5 n2 p69-92 Sep 2006
I invite and encourage students to take risks in their writing, to engage innovatively with a wide range of genre, to push limits in order to explore creatively how language and discourse are never ossified, but always organic, how language use is integrally and inextricably connected to identity, knowledge, subjectivity, and living. Informed by postmodernism, I present eleven perspectives on language and writing and eleven poems that represent and perform a creative and diverse engagement with those perspectives. My goal is to experiment with writing in order to engage in an expansive dialogue about writing, especially the conventions of teaching and promoting writing in classrooms.
Descriptors: Poets, Poetry, Postmodernism, Writing (Composition), Creativity, Writing Instruction, Writing Assignments, Creative Writing, Personal Narratives, Authors, Teaching Methods
Wilf Malcolm Institute for Educational Research, University of Waikato. PB 3105, Hamilton, New Zealand. Tel: +64-7-858-5171; Fax: +64-7-838-4712; e-mail: wmier@waikato.ac.nz; Web site: http://education.waikato.ac.nz/research/journal/index.php?id=1
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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