Creativity and Discovery in the University Writing Class - A Teacher's Guide - Alice Chik
13. Highways and Sinkholes: Incorporating Creativity Strategies in the Writing Classroom
Creativity and Discovery in the University Writing Class - A Teacher's Guide - Alice Chik
Shirley Geok-Lin Lim [+]
University of California, Santa Barbara
Professor Shirley Geok-lin Lim (Ph.D. Brandeis University) has
published seven poetry collections; short story collections; novels
(Joss and Gold and Sister Swing); a children’s novel, Princess
Shawl, translated into Chinese; The Shirley Lim Collection; two
critical studies; and edited/co-edited scholarly books and journals.
Crossing the Peninsula received the Commonwealth Poetry Prize;
and her memoir, Among the White Moon Faces, and The Forbidden
Stitch: An Asian American Women’s Anthology each won the
American Book Award. She received the Multiethnic Literatures of
the United States Lifetime Achievement Award and is co-founding
editor of Journal of Transnational American Studies. Formerly
Chair Professor of English at Hong Kong University, she is
Research Professor at University of California, Santa Barbara, and
has also been Distinguished Visiting Professor at City University
of Hong Kong.
Description
My chapter argues that cross-talk between creative writing and composition teachers, despite the different pedagogical traditions they are located in, will prove helpful in composition teaching.