Researching Creative Writing : Creative Writing Studies - Jen Webb

Researching Creative Writing

By: Jen Webb

Hardcover | 4 June 2015

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Creative writing and academic research can seem uncomfortable bedfellows. But in this learned, practical book, Jen Webb shows how 'research practices can invigorate writing; creative practices can invigorate research; and - if properly organised and managed - creative writing can operate as a mode of knowledge generation, a way of exploring problems and answering questions that matter in our current context'. Researching creative writing enables writer-researchers to craft a toolkit that will help them produce better creative work and more rigorous research work.

Jen Webb is Distinguished Professor, Creative Practice, at the University of Canberra.

Researching creative writing is the sixth title in the Creative Writing Studies series.
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"This book is going to be become an important book. It is a joy to read, whether dipping in or reading the whole thing, because it is learned yet accessible without being patronising. A difficult balance to achieve by anyone. The text deals with some very complex ideas relating to practice driven research embedded within creativity and criticality." - Dr. Vanessa Harbour (http://chaosmos-outofchaoscomesorder.blogspot.co.uk/) // "This is a book that has the potential to help creative writers 'make knowledge festive' in the process of creating their research projects. It is structured logically so as to make for optimal comprehension. It is superbly written and gives exciting examples of writers and books that illustrate the process of researching creative writing and writing as research. A book to which I shall refer repeatedly and which I highly recommend not only for tertiary students doing higher research degrees, or academics, but for all writers interested in research as part of the process of their practice." - Sue Bond, The Compulsive Reader (http://www.compulsivereader.com/) // Any reviewer would be hard-pressed to find flaws or omissions in this impressive, scholarly work...Overall, Researching Creative Writing is lucidly-written, logically-structured, and convincingly argued. It offers a concise overview of the field and creative-critical discourse. It is a lighthouse in the pea soup surrounding practice-based research, and as such is useful and welcome." - Kevan Manwaring, Writing in Education

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