Books in the Frameworks for Writing series

Investigative Creative Writing is Mark Spitzer's lively and original treatment of creative writing practice and teaching within a college/university environment.

The book offers a new methodology for teaching academic writing informed by discourse analysis and genre theory and by recent research in text analysis. The book draws on accessible articles presenting popular science topics of current interest to illustrate and practice the processes involved in developing and writing an academic essay.

Provides a collection of methods and techniques for eliciting and working on students' writing in a college or university environment. This work describes the situations in which the activity has been tried, what the results have been, and how the activity has been modified accordingly.