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The UnEssay: Making Room for Creativity in the Composition Classroom
- Source: College Composition & Communication, Volume 67, Issue 1, Sep 2015, p. 6 - 34
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- 01 Sep 2015
Abstract
There has been a remarkable surge of interest in creativity in a wide variety of disciplines in recent years. Taken in aggregate, this body of work now theorizes creativity as a—foundational aspect of human cognition and intelligence. If we theorize creativity as a highly sophisticated and valuable form of cognition, it must also then be regarded as a necessary—and indispensable part of the curriculum in the writing classroom.
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