DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND LITERARY STUDIES
BAUCHI STATE UNIVERSITY, GADAU
ENG3309: CREATIVE WRITING II
FIRST SEMESTER 2023/2024
OBJECTIVES
➢ Overview of Writing Process
➢ Pre-writing
➢ Choosing what to write
➢ Purpose of writing
➢ Determining Audience
➢ Drafting
➢ Reviewing
• Definition of Creative Writing
• Purpose of Creative Writing
• Skills of Creative Writers
WRITING
• Writing is one of the skills of language
• It is a powerful and versatile means of communication that
allows individuals to express thoughts, ideas, and information in
a structured and coherent manner.
• It involves use of sign and symbols.
• It bridges gaps in time and space, allowing ideas to be shared
across distances.
TYPES OF WRITING
• Fiction & Non Fiction
• Technical & Popular (Popular culture)
• Formal & Informal
WHY DO WE WRITE?
• People write for different reasons or purposes.
• These purposes can be grouped under types of
writing.
NARRATIVE WRITING
• Recounts a personal experience in the form
of a story and always includes characters,
setting, and plot
• Examples: short story, novel, narrative poem,
journal
DESCRIPTIVE WRITING
• uses vivid images to describe a
person, place, or event so that the
topic can be clearly “seen” in the
reader’s mind.
• Examples: menu, travel brochure,
poster
EXPOSITORY WRITING
• provides information that explains, clarifies, or
defines
➢increase a reader's knowledge,
➢ help a reader better understand a process, and
➢ help to enhance a reader's comprehension of a
concept or an idea.
➢Examples: essay, research paper, report, manual
PERSUASIVE WRITING
• gives an opinion using facts that
attempts to convince a reader to
agree with a writer’s belief
• Examples: movie review, critique, letter
to a newspaper editor, essay
PRE-WRITING STAGE
• Read, think, free-writing
• Choose a topic
➢ Environment
➢ Events
➢ Individuals
➢ History
➢ Myth
➢ Legend
PRE-WRITING STAGE 2
• Identify purpose and • choose a right place and
audience time
• Research, take notes, gather
information
• Brainstorm with a peer
group
• Organize thinking/ideas
DRAFTING STAGE
➢ Presentation of ideas
➢ Paragraph development
➢ Focus on content
➢ Compose freely, without concern for mechanics
REVIEWING/REVISING STAGE
➢ Maintain focus on content vs. mechanics
➢ Share draft with peer group
➢ Invite discussion, accept response and helpful input from peers
➢ Add to, delete from, rearrange and revise first draft
➢ Rewrite
EDITING/PROOFREADING
• Share revised draft with peer group
• Invite correction of grammar, spelling, punctuation, usage
• Incorporate corrections in final draft
PUBLISHING STAGE
➢ Sharing with others
(dramatizations, small group reports, individual oral presentations, etc.)
➢ Invite evaluation by peer group
➢ Submit for final evaluation by teacher
• CREATIVE WRITING
CREATIVE WRITING
WHAT IS CREATIVE WRITING?
• Creative writing is a writing that involves the
imagination & invention of content.
• Creative writing is anything where the purpose is
to express thoughts, feelings and emotions rather
than to simply convey information.
WHAT IS CREATIVE WRITING? 2
• It involves the skillful and imaginative production of something original.
• It is a type of writing that is not within the bound of normal professional
writing.
• Any writing, fiction, or non-fiction that goes outside the bounds of normal
professional, journalistic, academic, and fictional forms of literature.
PURPOSE OF CREATIVE WRITING
• Writing is like a journey that you cannot just set out on aimlessly.
• You cannot just write without having a good reason why you would like
to do so.
• To
• Entertain the reader
• Educate, record
• Communicate ideas (across cultures, time and age)
• Keep Diaries, Develop talent, as profession,
TYPES OF CREATIVE WRITING
• Examples: short story, novel and epics, poem, play
ELEMENTS OF CREATIVE WRITING
• The features include:
ideas, feelings, point-of-view, and special use of language which make
expression of an experience more pleasurable and memorable.
The use of suspense, foreshadowing, surprise, humour,
hyperbole, deflation, and other figures of speech and
soundare essential elements of creative writing used to
keep the reader’s attention.
SKILLS FOR CREATIVE WRITERS
• Trained sense organs :smell, taste, sight, hearing and feelings should be
provided
• Provide details of who/what, how, why, when and opinion
• Observation: put more emphasis on outstanding or unusual qualities
of the person object or place
• Capture readers’ attention and interest
SKILLS FOR CREATIVE WRITERS 2
• Knowledge of the topic
• Current affairs
• Critical thinking
• Imaginative skills
• Thinking and rethinking
• Reading skills
• Writing and rewriting
• Questioning Skills
CLASS EXERCISES
• Think of any topic of your choice and write about it in not more than
one page.
JOURNAL PROMPTS - ALL ABOUT YOU
1. What kind of day are you having, and why?
2. What's your favorite color, place, food, book, song, or movie, and why?
3. What do you like to do? How does it make you feel?
4. Where are you happiest? Describe that place.
5. What's something you're good at? What makes you good at it?
6. What do you consider to be your culture, and how do you feel about it?
7. What would you change about yourself or your life? Is there a way for you to change it?
8. What is your relationship like with various members of your family?
9. If you have brothers or sisters, how are you similar to them or different from them? What about with
your friends?
[Link] are your views on religion?
[Link] keeps you up at night worrying? Are your worries realistic? Is there anything you can do about
them?
[Link] you have a philosophy of life? If so, what is it? If not, what is your method for making important
decisions?
[Link] what areas are you optimistic, and in what areas are you pessimistic?
[Link] are your most prized possessions?
JOURNAL PROMPTS - ALL ABOUT YOU
1. Who is someone you miss?
2. What is something someone else has that you envy? Describe it and your feelings about it.
3. What is a book, movie, song, or television program that has influenced you, and how?
4. What is a mistake people often make about you?
5. What's something you disagree with about the way you were raised?
6. What's your favorite: season, color, place, or food? Describe it.
7. Describe your dream: job, man/woman, house.
8. How would you like your life to be when you're older?
9. What would be the guest list at your dream party? What would the various guests talk
about?
[Link] magic power would you like to have? How would you use it? What would it feel like?
[Link] you won the lottery, what would you do?
[Link]'s a country you'd like to visit? How do you imagine your time there?
REFERENCES
• Adegbite, W., Adekoya, S., & Adegoju, A. (2012). (ed). Use of English: A manual on
communicative skills for tertiary institutions. Lagos, Nigeria: Ulas Ventures.
• Carter, J. (2001). Creating writers. London: Routledge Falmer.
• Dewey, Stephen (2009). What is Creative Writing? New Delhi: Orange Hills.
• Hedge, T. (1988). Writing. Oxford: Oxford University Press
• Holder, R. W. (1996). A Dictionary of Euphemisms. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
• Meyer, M. (1987). The Bedford Introduction to Literature. New York: St. Martin’s
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• Morley, D. (2007). Creative writing. Cambridge University Press.
