Writing out on a limb: integrating the creative and academic writing identity

Yoo, J

Writing out on a limb: integrating the creative and academic writing identity

Yoo, J

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Publisher:: Informa UK Limited
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: New Writing, 2017, 14, (3), pp. 444-454
Issue Date:: 2017-09-02

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dc.contributor.author	Yoo, J https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1654-3304
dc.date.accessioned	2022-08-09T05:03:13Z
dc.date.available	2022-08-09T05:03:13Z
dc.date.issued	2017-09-02
dc.identifier.citation	New Writing, 2017, 14, (3), pp. 444-454
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dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/159804
dc.description.abstract	Academic writing in higher education research is commonly perceived as the process of ‘writing up’ knowledge rather than exploring ideas. As a result, the potential to use creative writing approaches to develop and relay meaning has often been overlooked. This article investigates creative writing as a rich and meaningful mode of representation in academia. It argues how dominant institutional discourses inhibit personal voice by favouring objectivity, and further affirms that researchers need to oppose the pressures of academic writing by ‘coming into’ one’s creative writing voice and consciousness. It is anticipated that using literary and poetic devices to relay the writer’s personal and creative voice can generate research that encompasses the full richness of human experience.
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Informa UK Limited
dc.relation.ispartof	New Writing
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dc.subject	1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy, 1904 Performing Arts and Creative Writing, 2005 Literary Studies
dc.title	Writing out on a limb: integrating the creative and academic writing identity
dc.type	Journal Article
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Academic writing in higher education research is commonly perceived as the process of ‘writing up’ knowledge rather than exploring ideas. As a result, the potential to use creative writing approaches to develop and relay meaning has often been overlooked. This article investigates creative writing as a rich and meaningful mode of representation in academia. It argues how dominant institutional discourses inhibit personal voice by favouring objectivity, and further affirms that researchers need to oppose the pressures of academic writing by ‘coming into’ one’s creative writing voice and consciousness. It is anticipated that using literary and poetic devices to relay the writer’s personal and creative voice can generate research that encompasses the full richness of human experience.

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