Doing creative writing

Pedagogical resource. This is a book for those teaching, and students taking or thinking of taking a university course in Creative Writing. Its originality consists in the combination of research into student perspectives (derived from two English Subject Centre projects), with research into the varieties of course offered in a wide range of contexts, in an attempt to define the current, and suggest the proper, nature of a creative writing degree. It is significant because creative writing is still ill-defined as an academic discipline. The writer's objective was to synthesise professional and academic perspectives to provide a model for creative writing as an academic discipline,