AWP in New York this year. I’ll be joining Mike Steinberg, Bob Root and Lad Tobin for a panel discussion entitled “Recognizing Common Ground: Creative Writing as Composition Teachers.” My bit is about encouraging students to move beyond the usual “narrative” (sometimes referred to as the “remembered event” in textbooks) in first-year writing courses. Creative writers, particularly creative nonfiction writers can offer students the opportunity to do more with their personal essays.
Here, you can find a handout on what I’m talking about, my assignment, and a couple of warm up journal entries. Here too, I have a couple of sample student journal entries and corresponding final essays ( a few more to come). I’ll link things up here, and as soon as I figure out how to do this right, I’ll post these things along the side of the page, along with some of my other essays, which you might want to read 
Jessica Pleyel’s Journal Entry #3
