Abstract

The majority of writing approaches used in classrooms today focuses on the systematic completion of writing tasks. This article provides a different focus as it explores the inner compulsion to write while in role. It outlines the commonalities that exist between the process of writing and process drama. In a process drama writers are liberated, particularly the reticent or reluctant writer, because they are launched into another place at another time as another person.

Highlights

  • What is the commonality between the process of writing and process drama? In order to answer this question, I look at Grave’s (1991) model of writing and compare it to process drama

  • The compatibility arises because in a process drama, teacher intervention occurs throughout the drama’s development and new learning occurs as a direct result of the experience within the drama

  • Cross (1999) suggests that we are afraid of the imagination, and yet, how can we teach our students to become writers if we do not first teach them to allow their imaginations to spiral? In a process drama, imaginative involvement expands and serves as a powerful stimulus for writing

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Summary

Leonora Macy

The drama work took the students outside themselves and their classroom and into unique spaces and places for writing; spaces and places that were imaginary, playful, engaging, and authentic. (Schneider & Jackson, 2000). Writing workshop (Graves, 1983, 1991) and cross-curricula thematic approaches (Tompkins, 1994) have become the norm in many language arts classrooms These approaches focus on the completion of writing tasks in a systematic manner. My need to focus on the use of drama as part of the writing process arose as a result of teaching language arts and educational drama both at the elementary and undergraduate level. These students have helped me revisit the idea that writing needs to be embedded in a context that has personal significance for the writer. I look at how students use their newly created voices outside of drama time, and I briefly look at the notion of voice that emerges in role creation

Process Writing and Process Drama
Drama and the Reticent Writer
Writing in Role
Drama and Voice Inside and Outside of the Drama
Conclusion
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