Habits of the Creative Mind
Third Edition| ©2024 Richard E. Miller; Ann Jurecic
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Inspire creativity and curiosity with Habits of the Creative Mind
A unique resource for first-year composition, Habits of the Creative Mind encourages college writers to be curious and follow their own paths in order to discover their own interests. Portable and flexibly arranged, the third edition of this innovative text offers frameworks to develop persistence in planning, revising, and learning from failure, with all new examples of writers at work on interesting problems as models for reflection.
Features
Habits of the Creative Mind includes ten Habits of Mind that are teachable and flexible, and will help students develop the habits of being curious about the world, of being open to other ways of seeing things, and of embracing complexity as a precondition for understanding anything that is truly important.
Habits of the Creative Mind includes eighty-three practice sessions that ask students to do all sorts of writing and all sorts of research. They focus student attention on the mental operations that drive the work of the intellectually curious and creative mind—connecting, reading, reflecting, and researching, as well as writing and revising.
Habits of the Creative Mind includes six readings that are habits put into action. Reading and discussing the published words of creative minds is an essential part of learning what the habits look like when put into action. Each of the six readings, found at the end of the book, are new to the third edition, and are the result of a curious and creative mind working on a problem. As a collection, the readings provide a suggestive spectrum of the many ways that writing can be used as a technology to generate new thoughts.
New to This Edition
The Habits of Mind have been brought into an even sharper focus with Rethinking and Wondering; supporting students as they develop the habits of being curious about the world, of being open to other ways of seeing things, and of embracing complexity as a precondition for understanding anything that is truly important.
Exemplary writers have been brought into the conversation with new essays that discuss writing by Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Julia Alvarez, Jia Tolentino, Cathy Park Hong, and Jesmyn Ward.
New practice sessions highlight the creative opportunities that bilingualism and multilingualism open up; use genealogies to raise questions about identity; consider the cultural divides exposed by the pandemic; invite discussions of the future of women’s rights; and ask students to imagine a nonverbal, nonvisual form of communication.
Six new readings replace the five readings in the previous edition. Pieces by Eula Biss, Frederick Douglass, Cathy Park Hong, Andrew Leland, Jia Tolentino, and Jesmyn Ward invite students to focus their creative energies on some of the most pressing issues of our time: public health, women’s rights, citizenship, the lives and rights of the differently abled, the wealth gap, and shifting foundations for defining the self.
“For me, this book aligns perfectly with how I approach teaching writing. It encourages exploration, curiosity, and creativity (both in thinking and writing). I especially appreciate the way it presents everything as a ‘habit of mind.’ Its exactly what Im looking for.” — Casey Pycior, University of Southern Indiana
“This text seeks to help students understand both the importance of writing and how various support systems (in class and beyond) work to help them become the best writers theyre capable of becoming.” — Darren DeFrain, Wichita State University
“The focus on inquiry, challenge, and creativity — an artistic process — not only makes for better writers, but it has allowed me to talk about how the ways we write mirror the way we are in relation to other human beings, to ideas, to the plants. It allows me to raise ethical considerations about how we work with language.” — Sarah Ehrich, Boston College
"This is the writing textbook Ive been looking for! Habits of the Creative Mind facilitates deep critical and creative thinking about ideas and about the writing process." — Carol Bledsoe, Florida Gulf Coast University
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Habits of the Creative Mind
Third Edition| ©2024
Richard E. Miller; Ann Jurecic
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Habits of the Creative Mind
Third Edition| 2024
Richard E. Miller; Ann Jurecic
Table of Contents
Preface
ONE: Orienting
On Habits
On Unlearning
On a Space of Your Own
TWO: Paying Attention
On Learning to See
On Looking and Looking Again
On Paying Attention to Words
THREE: Questioning
On Asking Good Questions
On Writing to a Question
On Question-Driven Writing
FOUR: Exploring
On Going Down the Rabbit Hole
On Creative Reading
On Choosing Your Own Adventure
FIVE: Connecting
On the Three Most Important Words in the English Language
On Joining the Conversation
On Working with the Words of Others
SIX: Reflecting
On Seeing as a Writer
On Reading as a Writer
On Reading in Slow Motion
SEVEN: Persisting
On Encountering Difficulty
On Learning from Failure
On Thinking Unthinkable Thoughts
EIGHT: Rethinking
On Letting Go of Writing-by-Formula
On Structure
On Revising
NINE: Wondering
On Argument as Journey
On Imagining Alternatives
On Complexity
TEN: Playing
On Laughter
On Bending Conventions
On the Joys of Pseudonymous Writing
Readings
Frederick Douglass, The Woman’s Cause
Eula Biss, Excerpt from On Immunity: An Inoculation
Cathy Park Hong, Bad English
Andrew Leland, DeafBlind Communities May Be Creating a New Language of Touch
Jia Tolentino, Can Motherhood Be a Form of Rebellion?
Jesmyn Ward, Cracking the Code
Authors
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Richard E. Miller
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Ann Jurecic
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Third Edition| 2024
Richard E. Miller; Ann Jurecic
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