VALUING CREATIVE WRITING TECHNIQUES IN SPACE REPRESENTATION AND GEOGRAPHICAL PROCESSES

Abstract

In this paper, we present some creative writing activities in which three techniques have been used: the comics, the writing marathon, and the lost manuscript. The activities were organised in a rural school, and the participants were some secondary school students. In this study we analysed the organised learning activities and their results. The tasks given, the way of organising the activities, giving positive feedback during the activities, led the students to value the activities as interesting, motivating, challenging, and to continue the writing process outside the school. As a result of applying these three creative writing techniques, the students wrote interesting narrative texts, while their degree of complexity increased by rewriting the texts, this way proving their efficiency. We came to the conclusion that one of these creative writing techniques, well explained by the teacher and correctly applied by the students, stimulated the creative process and gave them the opportunity to be as creative as possible and to create interesting stories in a geographical area described with sufficient details regarding space and time.

Keywords

• geographic space
• description
• spatial representation
• drawing
• geographical process
• rural environment