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Instructors of college-level fiction writing courses typically employ some form of the workshop method developed at the University of Iowa in the first half of the twentieth century. While many workshop variations exist, the basic principle is that students produce original short stories that are read and critiqued by other members of class and the instructor (Donnelly, 2012).
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Hergenrader, T. (2014). Exploring Imaginary Maps. In: Gerber, H.R., Abrams, S.S. (eds) Bridging Literacies with Videogames. Gaming Ecologies and Pedagogies Series. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-668-4_2
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