An Account of Writing as Creative Design

Abstract

s guide the writing process, and a writer re-represents some of these as explicit conceptual spaces. Creativity in writing occurs through a mutually promotive cycle of engagement and reflection, both guided by constraint. A session of engaged `knowledge telling' generates written material for consideration. Reflection involves reviewing and interpreting the material as a source for contemplation. Contemplation generates new ideas which are explored and transformed, producing plans and constraints that drive a further period of engaged writing. --- 2 --- This basic creative mechanism supports a variety of writing strategies, depending on the timing and relative emphasis given to reviewing, contemplation, planning and engagement. Writing as design emphasises the writer as a user of tools and a creator of cognitive artefacts. A writer is a thinker in a self-constructed environment which affords, constrains and mediates the writing process. Writing as design emphasises the use of a prim

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