The necessity of influence:New Writingarticles and establishing creative writing scholarship

Abstract

As creative writing studies develops, it will draw upon previous scholarship in articles published in flagship journals like New Writing. This study examines the first nine years of New Writing articles and finds that use of citations increases over this period, and authors cite a core group of scholars frequently, building an academic canon. Additionally, some articles demonstrate an awareness of a scholarly community through sentence-subjects. Overall, it appears that creative writing studies articles in New Writing are invoking the influence of those scholars who came before.

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