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A sense of play and creativity encourages engagement in any activity, and college writing is no exception. Play helps “gratify desires that can’t be immediately fulfilled in order to relive tension,” states The Typist in an engaging blog post called "Creative Writing and Composition: Do They Go Together Like Peanut Butter and Thumbtacks?" The Typist's post, written by an English instructor from Springfield, Missouri, goes on to praise the introducing of playful and creative classroom activities and assignments in the composition classroom. To summarize, when students feel unfettered or free from the confines of the five-paragraph essay, their writing becomes more lively, passionate, and engaging.
The task, then, is for writing faculty to find ways for play and creativity to be incorporated into the composition classroom.