Through essays and practical tasks, this book aims to stimulate creativity so that the reader becomes familiar with their own strengths. Including the author's journey from writer's block back to productive work, this book takes the reader across America from New York to New Mexico. It is for those on the path to creativity.
Spoken Word in the UK is a comprehensive and in-depth introduction to spoken word performance in the UK - its origins and development, its performers and audiences, and the vast array of different styles and characteristics that make it unique.
In Story Machines, two pioneers of creative artificial intelligence explore the design and impact of AI story generators. The book covers three themes: language generators that compose coherent text, storyworlds with believable characters, and AI models of human storytellers.
Autoethnographic and autobiographical explorations of social identities and relationships, (un)belonging, and how practitioners and academics do their work. They show the ongoing need to rethink and re-examine how to do critical and engaging scholarly work. Life stories are necessarily, messy, complex and personal experiences. 34 b/w illus.
A comprehensive update to the field, this book presents source-based writing as an essential skill that comes with its own specific set of challenges, requiring a complex set of literacy skills and capabilities for mastery.