ABSTRACT
In English, though all reading is active, creative writing particularly stresses heuristic learning: heuristic means learning by doing, finding out, rather than being told or by simply analysing. Intertextuality leads to one of the techniques that English has learned from creative writing and perhaps the most widely practiced in English courses at school and university level: critical rewriting. Creative writing is active reading. In this way, creative writing and critical rewriting are changing the nuts and bolts of how English is studied and taught. It is often assessed by both a piece of creative work and a piece of reflective work. Creative writing stresses the creativity at work in all responses to literary art. If the main form of assessment for creative writing has been the creative work together with some reflective work, the main form of teaching creative writing has been the workshop or seminar.
