Twine as a Digital Tool in Writing Digital Fiction: A Creative Writing Instruction in Higher Education

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10.2991/978-2-38476-054-1_18How to use a DOI?

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Creative writing; Digital fiction; Digital writing tool; Twine

Abstract

Digital writing tool has been a support in the field of teaching and learning English as it helps modify students’ writing into a better composition. Features in Twine as a digital writing tool build students’ creativity, and hence it potentially becomes a part of creative writing instruction for EFL students. The purposes of this study were to determine the progression of students’ digital fiction writing, the procedure facilitating the progress, and students’ perspectives on the usage of Twine as a digital writing tool. A qualitative case study was designed to address the objectives by doing observation, documentation, and interview. The participants were 3 EFL students who took a Creative Writing course in a state university in South Sumatra, Indonesia. Data from observation and interview were analyzed using observation sheet and thematic analysis respectively, while data from documentation were assessed using a creative writing rubric. The findings show that the plot of the students’ writing and language use developed from the developing stage to above average, and this was facilitated by the phase of integrating Twine into the lesson such as drafting story, branching story, creating images, audio, and video. Peer and lecturer feedback were claimed to support the students’ writing progress. Finally, the students realize that Twine is beneficial for writing stories because it fosters motivation, creativity, and critical thinking.

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AU  - Fiftinova
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AU  - Muslih Hambali
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/05/18
TI  - Twine as a Digital Tool in Writing Digital Fiction: A Creative Writing Instruction in Higher Education
BT  - Proceedings of the 20th AsiaTEFL-68th TEFLIN-5th iNELTAL Conference (ASIATEFL 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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