İletişim Öğrencileriyle Sanat Destekli Yazı Çalışmaları: Yaratıcı Yazarlık

This study examines the use of art and aesthetics as one of the methods of opening perceptions in writing trainings. Seeks answers to questions such as: "How do art and aesthetics affect creativity in humans?", "Is it possible to encourage creativity-originality?" It also tries to contribute to the answer to the question: "What is creativity?" As it is known, art and artist are inspired by nature. Those who want to improve their writing skills can start from the aesthetic aspects of art. After all, creative writing is also a type of art production that usually takes place through writing. Educators who want to teach creative writing can use works of art as an educational tool that provides inspiration in the development of these skills. Communication faculties and journalism departments do not only train students to write routine news. Training given under the general heading of journalism; It also prepares employees for television, new media and magazines. These types of media, especially new media, are channels that require highly creative employees. In this context, in order to encourage students to love writing and to help them create their original style in the articles they will write, in lessons such as Newspaper Writing Types and Magazine Workshop, art works; It can be used as a tool to guide thinking and writing. This study supports the assumption, "The ability of art to open up human perceptions contributes to the writing skills of students on the road to writing.” In the study, by taking an elective course in Maltepe University Faculty of Communication; 15 students who attended the 'Magazine Writing' course were asked whether they could write a story by looking at a painting of an artist. Winslow Homer's painting called The Gulf Stream is used. 10 out of 15 students answered that when I look at this picture, “I can write a story” and wrote their original stories and essays. Before showing the art work, many stated that they could not write a story out of the blue.