Writing for kids with Andrew Daddo
13 AUGUST 2012
You might know him from television but Mr Andrew Daddo will share his experience as a children’s author with literature students at Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Wagga Wagga this week. Mr Daddo has written 18 best-selling books for children and teenagers. As writer-in-residence at the Booranga Writers’ Centre Mr Daddo will read some of his work and answer questions at a public event at the Wagga Wagga City Library on Tuesday 14 August at 5pm. On Thursday 16 August he will also speak to CSU students studying his collection of short stories for teenagers called DACKED! Senior Lecturer in English from CSU’s School of Humanities and Social Sciences Dr Mark MacLeod said being able to talk with an author directly about their work is a fantastic learning opportunity. “Regardless of the discipline, we are communicating all day long and while emailing and texting are convenient, they are notoriously bad at conveying the subtleties of language,” he said. “Having a fiction writer on campus is an opportunity for us to learn more about the ways we can use language to communicate our intentions more precisely and to target specific audiences.”
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