Lindemann says, “Planned carefully, writing
workshops realize the primary objective of a writing course: students and
teachers writing, reading, discussing, and improving one another’s work” (208). I had not participated in a writer’s workshop
in a long time, although I’ve had my high school students take part in such
workshops regularly. I forgot how helpful, enjoyable, and constructive they are
to me as a writer. I think writers workshops are very crucial in order to get
students out of the habit of viewing “rewriting as more than editing,
polishing, or proofreading, as more than correcting flaws in papers we’ve
already graded” (210). Writer’s workshops are invaluable in getting the kind of
feedback that will immensely improve one’s work, if one is open to such critique
and group work dynamic, because ultimately one gets a different perspective and
lens on what has been written.
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