In the past several years, I've tried many, many different workshop methodologies--the full class single-paper workshop one day, followed by small-group workshops the next; round-robin workshops; lightning critiques; the simple exchange/read/comment; send your draft to a peer through email and use Word to comment/merge; in-class electronic workshopping with a peer; in-class polishing at the computer …
Sentence Imitations for Structure
Today in Composition, we spent some time on one last-minute edit of the first project before it was turned in, and I was interested to note how many typos, dropped and misspelled words were corrected! Hopefully, this kind of attention to detail will improve in later projects; to help ensure that happens, I've asked students …
Workshopping, Round 1
This morning in comp 102, we held our first workshopping day, and I've got mixed feelings about it. It's hard to read one's own work critically, true--but I still feel that looking at others' work is an important first step. Workshopping helps us acheive the degree of distance necessary to a critical examination of one's …
Tonya Howe 