https://padlet.com/ncsu/520S18_WritingWorkshop 520-S18: What comes to mind when you hear the term writing workshop? What associations, experiences, knowledge do you have with/of writing workshop? en-us 2018-02-06 01:47:50 UTC 2025-08-21 14:19:27 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/333374/07aef7100bd3b118f11ca5a43d2ec6af/writing_scrabble_tiles.jpg dcachin https://padlet.com/ncsu/520S18_WritingWorkshop/wish/228903862 When I think of the term writing workshop, I think of an isolated rectangular room.  A sweatshop where students are forced to do hard work against their wills by hardcore drill instructors. However, that is not what I actually think about writing workshops themselves. The name association of writing workshop makes me think of a sweatshop. However, writing workshops themselves are more like sweet shops that provide great opportunities for students' writing skills to blossom, flourish, and grow bigger than the size of the giant bean stock that's from the Jack and The beanstock. Students can expand their horizons and treat themselves to ever diverse ideas.

]]> 2018-02-06 23:57:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ncsu/520S18_WritingWorkshop/wish/228903862 https://padlet.com/ncsu/520S18_WritingWorkshop/wish/228903868 Writing workshop is something I would like to get much better at as a teacher.

I feel that I have been able to do the process of writing (modeled handouts and such) well, but the concept of a free-flowing, choice-based writing workshop is my goal.  

I did not experience writing workshop as a student as I did not learn to write (with the exception of the 10th grade NC writing test) as a student.

I think to teach writing workshop the way I would like to, I need to :
-Establish a creative feeling in my classroom.
-Let go of some forms and structures that seem important to be but might not be.
-Be specific about my goals for each workshop.
-Continue basing writing on student interest.]]> 2018-02-06 23:57:58 UTC https://padlet.com/ncsu/520S18_WritingWorkshop/wish/228903868 https://padlet.com/ncsu/520S18_WritingWorkshop/wish/228903883 *Writing workshop is a collaboration of writers, all engaged in their craft.
*Writing workshop can serve as a developmental experience for new/seasoned writers.
*Writing workshop should allow students freedom to simply write
*Writing workshop is an opportunity to revisit and revise ideas in a safe space; discovery.]]> 2018-02-06 23:58:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ncsu/520S18_WritingWorkshop/wish/228903883 https://padlet.com/ncsu/520S18_WritingWorkshop/wish/228903922 Writing workshop wasn't a social or collaborative act when I was in school. Writing was private and the revision process was directly with the teacher either through conferencing or feedback on my paper.
When I was a teacher, the writing process and workshop changed. It became a collaborative and social act. I wanted my students to discuss their topics, generate ideas both individually and in groups for inspiration and to develop further ideas. My students worked with each other to provide meaning feedback and to boost confidence. Their work was shared and celebrated.]]> 2018-02-06 23:58:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ncsu/520S18_WritingWorkshop/wish/228903922 mstaylor_reads https://padlet.com/ncsu/520S18_WritingWorkshop/wish/228903931 When I think of writing workshop, I think of students being able to write real world writing. They get to focus on pieces that are important to them and focus on an intentional audience. This personal connection with writing allows the writing to be enjoyable. Students get a chance to work through the writing process multiple times and are able to find the process that works well for them. I also think about how students learn how to discuss their writing with each other. There becomes a community of writers where they are able to get feedback from multiple writers in the room. ]]> 2018-02-06 23:58:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ncsu/520S18_WritingWorkshop/wish/228903931 https://padlet.com/ncsu/520S18_WritingWorkshop/wish/228903933 My first experience with WW was in college in my teaching composition course. It was the first time I felt like writing was every seriously addressed as a subject unto itself, and it was the first time I felt like the content of what I wrote was ever really taken seriously beyond a teacher evaluating it for a class in the past.]]> 2018-02-06 23:58:21 UTC https://padlet.com/ncsu/520S18_WritingWorkshop/wish/228903933 https://padlet.com/ncsu/520S18_WritingWorkshop/wish/228903955 Writing workshop, in my mind, is like a collaborative activity that everyone can post and share their writing.  
I personally have not had any experience about writing workshop. However, I think it's a meaningful and interesting process that everyone may keeping writing and communicating with each other. It would be more serious and quiet than some conversation. ]]> 2018-02-06 23:58:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ncsu/520S18_WritingWorkshop/wish/228903955 https://padlet.com/ncsu/520S18_WritingWorkshop/wish/228903956 Writing workshop is a rigorous comfortable zone for people to communicate about writing via writing. For students, writing workshop can be a community in which they can share their ideas and passions. Meanwhile they can get inspirations during this process. ]]> 2018-02-06 23:58:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ncsu/520S18_WritingWorkshop/wish/228903956 https://padlet.com/ncsu/520S18_WritingWorkshop/wish/228903963 Writing workshop means carving time out for thinking and writing. It allows for a process to take place. Writing workshops are a time for discovery and drafting. They allow for the individual process of writing, but also for collaboration with peers and teachers. Writing workshops were not very common when I was in school. If we had a writing workshop, it was individual time that we spent writing and following up with the teacher on an assignment. ]]> 2018-02-06 23:58:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ncsu/520S18_WritingWorkshop/wish/228903963 https://padlet.com/ncsu/520S18_WritingWorkshop/wish/228903965 I think of an extended amount of time focused on improving writing collaboratively.
I remember doing these from time to time, but I feel like the time was usually limited.]]> 2018-02-06 23:58:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ncsu/520S18_WritingWorkshop/wish/228903965 https://padlet.com/ncsu/520S18_WritingWorkshop/wish/228904011 I haven't had any experiences with the writing workshop. :( My teachers didn't use them when I was in high school. 

But I think of idea generation, research, inquiry. Lots of interaction between writers and their peers, as well as student and teacher. I think of sharing and publication, the importance of audience. And new methods of assessment that focus on process and product. 

I've never seen a workshop in action, but I imagine a much more disorganized, noisy scene than students simply sitting at their desks writing quietly.


]]> 2018-02-06 23:58:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ncsu/520S18_WritingWorkshop/wish/228904011 cwang50 https://padlet.com/ncsu/520S18_WritingWorkshop/wish/228904063 It gives us opportunities focus on writing,
 I mean, only doing writing, the real writing.]]> 2018-02-06 23:59:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ncsu/520S18_WritingWorkshop/wish/228904063 https://padlet.com/ncsu/520S18_WritingWorkshop/wish/228904137 community-driven method of sharing and gaining exposure to writing. Improving your writing, very hands-on, and experimental. Perhaps trying a new writing exercise to help with brainstorming or creative ways to help you revise. Judgement free zone. Everyone there voluntarily with a similar goal.

A focus would be on the social part of writing to take advantage of the different perspectives that surround you

Analogy: wood shop in school. Working a particular project but utilizing the resources around you. You may be great using the jigsaw, but terrible at smoothing the wood. You can have a friend who is better at one particular aspect help you or show you how to perform his skill. All of it is with the same goal in mind - shaping your wood into your project to the best it can be. A project that you're happy with.]]> 2018-02-06 23:59:42 UTC https://padlet.com/ncsu/520S18_WritingWorkshop/wish/228904137 https://padlet.com/ncsu/520S18_WritingWorkshop/wish/228904197 WW is collaborative in terms of sharing and providing feedback, while also support of the individual as writer. Involves individual writing, conferencing, modeling, sharing, discussing, responding and providing constructive feedback.

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