A Community of Writers: A Workshop Course in Writing

Abstract

Part 1 Workshops: introduction to writing and writing process descriptive and narrative introduction to collaboration and the loop writing process private writing - pearl and open ended public writing - audience and genres interview revising persuasion the essay writing in the disciplines interpreting a text reading poems as a springboard to writing poems argument research text analysis through figurative language voice revision - purpose/audience writer's biography and your portfolio. Part 2 Mini-workshops: writing skills questionnaire double-entry or dialectical notebooks breathing life into words - text rendering and reading out loud writing with a word processor midterm and end-term responses to a writing course the sentence and end-stop punctuation commas apostrophes quotations and the punctuation of reported speech spelling copy-editing and proof-reading. Part 3 Sharing and responding: cover letter summary of kinds of responses procedures for giving and receiving responses full explanation of kinds of responses with samples sharing - no response pointing and centre of gravity summary and sayback what is almost said?, what do you want to hear more about? voice movies of the reader's mind metamorphical descriptions believing and doubting skeleton and descriptive outline evaluation by criteria sample papers.

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