Writing workshop is whenever a group of writers come together, either informally or formally, to exchange writing for the purposes of offering feedback and support. Writers everywhere come together to create their own writing group to provide support for their personal writing projects. Other writers are brought to a writing workshop through education or professional demands.
A workshop offers participants a de-centralized authority. There is not one teacher or one editor, but instead all the writers take turns offering help and guidance to all the other writers involved in the workshop or group. That decentralization of authority is what both attracts and repels so many writers, educators, and professionals to the writing workshop experience. However, for many the workshop while intimidating at first becomes and incredibly powerful learning and growing experience.
Writing within a workshop mimics the actual writing process of effective writers and it provides a ready-made audience for ongoing feedback as the writing project develops. Writing is not a solitary experience but rather a social one in a writing workshop which makes it a more effective place for writers to learn more about writing in general and their own process in specific.
A workshop takes many shapes and forms depending on its location and the goals of its participants. In a classroom setting, a typical workshop includes a brief mini lesson to kick off the workshop and then a large chunk of writing work time where participants are either writing on their own or working with other writers, and then often concluding with the opportunity to share work in progress.
Writing groups that use writing workshop informally usually have to determine a procedure for sharing writing as well as providing feedback. Some will provide written copies prior to the meeting to members can bring written feedback to the meeting while others will share orally on the spot and then respond immediately. In today's electronic society, many participants never meet in purpose and instead do all their sharing in some electronic format.
Peter Elbow of Writing Without Teachers fame is said to be the father of the modern writing workshop but in fact writing workshops extend back much further in history to writing groups in industrial Europe and even in the late Renaissance. Any writer that wishes to learn and grow should look into starting or joining a writing workshop and any teacher of writing interested in inspiring their students should consider starting one in their classroom.
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