Writing across the Ages: A Working Writer's Workshop

1996 ◽  
Vol 85 (1) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Bonnie M. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Writer's Workshop

An Examination of Mindset Instruction, Self-Regulation, and Writer’s Workshop on Kindergarteners’ Writing Performance and Motivation: A Mixed-Methods Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 427-444 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie E. Schrodt ◽  
Amy M. Elleman ◽  
Erin R. FitzPatrick ◽  
Michelle M. Hasty ◽  
Jwa K. Kim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Writer's Workshop ◽  
Writing Performance

Writer's Workshop

2002 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-98
Author(s):  
Felice Picano
Keyword(s):  
Writer's Workshop

Writer's Workshop

2006 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 137-156
Author(s):  
Kelly McQuain
Keyword(s):  
Writer's Workshop

Reading Saint Flannery: Modernism, Sexuality, and the Culture of Psychoanalysis

Prospects ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 625-643
Author(s):  
James M. Mellard
Keyword(s):  
Flannery O'connor ◽  
Narrative Voice ◽  
Writer's Workshop ◽  
New Criticism ◽  
Central Image ◽  
Poetic Fiction ◽  
The University ◽  
Christian Writer ◽  
Critical Initiation

Because flannery O'CONNOR was a Christian writer who suffered considerably from a painful and debilitating disease, died young, and left a legacy of remarkable stories and novels, critics of many persuasions have canonized her in ways few writers have been canonized. Since it is hard to argue with a saint, the vast majority of readers have capitulated to O'Connor's pronouncements on how to read those works. Several critics — myself among them — have reminded us how effectively O'Connor has set the terms of the discourse about her. Working in the modernist age, she thought herself not a modernist, but a throwback to an earlier age. Consequently, one of the more interesting, but generally ignored, questions about Flannery O'Connor is how to periodize her work. Whatever her claims, it is clear she is modernist in important ways. We see that in her use of myth, for example, and in how she uses the devices of lyrical or poetic fiction such as powerful controlling metaphors and recurrent image-motifs to knit together a form in place of traditional emplotments. In her practice, moreover, she is a modernist easily allied with New Criticism. Of O'Connor's adherence to its tenets, Frederick Crews says, “As she freely admitted, she came into her own as an artist only after undergoing a full New Critical initiation at the University of Iowa's Writer's Workshop under the tutelage of Paul Engle and Andrew Lytle, with Brooks and Warren's then ubiquitous Understanding Fiction providing the models” (144). Indeed, says Crews, “Even the most impressive and original of her stories adhere to the classroom formula of her day: show, don't tell; keep the narrative voice distinct from those of your characters; cultivate understatement; develop a central image or symbol to convey your theme ‘objectively’; and point everything toward one neatly sprung ironic reversal. No one ever put it all together with greater deftness” (144–45).

How to Teach Writing Effectively in a Virtual Environment

2021 ◽  
pp. 60-79
Author(s):  
Lindsey Hays
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Virtual Environment ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Virtual Learning Environment ◽  
Classroom Culture ◽  
General Educators ◽  
Writer's Workshop ◽  
Writing Teachers ◽  
Struggling Writers ◽  
Student Writers

This chapter focuses on the challenge that many general educators face when they transition into the virtual learning environment. Even talented writing teachers struggle to shift their regular teaching practices to fit the format of online instruction. The author will address some of the pitfalls of stepping into the virtual world and then focus on the best practices for virtual writing instruction, including this author's recommended program, The Writer's Workshop by Lucy Calkins. The chapter will offer some tangible strategies for any virtual educator to teach writing in their subject area. It will also address essential contributors to student learning, like fostering a classroom culture online, assessing students, and working with struggling writers. While the virtual education field is forever evolving, teachers can benefit from practicing these strategies, as well as continuing to focus on professional development and growth in order to grow themselves and their student writers effectively.

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