By: Emily, Chowan University

Emily, Chowan University — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:01:20 +0000

Papatya: That’s an interesting idea. I think that it’s important for student writers to realize that other people will interpret their works in ways unexpected — and perhaps having students treat something for workshop in the same way that we treat a piece of literature might create some different insights into the way that the work is received.
It also occurs to me that writing discussion questions about a written work might be useful in critical classrooms as well — students might bring questions about, say, the implications of the line of thought in a draft of a research paper that would be more useful than “This doesn’t make sense to me.”

By: Papatya, Florida Atlantic University

Papatya, Florida Atlantic University — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:59:00 +0000

I like the possibility of doing something similar in a creative writing workshop–asking students to bring questions (rather than just answers) to the workshop could yield more discussion of writing technique than prescriptive recommendations sometimes do…

Comments on: Student-directed Questioning

By: Emily, Chowan University

By: Papatya, Florida Atlantic University