Chapter 2 Writing Workshop

Writing workshop is composed of writing, sharing, minilessons, and reading aloud to children. It gives children plenty of chances to experience writing process making books and many types of writing. Brown (2010) states, “Creative writing workshops offer the writer the opportunity to share his work with other like-minded individuals, to meet and greet and receive critically constructive feedback on their work.” Especially Tomkins (2008) emphasizes the importance of writing process through this chapter. He describes, “The writing process is a tool that children can use for any project, and learning that process is the most important goal of writing workshop” (p. 50). Even though writing product is as important as writing process, teachers should keep in mind the fact that writing product is only made by though writing process.

According to Jaeun Kim, students should be able to select a topic and process writing independently. I do agree with her. In essence, writing is a lonely work done by a writer himself. So teachers need to give students some time to do work by themselves. Like Jaeun said, writing workshop can be a great opportunity for students to grow their independence in writing.

References

Brown, T. (2010). The advantages of creative writing workshops. Suite101.com. Retrieved from http://www.suite101.com/content/the-advantages-of-creative-writing-workshops-a237854

Tomkins, G. E. (2008). Teaching writing: Balancing process and product. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.