Yeah, guys includes women. I'm getting very American, doing me best anyway.
Thanks for the strategies, Liz, this all helps me a lot.
Mairead
On Sat, 5 Oct 2002 [log in to unmask] wrote:
> In a message dated 10/4/02 6:37:46 GMT Daylight Time, [log in to unmask]
> writes:
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> > I'd be interested to know from you guys of your experience of creative
> > writing models other than the workshop.
> >
>
> I've got a language problem here - does 'guys' include women? If it does
> then my contribution is to say that I never ask students to say what is
> _wrong_ with each other's work but what is _right_ with it. We do
exercises
> like one of Erin's - passing a piece around the group and each underlining a
> phrase or line that we think the best.... when the writer gets the piece back
> they have to work from the underlined words and let the rest fall away (at
> least for one redrafting.....)
>
> I spend a lot of time working around 'transformations' of existent
> texts...... teaching them to do free writing........ doing writing exercises
> together and pooling ideas/lines/vocab....... doing cut-ups of different
> kinds and taking language from wherever they can find it. We all get used to
> writing together and collaborating (I always join in any exercises I am
> leading) so that dialogue can happen without a need to be critical or say
> negative things.
>
> We have fun and students keep coming back to the group. (Which is a voluntary
> extra with no credit)
>
> Liz
>
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