Workshops

Workshops can be helpful to those who want their work to be looked at. The reader attempts to look out for the writing's strengths and weaknesses, and then suggest  different ways for revising it. The advice other people are giving to the writer helps the writer to use what is helpful, and disregard the rest. It gives the writer a chance to think hard about what their classmates are saying  about their work. The anticipation is that not only will the specific piece of writing be improved, but that their future writing attempts will also be more successful. I think workshopping hasn't been productive for me thus far. I haven't found any comments that were helpful to me. Maybe if we were in groups of two, it might be helpful.