Workshop

Being familiar with workshops in previous courses, I can definitely see the appeal for teachers to implement the participation of workshops. It is not only a critical tool used to help enhance your writing abilities, but it is also fun and informative in a classroom setting. As young writers we often feel our materials are not adequate enough and so we often create barriers. These barriers creates doubt and hinder the creative, reasoning, and thought process involved in all successful literary works. Reading a fellow students work helps release some of the stresses as you can equate the imperfection within the work to your own novices. Not only do we sometimes get the informative feedback from our peers, but in the process of "work-shopping" someone else paper, you too are learning from the mistakes made. You observe new approaches and ideas to writing different from your own and as a result, you grow as a writer.

Workshops are a simple way of getting access to the many and multitudes of different styles and creations of writing from people like you and me. After all, isn't that what being a writer is all about; learning from the mistakes you make through constructive criticism. 

Workshops can be done in numerous ways as long as the inner workings and intent is there. The purpose is to leave a better writer, with new and inventive ideas that you can always apply to writing later on.

Note: Workshops only work if participants participate :-)