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Resources for Supporting an Online Writing Community
For a team interested in developing and supporting an online writing community, this introduction to the NWP's former E-Anthology describes the role of responding to writing in developing community, gives helpful hints about responding online, offers a response protocol, and provides an…
Thank You for Sharing: Developing Students' Social Skills to Improve Peer Writing Conferences
In this article, Keri Franklin provides ideas and methods to prepare student authors for meaningful peer conferences which promote social talk in students’ responses to peers' writings. Students benefit from peer conferences by receiving ideas from an audience of peers and more feedback than…
Elbow Room: Tweaking Response in the Secondary Classroom
Using Peter Elbow's theory of peer response as described in Writing Without Teachers, Ann Marie Liebel began implementing response groups, providing space for her student writers to lead the way in revision. Central here are the ways she reflected as a teacher/facilitator and the ways she…
Write Now Teacher Studio
Where teachers write, share, and talk shop about writing and the teaching of writing
Hosted by the National Writing Project, the Write Now Teacher Studio is an open, online community of educators for educators. It’s a place to write together, examine our teaching, create and refine curricula, and work toward ever more effective and equitable practices to create confident, creative, and critical thinkers and writers in our classrooms and courses.