Chapter 12 In the Writer's Workshop
9. Compare and contrast a first draft of a paper you wrote with a final draft. Make a copy of your first draft on your computer or word processor and triple space between lines. In the margins and spaces, note where you made significant changes to the draft as you revised it. Retrace the steps you took to get from the first to the last draft. How and why did you make the changes you did? What effect did those changes have on the final draft? What did you learn about the writing process while revising the original draft?
10. Find an interview with a writer. . . . Write a case study about the writer, focusing on the writer's particular composing process and how he or she goes about revising. Then compare the process with your own.
15. Choose someone you know who absolutely hates to write, and study his or her process of composing a single essay for a class. Ask the writer to describe the difficulties he or she has with writing. What obstacles did the writer encounter? Did he or she overcome them? If so, how? If not, why? Using the writer's drafts and interviews, compose a case history.
16. Choose someone who is in love with writing, and repeat Activity 15. Then write a case history comparing the avid writer with the frustrated writer. See if you can pinpoint specific features of both writers' processes that made writing particular pieces good or bad experiences for them.
Murray, Donald. M. Write to Learn. Orlando: Harcourt Brace College, 1998.
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