Writing Workshop
Class | FULL (Membership Required)
Writing Workshop provides a challenging but supportive environment in which participants determine and pursue individual writing intentions. The goal of the workshop is to help you best say what you want to say.
Weekly writing in and out of class is the cauldron for experiencing the four elements of writer, writing process, writing product and responding. Each writer will be asked to read their piece aloud and to direct our discussion by giving us particular questions or concerns they have about their piece. Each participant will act as an interested and lively responder for the work of every writer in the class. Our comments will begin by focusing on strengths and on what is working; then we can make suggestions about what might help improve the piece.
You, as the writer, always determine what is or is not best for your writing. Participants will experience a variety of strategies, behaviors, habits and attitudes, so they can choose those that help them improve. Uncertainty and ambiguity are part of the work, but remember that we are all in this together.
Nancy Marashio
When Nancy began teaching in 1964, English majors concentrated on learning literature. Her students were the ones who helped her see their need to experience writing about what mattered to them; in turn, their work as writers deepened their understanding of literature and language.
After teaching high school and middle school students for two decades, Nancy became a professor at River Valley Community College. At all those levels, writing remained the core of her teaching. Even now, when she meets past students, they emphasize the transformative role writing still plays in their lives.
In her previous AIL courses, Nancy used writing as the core for connecting participants to Sarah Josepha Hale medalists, Nobel Literature Laureates, Native American writers, and the local poets who shaped Visual Verse publications. This is her first AIL course on writing itself.