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from 2014

How is this different than Nancie Atwell? I thought she established the "workshop" model twenty years prior, as documented in "In the Middle". No? I think Calkins is a bit more structured overall, and perhaps more age appropriate, but can someone explain why Calkins is not the next step in Atwell.

Atwell's book is here: [1], and here, in a new edition: [2]. I haven't read it. I would say, though, that the "Writing Workshop" page is occupying some pretty prime meme-estate. There have been other efforts to create Writers' Workshops with various flavors over the decades, and this page doesn't deal with that legacy. <trollface> Problem? Arided (talk) 18:14, 29 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I added a "Notability" template and a "For..." template. The format of references needs some cleaning up, for sure. Maybe the page would be better-suited for Wikiversity? Arided (talk) 19:43, 29 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I have now set up a disambig page using the original page name "Writing Workshop", and have migrated this to a more specific page (Writing Workshop (Graves, et al.)). However, the name still doesn't feel right. Should it be "The Writing Workshop" or "Writing Workshop (Schools)" or something else?

This article seems to be about a specific model developed for kids and advanced as a "brand name", but it also partially conflates multiple other things to do with general writing workshops.

I'm wondering whether we actually need to merge this and Writers workshop (activity), to provide a full history of the creative writing workshop (from at least as far back as Workshop 47)? The conflations would then be moved into the overall history of the workshop, as appropriate, to make things clearer.

This "branded" workshop model would then just be one model detailed, alongside the Princeton and Iowa models, and wouldn't get its own page.

Thoughts? Lewisguile (talk) 09:58, 12 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Any thoughts on the new naming and sharpening of focus? Do we need more on the reading side of the project? Lewisguile (talk) 15:33, 14 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]