On November 30th, Cheryl Smith and I will be giving a revision workshop at the CUNY’s WAC meeting. The description of the workshop is pasted below. We were thinking about distributing a bibliography of current research on the subject. We’re just beginning to put it together and would welcome any suggestions.
Working with the Draft: Techniques for Helping Students Revise
WAC practitioners traditionally argue that the best way to use writing effectively in our teaching is to scaffold assignments, moving from low stakes (or informal) free-writing and pre-writing to more high stakes drafting and revising of essays. But once students have completed their first drafts of an essay assignment, how can we use those drafts as a teaching tool? A teacher’s careful comments can certainly guide students in their revision process, but relying on this single technique may not always help students develop as self-sufficient, powerful, and active writers. How can we help them understand the most fundamental element of writing-revision-and grow as confident and careful readers of their own and their peers’ work? The session will take participants through a variety of student-centered draft revision activities that can be used in courses across disciplines.
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