What is a writers workshop?

A writers workshop is a seminar to help people write material in their own language.

The workshop may include instruction on how to write and edit such materials. It may also include production time including actually printing simple books for distribution.

See the following portions of on-line books for more information:

• Bootstrap Literature, How to conduct a writer training workshop

See the following online articles for more information:

• An advanced writers workshop in Colombia
• The Blitz writer's workshop
• First writers workshop on Easter Island
• Gando becomes a written language
• “I remember when …”
• Lecture outline
• Notes on a monodialectal writers workshop
• Organizing a successful writers workshop
• Some ways to encourage advanced students to write
• Suriname writers workshop
• Training writers
• Two Mapuche writers workshops
• Writer training as a help to translation training
• A writer's contest and its spin-offs
• A simple writers' workshop

• Concept module: writers workshop
• In overview module: Glossary (Literacy): W
• In modular book: Glossary of literacy terms
• In document collection: Reference materials
• In bookshelf: Literacy

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 4.0, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

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