Adapted from Atwell, N., Lessons That Change Writers , Portsmouth, NH, 2002 A student works on a draft of her essay during writer's workshop Guidelines for Writer's Workshop Expectations for Writer's Workshop Find topics and purposes for your writing that matter to you, your life, who you are, and who you might become. Create and maintain plans of your territories as a writer: the ideas, topics, purposes, genres, forms, and techniques that you’d like to experience and explore. Make your own decisions about what’s working and what needs more work in pieces of your writing. Be your own first responder. Ready yourself with a critical, literary eye and ear 4. Listen to, ask questions about, and comment on others’ writing in ways that help them move their writing forward, toward literature. 5. Maintain a record of the pieces of writing you finish. File finished writing in your writing portfolio. 6. Attempt professional publication. 7. Recogn
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