Organizing and maintaining peer-writing groups

Peer-writing groups create collaboration, community, accountability, and ongoing momentum. One of the most valuable benefits of these groups is that writers gain insights into their own writing from peers across a variety of disciplines and/or research areas. Group discussions can enhance writers’ awareness of texts and genre conventions and offer supportive motivation to continue writing. Writing groups can also be facilitated by writing instructors and writing support staff, who can offer additional expertise and insights as well as fostering in-depth discussions about various writing practices. This workshop is intended to familiarize attendees with strategies that they can use to guide others in organizing successful, long-term writing groups. Participants will be introduced to strategies such as how to structure the work of a peer-writing group; what the roles of facilitators are; how to give feedback on writing in progress; and what tools can be used to foster the writing and revision processes. The workshop is open to writing instructors and writing center staff from both HSE and other Russian universities. Speaker: Leslie Dupont ABOUT THE HSE AWC The HSE Academic Writing Center (AWC) is a collaborative space where university faculty and researchers can get language support at any time. JOIN US AWC website: Subscribe to the AWC newsletter: