States that a writing workshop environment is a radical approach to teaching, one that requires instructors to empower children to make choices and take responsibility for them. Discusses collaboration, classroom structures, and the need for democratic disposition in a writing workshop. Concludes that the implementation of a writing workshop…

This paper discusses the use of process writing to assist middle and junior high school students in becoming competent, confident mathematical problem solvers and communicators. The process writing technique involves students in four recursive, overlapping stages in writing: rehearsing, drafting, responding, and revising. Students utilize this…