How can the workshops help students learn to shift focus from grammar and sentence structure to issues of content and organization?
This problem is best answered by using the workshop method in which you give students a topic to focus on. Spend some time at the beginning of the course explaining why grammar is important, but also emphasize that it is a lower-level concern when other structural issues are present. A secondary method involves removing the grammatical evidence: when your students don’t have a copy of the paper in front of them, they can’t play the editor; they are forced to listen and make genuine responses as an audience. So, for this reason, sometimes not having drafts in front of the students can produce higher-level discussion.
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