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    How to Start, Join & Make the Most of a Writing Group: A Quick Guide for Classrooms and Writing Groups—Includes Peer Critique Tips! Companion to The Art of the Essay
    How to Start, Join & Make the Most of a Writing Group: A Quick Guide for Classrooms and Writing Groups—Includes Peer Critique Tips! Companion to The Art of the Essay
    How to Start, Join & Make the Most of a Writing Group: A Quick Guide for Classrooms and Writing Groups—Includes Peer Critique Tips! Companion to The Art of the Essay
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    How to Start, Join & Make the Most of a Writing Group: A Quick Guide for Classrooms and Writing Groups—Includes Peer Critique Tips! Companion to The Art of the Essay

    By Charity Singleton Craig

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    This quick guide includes the questions you want to ask before starting a writing group (or joining a pre-existing one), and it gives you direction for best practices and growth. It also gives you a very helpful way to approach the critique aspect of your meeting times—to minimize problems and maximize the great feedback that can be yours (and that you can give to others).

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherT.S. Poetry Press
    Release dateJul 29, 2019
    ISBN9781943120345
    How to Start, Join & Make the Most of a Writing Group: A Quick Guide for Classrooms and Writing Groups—Includes Peer Critique Tips! Companion to The Art of the Essay
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    Charity Singleton Craig

    Charity Singleton Craig has served as an editor at Tweetspeak Poetry and is a corporate communications specialist. She has appeared in various venues including Grub Street and Edible Indy.

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      How to Start, Join & Make the Most of a Writing Group - Charity Singleton Craig

      a good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends

      –friedrich nietzsche

      How to Start, Join

      & Make the Most of a

      Writing Group

      a quick guide for classrooms

      and writing groups

      includes peer critique tips!

      c h a r i t y s i n g l e t o n c r a i g

      companion to The Art of the Essay

      T. S. Poetry Press • New York

      T. S. Poetry Press

      Ossining, New York

      Tspoetry.com

      © 2019, Charity Singleton Craig

      All rights reserved. Do not reprint without permission.

      Cover image by L.L. Barkat

      ISBN 978-1-943120-34-5

      Craig, Charity Singleton

      [Nonfiction/Writing]

      How to Start, Join & Make the Most of a Writing Group:

      A Quick Guide for Classrooms and Writing Groups.

      Includes peer critique tips! Companion to The Art of the Essay

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