Post by Azaelia on Nov 4, 2019 0:03:59 GMT -8
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OVERVIEW Our PurposeTPR's purpose is to provide an engaging and welcoming educational environment where creative minds, young and old, can develop and harness their skills as storytellers. TPR has proven to be a wonderful and powerful tool not just for growing writers, but for growing individuals as well. So, aside from being a great place to develop new writing skills, TPR is also here to help us come out of our shells and learn the values of a strong, inviting community and family. About the Workshops In order to emphasize both aspects of community and education in TPR, we have put together a bi-weekly writing workshop where members can improve their skills together in an interactive and supportive environment. Every two weeks, a writing prompt will be posted under this board which you may respond to. Each prompt will be different from the last and will vary in purpose (that is, the educational goal of the prompt), format (how the exercise is to be written), and size (how long the response should be). Prompts will be peer-reviewed and workshopped by designated writing mentors, giving members the opportunity to improve their skills by having their work evaluated both by their peers and by experienced writers. HOW IT WORKS A bi-weekly prompt will be posted in thread form under this board by a designated mentor. It may focus on character development, writing visual or emotional details, storytelling, etc. For example, a prompt may give you a list of words that describe emotions and ask you to use a selection of them in a paragraph that shows your character going through emotional change. The prompt will also detail its purpose, some writing examples, some online resources if necessary, a suggested post length, the evaluation criteria, and further instructions. The Response You will post your response under the same thread as the prompt. Do your best to follow the prompt and its given criteria. It is important that while you are writing, you are always remaining conscious of the prompt's purpose. For example, if the purpose is to be as vividly detailed as you can without going over the word limit, you should focus more on how you can use language patterns to effectively describe your mind's image rather than throwing in big, descriptive words that are hard to understand by the average audience. Peer Review Members can respond to each other's responses in a positive and helpful manner. Reviews should point out any errors, give any tips they have found useful in their own experience, and compliment what they like about the response, and perhaps detail how that can be brought out even more. As writers, it is imperative that we have others review our work. We do not spot our errors as easily as others do. Have you ever turned in an essay and gotten points taken off for things you know you could have seen yourself? Like misspellings or a formatting error? You may want another student to check your work for errors and give you any pointers before you turn your work in. This is why the peer-review takes place before the evaluation. The Evaluation Designated mentors will be tasked with doing the final evaluation for each prompt. They will be much like the peer reviews in that they will critique in a positive and helpful manner, pointing out strengths and weaknesses in your response, but our experienced writers will give you more in-depth evaluations as to what you, specifically, can do to improve your writing. Your evaluators are here to help you, not to judge you. Their evaluations will aid you in your real-life writing courses, and can very well prepare you for your high school to college level exams (SAT, WPA), and will definitely make you a far more equipped roleplayer on TPR! Do trust your mentors. They are here to serve you. Feel free to ask them questions about the prompt or inquire about their given evaluations. REWARDS Responses Each writing prompt will have a different reward depending on its difficulty level. Rewards will usually take the form of B. Every single person who writes a response to the prompt will earn the stated reward. Peer Reviews Every peer review will reward 50B. Mentors A mentor will receive 100B for every response they evaluate, and another 50B for any prompts they design and post themselves. Mentors will have the ability to create their own prompts, post them, and evaluate member responses. Anybody, staff included, who wants to become a workshop mentor must meet the following criteria: 1. Must have a high school diploma Exception: If you do not have a high school diploma but have passed an AP writing course, you may qualify. 2. Must have mentor experience I.E. tutoring, helping siblings in their writing courses, leadership and/or job positions in which you facilitate growth, etc. 3. Must have extra curricular writing experience: Any educational writing experience not part of mandatory GE, such as AP writing in high school or specialized writing courses in college. 4. Must get 85% or higher on the application, which tests your literacy level. If you lack any of these criteria but believe you can still be a good workshop mentor, you can still fill out a mentor application. We need to make sure that all of our mentors are qualified to educate. It would be a disservice to our growing writers to be taught incorrectly and have it affect their grades and careers. You can trust that the individuals who we do select as writing mentors are absolutely qualified to evaluate works of writing and educate you properly. |
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