User:Lstockington/Iowa Writers' Workshop/Laurenen2004 Peer Review

Methodology[edit]
The Iowa Writer's Workshop was formed by Norman Foerster's passionate support for creative writing and Wilbur Schramm's conviction that writing should be as technical and rigorous a pursuit as any traditional literature degree. The workshop model for higher education creative writing was created in that pursuit of technical intensity. The model constantly exposed students to outside opinions on their Fiction and created a pressurized atmosphere which forced students to reign in their emotional reactions and consider their own writing from an analytical angle. The Iowa Writers Workshop operated without the characteristic assumption of the time that artists needed to be unleashed, instead the workshop opted to focus and refine them. While intended to service fiction writers, the Iowa Writers Workshop began to change in the 1970's when it's first Non-Fiction Thesis was accepted. Ever since the Workshop has produced groundbreaking literary journalists and shaped public perception of creative non-fiction.

Comments:

- Good work on the methodology, I think it's an important part of the article that was missing and it clears up a lot of things now that you've incorporated it

- I think there are some very small grammar mistakes that once fixed would make the flow of this paragraph a lot stronger

- I also think the manner in which you write about the Iowa Writer's Workshop is very positive, but it may help make your article stronger or more unbiased if this section didn't portray the work shop in such an appraising light. It may be helpful to include information that displays some negative or not entirely positive review of the workshop despite it being an extremely revered program.

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