Emily Duvall Workshop Response

Emily's workshop and article

Emily's workshop really opened my eyes to ways we can help prepare students for state writing tests. I appreciate that writing-test writing was considered as its own genre. This helps students separate it from their normal class writing.

I also liked how she helped us see that we can really write about almost anything. Doing these exercises frequently will help students pick a topic or stance quickly when they are taking a writing test. This activity also helped us keep humor in our writing process.

It was also interesting when she helped us to discover that almost any topic will work in almost any genre and mode. Again, this was liberating because it made me realize that a test prompt can be answered in many different ways, most of which are far more interesting than anything I would have written as a test-taker.