Writing Is a Foreign Language, And a Senior Writing Workshop Is a Tower of Babel Whose Many Languages Need To Be Translated

Authors

Michelle Barany

Document Type

Article

Abstract

This paper, presented at the CCCC 2008 Senior Citizens Writing session, draws upon my experiences as a senior workshop member and past teacher. Addressing workshop leaders, it emphasizes the need for the many-faceted seniors’ voices to be “translated” and tested within a workshop’s microcosm before entering the outside world’s macrocosm.

Recommended Citation

Barany, Michelle. “Writing Is a Foreign Language, And a Senior Writing Workshop Is a Tower of Babel Whose Many Languages Need To Be Translated.” Community Literacy Journal, vol. 3, no. 2, 2009, pp. 115–20, doi:10.25148/clj.3.2.009472.