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The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Faculty Development Program (CLAS FDP) will facilitate the formation of writing circles. These writing circles will provide a consistently scheduled support structure for authors to receive feedback from peers in their discipline or related disciplines to enhance their efforts of writing for publication. The CLAS FDP will collect information from faculty interested in participating and set up the circles. The circles are designed to have 4 members and meet for one hour, twice a month.
Writing circles follow these guidelines:
- Participants commit to writing for 15-30 minutes on their own a minimum of five days per week and to be accountable to the group for their writing. Writing may constitute any of the following activities: writing, reviewing a rough draft or central thesis of the work in progress, studying and as necessary modifying previously written sentences etc. Writing logs are available for download from the CLAS FDP website.
- Participants agree not only to track their own writing time but also to review the progress of other members of the group so that everyone can become more aware of their own blocks to writing.
- At the meetings twice each month, participants bring 4 copies of a short (> 4 pages) work in progress. In the fifteen minutes allotted each member, the circle will read the provided text and identify key sentences/ideas in each paragraph (5 minutes). The next 5 minutes will be spent discussing why each member chose the specific sentences/ideas and the impact those ideas had upon them as readers. The last 5 minutes will be spent on getting input on paragraphs, sections or the work as a whole, answering questions that the writer may have.
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Writing Circles 
