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I am a graduate student in language education and would like to ask all 
of you teachers out there to help me with my research.  This is 
particularly addressed to elementary school (K-6) teachers, although 
others should feel free to respond as well.  Please don't feel you have 
to just answer the questions below.  They are there to guide your 
thinking, but longer responses are greatly appreciated.  Finally, if 
you could send or copy your reply to me by email it would be very 
helpful.  My news server doesn't always pick up all of the articles.

My questions are:

Have you heard of teaching writing using a technique called "Writers' 
workshop"?
Do you use this technique (or have you used it)?
If yes, what have you found to be the greatest benefits of using 
Writers' workshop?
If you don't use the technique (and you've heard of it), why don't you 
use it?  Detailed responses are greatly appreciated to this question.

Thanks in advance,
Carla
Idahoans@earthlink.net