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I need to prepare a workshop about editing and revising. Do you have any suggestions?

Hard to contribute unless you specify which level and how many students and where. I like the method of editing and revising that involves others. The students write something on a paper that has been folded in half. They write on the left side and then go over their writing and comment on the right. They can put down anything on the righthand colomn such as, "I did this and think it is right but can't remember why." or "I am not sure about this" or...
Then they get together in groups and discuss their difficulties and can pass their papers around to get further comments. This is called "Ink Shedding" I think. The teacher can take out examples and show them on an overhead and the class can work through them. The same for organization and flow of the writing. You can diagram it to see if it flows smoothly or is missing information and add questions to illicit the information. You can share the products on a chat line or bulletin board and get comments from others outside the classroom. I might have the participants in the workshop write for the first half hour on how they teach editing and revising, why, what feedback they get from the students, what their frustrations are and what their usual final results are. Then I would get them in groups to pass around their papers to read and comment in writing on, and then as the facilitator circulating in the room and hearing comments and reading quickly, I would take some examples and highlight them as a summary for the workshop. I would try and establish a chat line to keep up the discussion and let teachers post examples they are having trouble with in their classrooms and ask them to join the orginization called "Ink Shedders" as there is a lot of information on that.

Thank you for your help.They all will be collage students( traditional and/or returning adults) who are taking writing classes or any of the humanities.I don't know how many students there will be because only volunteer students will come.I guess it will be about 10 or 15 at most.

I need some more ideas about where to start and what to explain during the work shop .It will be about one hour.

I gather they are not teaching but writing themselves and you are helping them to edit and revise their own work?
I would still do the same - have them write for 15 to 20 minutes about their problems in their writing for their field. Then put them in groups of similar fields if possible and have them pass around their papers to each other for comments for 15 minutes. They can write in the margins so tell the participants to leave big margins. Roam around the classroom and pick up ideas to emphasize for the last 20 minutes or so. Again establish a chat line so the participants can follow up and get advice from their fellow participants. Make a copy of the writing and pull out similar problems for the next workshop. One hour is not going to be enough.