New Workshops!

Hey all!

Hope you've all been having a rocking month. February is over and TSW has been busy so we're sorry for no blog posts!

Well the first thing that we wish to share is that TSW was at the Karachi Literature Festival held on 11 - 12th Feb 2012. It was a pleasant experience and the response to our much loved game "Write - A - Line Competition was invigorating and overwhelming and we recieved participants of all age groups.
We stayed uber busy through out the whole two days and thoroughly enjoyed the intellectual experience of Karachi Literature Festival.

To view the winning entries and pictures of  the KLF - Write - A - Line Competition, please view our Facebook Page

Also, The School of Writing is pleased to share its new and exclusive workshop offered for students and teachers for the month of March 2012.

The Art of Teaching Essay Writing with Fatima Shahbuddin – A 2 days workshop specifically for teachers to help them focus on the importance, ease and the tiny nuances of Essay Writing and how to aid and over come the obstacles and barriers faced by the students in Essay Writing. This workshop will focus on the methods, different approaches and techniques including the 5-paragraph essays, 6 traits of writing, and/or process writing activities that teachers can use to teach essay writing.

Communication Skills for Young Learners with Rehmat Ebrahiem - A 2 days activity based training programme to help you know yourself, your peers, manage friendships, deal with adults, teachers, parents and others. Participants will gain conceptual understanding, practice strategies and techniques through different activities, including problem-solving and decision making tasks. They will be introduced to a variety of easy-to-use intellectual tools that they can use as productive contributors to their own development.

Writing Camp for O&A Level Students 2012 - This 12 days course focuses closely on all English Language problems faced by O and A Level students highlighting all aspects of essay writing, letter writing, creative writing or academic writing, poetry, prose and plays with accordance to the current O and A level syllabus. We guarantee you’ll leave with a strong grasp on the English Language and you will be able to ace your exams in no time at all.

If you're interested or want to register than you can always email us at: info@theschoolofwriting.org or call us at +92 21 354 44519

We hope to hear from you soon ,
Happy Writing!

Travelogues: A Thousand Words for a Picture

Hello!

We've got something exciting planned for all of you!

Frere Hall - Saddar

It is pretty well heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, well, we decided to take you up on that. The School of Writing introduces the Travelogue Workshop, Memoirs of City starting from 11th February 2012 till 31st March 2012, every Saturday.
The Workshop focuses on combining the aspects of photography and writing to teach you how to write a Travelogue but what is a Travelogue?

Fun Times with Friends 

A Travelogue is a record or a diary of the events, sights and personal experiences that a traveller experiences as they go from one place to another. You can include anything in your travelogue, from the majestic and breath taking architecture to goofing around with friends on the way to your destination. Often times, the image remains but you somehow forget what that special joke etc was that made the trip so memorable. Or, it could be the scrumptious food you dined on, the animals you say, the green lush landscape or the people that you met who made the trip so enjoyable. It really is up to you to choose what to include in your travelogue and decide on aspects that made the trip noteworthy in your eyes. 

St. Patrick's Cathedral - Saddar

Sea View 

The TSW Travelogue Workshop will help guide beginners to learn how to carefully choose what to include or what not to, how to edit through their work and where to see the beauty in our own city. This Travelogue workshop on a selected area in Karachi is a chance for you to see and realize how much you love your own city, how you can find hidden beauty in it's architecture, people and culture. The whole purpose of the workshop is to help you fall in love again with the bright vibrant city by looking at the city through the perspective of your lens. Karachi is not only the biggest city of Pakistan but is also a mix of diverse cultures with many areas of the city reflecting these different cultural influences. Living in such a diverse and hustling bustling city, how can you not want to capture every moment and write it down. 

The city is full of  quaint surprises and we are here to help you find them!

For more information about the Travelogue Workshop visit our website: The School of Writing or visit our Facebook Page: The School of Writing 

2012 - Here's to a Happy New Year!

Dear All,
Lets bid a fond farewell to the year 2011 by having a flashback of TSW events of 2011.
We'll start off with the first event of the year 2011 and progress onward from there:


Creative Writing Workshop and Public Reading -  May 3, 2011 
A half day course for Teachers where specialists from the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa USA,visited Karachi and facilitated the workshop and read excerpts from their recent works to a select audience of teachers as well as share tips and tricks on the latest trends in teaching creative writing.

TSW with IWP participants and facilitators

Field Visit Report Writing – June 16, 2011 - A one day workshop to help develop the skill to write and understand easy to read, concise, yet complete field visit reports.

Write-A-Line Competition - June 20, 2011 to June 23, 2011- 

A 4 days competition where all visitors at the Park Towers Mall could participate in. Everyday, a new subject/picture would be posted/displayed at the TSW kiosk and participants simply had to write a line based on the subject. The best line would win a prize and each day, 5 winners were announced. This received a lot of public attention as people loved the idea of writing a line to win. 

ABL Writing Workshop –  July 4, 2011 to July 18, 2011

A 10 days workshop focusing on writing. Modeled on the pattern of Andover Bread Loaf Writing Workshops, USA, the workshop also included:

The Students at State Bank Museum Pakistan

• Field trips to Mohatta Palace and State Bank Museum and Art Gallery to provide them with inspiring environments to write in.
• Publishing opportunities including blogs and print media.
• Guest speakers and interactions with local authors/writers.

Write-A-Line Competition - Oct 14, 2011 to Oct 16, 2011
A 3 day competition in which all visitors at the SPELT Conference were invited to participate in. The participants had to write their best line on the subject picture displayed at the TSW kiosk. Each day, the 5 best lines were announced.


The Art of Teaching Essay Writing with Fatima Shahbuddin - Nov 25, 2011 to Nov 26, 2011

Participants of TSW Workshop

A two day workshop exclusively to help teachers focus on the importance, ease and the tiny nuances of Essay Writing facilitated by Ms. Shahabuddin who posses over 30yrs of expertise as an English teacher. The participating teachers were from The City School (PAF Chapter), The Springfield School, Usman Public School, Chiniot Islamia School and Ghulaman -e- Abbas School.


Well there you have it, an overview of 2011
As is quite common and has become quite a tradition, has anyone taken the time out to make a New Year Resolution for 2012?
How about you learn to be a better writer with TSW?
The School of Writing looks forward to having another fun filled year with your participation in our writing workshops but most of all, we'd like to wish you a Happy New Year :)


Happy Writing!


For more information about TSW please visit our website: http://www.theschoolofwriting.org/index.php
Or our Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/TheSchoolofWriting

Writing for Yourself with TSW's Help

Dear All,

Welcome to The School of Writing's Blog. 

Thank you for having shown such keen interest in us and so causing us to make this blog. The purpose of this blog is to keep you updated about the latest and upcoming events of The School of Writing.

Not only will you be able to receive updates but you will also be able to read articles, essays, poems and any other piece of writing that people have produced during The School of Writing's Workshops, Online Competitions or other promotions as this blog is meant to showcase and highlight their work.

A lot of people do not seem to understand that Writing has served as a medium of communication in our lives since a very long time. It is a part of our history as mankind. As soon as Man made a language for himself, he found the need to keep a record of what he said and did and who he communicated with. Man was no longer satisfied with relying on his memory, which must have failed him several times. 

At first, pictures were made to suffice for the need to record everything. However, the nature of writing has been constantly evolving, and it has evolved from pictures to symbols to letters, particularly due to the development of new technologies over the centuries. 

Writing helps us to be able to break boundaries and express ourselves to people all over the world. It creates a certain immortality, which could not be experienced without writing as it is one of the universal mediums of communication despite the language barrier. Not only do we connect with other people, we learn to connect with ourselves because:

      "The pen is the tongue of the mind." - Miguel de Cervantes

Socially, writing is seen as an authoritative means of communication, from legal documentation, law and the media everything is produced through this medium.

Even if a plan must be formulated, it first needs to be put in writing before it can be finessed and worked on. 

Yes, writing is a time consuming activity but it doesn't have to be a tedious, dull task and no matter how hard a student will try to avoid it, writing letters, essays and emails are an integral part of everyday life that help to shape a person's personality, future career and his role in a company/organization.
If one does not know the proper terminology or usage of the English Language then their progress in the world is very limited as English and Writing have become synonymous with Universality as Writing is the most common means of Communication and English is the most common language for writing. 

However, throughout the centuries, the art and skill of writing has been downplayed to a certain extent as to leave it rather forlornly neglected.

And this is where The School of Writing steps in ... we are on a mission to not only breathe new life in to writing but altogether change the dreary outlook and concept of writing via The School of Writing's Writing workshops. 

The School of Writing Workshops not only aims to assist the students to better learn to express themselves but also aim to provide a platform to all the shy writers to reveal their work to the world. 

Let us help to show the world that there is beauty in words!

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