Students in a distance learning English Composition class meet as a writer's group for the first time and discuss their class assignment - writing about a past experience or memory. They demonstrate how writing ideas can originate in personal experience. close captioned.

This video discusses what it means to "be a writer" and explains the basic steps in the writing process: invention, delivery, and revision.

Members of a student writer's group demonstrate the peer review process, discussing the strengths and weaknesses of their essays. The power of collective experience and 'memory' in a writer's work is explored and emphasized.