One of the objectives of producing UpWords is to develop the writing abilities and produce some good reporters able to document events in our community. Recently, Betsy Alkenbrack was introduced to us, to become our mentor for this. (from “Editorial — Food for Thought” by Hendrik Beune in UpWords 2(2) July 2006.)
I worked with the UpWords group for about six months, as Hendrik says, in a mentoring capacity. And the Editorial group’s reflection on this experience shows that they experienced my participation as a Capilano instructor quite differently from the WISH research participants. They had quite specific suggestions, mainly related to support for their writing. These included:
One participants added: You got me back into writing again!
(Upwards Focus Group)