This article describes the interpretive paraphrase class workshop method, which emphasizes dialogue as a centerpiece of the composing process and provides students with opportunities to re-envision their compositions based on the alternative readings of their peers. A major goal of this writing workshop is to create and sustain student-talk about writing. The interpretative-paraphrase workshop helps foster a more developed sense of audience in student writers by allowing real audiences--interested classmates--to dramatize timely, relevant responses and enter into direct dialogue.