About the WRITE Center
The WRITE (Writing Research to Improve Teaching and Evaluation) Center for Secondary Students researches academic writing in middle and high school. We are extending best practices learned in the English language arts classrooms from three nationally recognized interventions into history classes. The WRITE Center is excited to provide middle and high school history teachers with the tools and strategies to improve their students' source-based argument writing, a critical component not only of Common Core State Standards, but academic and professional writing.
We partner with teachers and administrators to create relevant and practical professional development opportunities. In addition, we are using quantitative and qualitative research methods, including data mining techniques and automated natural language processing, to look at existing source-based writing samples from ELA classes to understand the development of good writers longitudinally, which will then be compared to writing in history classes to understand the similarities and differences between the two contexts.
We partner with teachers and administrators to create relevant and practical professional development opportunities. In addition, we are using quantitative and qualitative research methods, including data mining techniques and automated natural language processing, to look at existing source-based writing samples from ELA classes to understand the development of good writers longitudinally, which will then be compared to writing in history classes to understand the similarities and differences between the two contexts.
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Team Members
PI/Center Director
Carol Booth Olson (UCI) Co-PIs Steve Graham (ASU) Mark Warschauer (UCI) Tanya Baker (National Writing Project) Co-Investigators Young-Suk Kim (UCI) Penelope Collins (UCI) Robin Scarcella (UCI) Nicole Gilbertson (UCI) Catherine D’Aoust (UCI) Methodologist George Farkas (UCI) Center Associates (National Writing Project) Elyse Eidman-Aadahl Linda Friedrich Luke Hokama Research Scientists Huy Chung Tamara Tate Jenell Krishnan Research Assistant Jazmin Cruz Graduate Student Researchers Minkyung Cho Jacob Steiss Jiali Wang |
Carol Booth Olson, Center Director
Carol Booth Olson is Director of the WRITE Center and Professor Emerita in the School of Education at the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Olson has authored several books, including The Reading-Writing Connection, and published over thirty journal articles on interactive strategies for teaching writing, fostering critical thinking through writing, using multicultural literature with students of culturally diverse backgrounds, and more.
Advisory Board Members
Jim Burke
Jennifer Fletcher Cynthia Greenleaf Kelly Gallagher Carol Jago Judith Langer David Pearson Chauncey Monte-Sano George Newell Mary Schleppgrell Sam Wineburg |
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