About

Center Director

Carol Booth Olson (UCI) 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, and using multicultural literature with students of culturally diverse backgrounds.

WRITE Center: Writing Research to Improve Teaching and Evaluation

The research reported here was supported by the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, through Grant R305C190007 to University of California, Irvine. In 2025 the National Writing Project took over management of this website and project resources. The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not represent views of the Institute or the U.S. Department of Education.