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How do Writing Workshops Support Doctoral Student Writers?

10/21/2020

By Jiali Wang and Jacob Steiss

In this study, Dr. Barbara Sarnecka and colleagues examine the impact of writing workshops on graduate students' writing quality, writing practices, and overall well-being.

Featured Resource: University of California, Irvine’s Writing Project

10/7/2020

When speaking about the National Writing Project, Dr. Sheridan Blau stated that

1974 was a big year for writing education in America. That summer, at the first summer institute of the first Writing Project site in the country. Jim Gray [National Writing Project founder] put into action a radically new idea about the teacher education-that successful classroom teachers make the best teachers of other teachers.

This model of teacher professional learning sparked a movement that is still growing strong today. More than 200 Writing Project sites can be found across the United States, and these sites continue to use a teachers-teaching-teachers model to build community, capacity, and passion for writing instruction. In this blog, I will highlight the teacher professional learning opportunities and the youth programming offered by one of those sites - the UC Irvine Writing Project (UCIWP).

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. The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not represent views of the Institute or the U.S. Department of Education.

How do Writing Workshops Support Doctoral Student Writers?

By Jiali Wang and Jacob Steiss

Featured Resource: University of California, Irvine’s Writing Project

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