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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Monday, June 22, 2009 8:20 PM CDT
EIU receives grant for writing project

CHARLESTON — Eastern Illinois University has received a $46,000 grant from the National Writing Project to continue the Eastern Illinois Writing Project.

As part of the project, local teachers have been invited to participate in summer and school year programs focused on improving student writing and learning.

Leading the local writing project effort is Robin L. Murray, professor of English at EIU, who foresees that teachers will welcome this opportunity: “The Eastern Illinois Writing Project adheres to the principles that the best teachers of teachers are other teachers, and the best teachers of writing are writers themselves.”

The project will provide K-16 teachers across the curriculum with opportunities to improve student writing and learning; extend uses of writing in all disciplines; provide schools with an effective in-service model; identify, celebrate, and enhance the professional role of successful classroom teachers; and apply a teacher-centered model to implement these goals.

The National Writing Project, a federally funded professional development program with nearly 200 sites including the new site in Charleston, provided more than 7,000 programs for K-16 teachers across the country last year. The emphasis on writing, while not new to the writing project, is particularly timely as both the SAT and ACT have added writing components to their college admission tests.

The second Eastern Illinois University Writing Project summer institute will be held from July 6-30. Participating teachers will study successful classroom strategies for teaching writing, read and discuss research, and improve their knowledge of writing by writing themselves.

More information about the National Writing Project is available at www.nwp.org. More information about Eastern’s writing project is available at www.eiu.edu/~easternnwp.

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