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The structure of these writing programs formed the basis of NWP's "teachers-teaching-teachers" model of professional development. By 1976, the NWP had grown to 14 sites in six states. Over the next 15 years, the network continued to grow, with funding for writing project sites made possible by foundation grants and matching funds from local ...
826 National is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping students, ages 6–18, improve their expository and creative writing skills. [1] The organization's eight chapters include 826 Valencia in San Francisco, 826NYC in Brooklyn, 826LA in Los Angeles, 826CHI in Chicago, 826Michigan (serving Ann Arbor, Detroit, and Ypsilanti), 826 Boston in Boston, 826DC in Washington, DC, 826 New Orleans ...
First-year composition is designed to meet the goals for successful completion set forth by the Council of Writing Program Administrators. [16] To reach these goals, students must learn rhetorical conventions, critical thinking skills, information literacy, and the process of writing an academic paper. There is no standard curriculum for first ...
Spells Writing Lab, Inc. (formerly Spells Writing Center, Inc.) aka (“Spells”) is a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that develops the creative and expository writing abilities of school-age children, 6 to 18 years old, through writing programs and teacher development.
The Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) is a nonprofit literary organization that provides support, advocacy, resources, and community to nearly 50,000 writers, 500 college and university creative writing programs, and 125 writers' conferences and centers.
The Do the Write Thing Challenge (or DtWT) is a writing program for junior high students organized by the U.S. National Campaign to Stop Violence. [1] [2] [3] Intended to reduce youth violence, the Do the Write Thing Essay Challenge Program began in 1994 as a local program in Washington, D.C. and expanded in 1996 to other cities.
David Bartholomae argued basic writing as a program was a form of maintaining the status quo and that the purpose and definition of basic writing should be a continually contested term. [35] Peter Adams released preliminary data showing students placed into basic writing courses at the Community College of Baltimore County had extremely low ...
The Freedom Writers Foundation is a non-profit organization created to "inspire young, underprivileged students to pick up pens instead of guns." [ 1 ] It was founded by Erin Gruwell , and John Tu (cofounder of the Kingston Technology Company ) is a benefactor.