During the Summer Institutes, participants read widely in the current research on writing, hear lectures, discuss aspects of the writing process and effective teaching techniques, and work continuously on their own writing, consulting frequently with one another in editing groups for criticism and encouragement. The essays, vignettes, and poems collected in these booklets, chosen by their authors with the advice of the other members of their groups, represent a small sample of the writing that they produce during the summer. 

It is a basic principle of the Connecticut Writing Project that teachers who themselves write can best help their students to write well. By drafting, discussing, and revising compositions in each of four modes of discourse - personal, objective, analytical, and persuasive - the participants in the Summer Institute develop their understanding of the writing process through first-hand experience. In so doing, they also produce the rich and delightfully readable anthology of works in progress that you will find in each edition.

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	Teacher-Writer 2024.pdf Shut Up!  It's a Surprise! (Volume XVI)	Teacher-Writer 2023.pdf They're Tree People . . . They Know Things (Volume XV)	Teacher-Writer 2022.pdf Cult Reads Into the Silence (Volume XIV)	Teacher-Writer 2021 If I Had a Mimosa, I Wouldn't Be on Mute! (Volume XIII)
Teacher-Writer 2020: .pdfUnmute: (Re)Imagining Voices (Volume XII)	Teacher-Writer 2019.pdf: (Volume XI)	Teacher-Writer 2018: .pdf Misspelled Made Up Words (Volume X)	Teacher-Writer 2017:.pdf Game of Roses (Volume IX)	Teacher-Writer 2016:.pdf Baker's Dozen: May Contain Nuts (Volume VIII)
Teacher-Writer 2015: .pdfTales From the Meat Locker (Volume VII)	Teacher-Writer 2014: .pdfSurviving the Zombie Apocalypse (Volume VI)	Teacher-Writer 2013: .pdfAnd then the guy got up and left (Volume V)	Teacher-Writer 2012.pdf: It Sounded Like a Good Idea in March (Volume IV)	Summer Institute Fellows 2011: .pdf Of Vice and Verse (Volume III)
Summer Institute Fellows 2010:.pdf No Unexpressed Thoughts	Summer Institute Fellows 2009:.pdf I've Climbed this Staircase Before	Summer Institute Fellows 2008:.pdf The Dirty Dozen, Plus Three	Summer Institute Fellows 2007.pdf: Spill the Coffee, Crappy Desks, Dang!	Summer Institute Fellows 2005:.pdf Boing!
Summer Institute Fellows 2004:.pdf Rooms of Gold	.pdf Summer Institute Fellows 2003:.pdf Surprises!	Summer Institute Fellows 2002: Look What We Did!	Summer Institute Fellows 2001: Runes	Summer Institute Fellows 2000:.pdf Composition Theory & Other Mysteries
Summer Institute Fellows 1999:.pdf Writing on the Wall	Summer Institute Fellows 1998: Sleepless in Connecticut	Summer Institute Fellows 1997:.pdf Real Words, Real Worlds	Summer Institute Fellows 1996:.pdf What Calvin Heard	Summer Institute Fellows 1995: Whatever It is, It Should Be a Metaphor
Summer Institute Fellows 1994: Inner Voices	Summer Institute Fellows 1993: Sidewalks & Scaffolding	Summer Institute Fellows 1992: Paradigm Lost	Summer Institute Fellows 1991: Segues	Summer Institute Fellows 1991: My Word! Modes of Discourse
Summer Institute Fellows 1990: Teaching on the "Edge"	Summer Institute Fellows 1990: Este Bombus Aliquid Significat	Summer Institute Fellows 1989: Voices	.pdf Summer Institute Fellows 1988.pdf: Writes of Fellowship	Summer Institute Fellows 1988: Soundings
Summer Institute Fellows 1987: Heavy Meta-Morphosis	Summer Institute Fellows 1987: Alchemy	Summer Institute Fellows 1986: Flurries	Summer Institute Fellows 1985: Musings & Meanings	Summer Institute Fellows 1985: Grace Under Pressure
Summer Institute Fellows 1984: Writings III	Summer Institute Fellows 1983: Vision and Revisions	Summer Institute Fellows 1982: Doughnuts and Dittos