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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![]() Tales From the Meat Locker 2015 (Volume VII) |
![]() Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse, 2014 (Volume VI) |
![]() And then the guy got up and left 2013 (Volume V) |
![]() Teacher-Writer 2012, (Volume IV) |
![]() Of Vice and Verse, 2011 Summer Institute Fellows |
![]() No Unexpressed Thoughts, 2010 Summer Institute Fellows |
![]() I've Climbed this Staircase Before, 2009 Summer Institute Fellows |
![]() The Dirty Dozen, Plus Three, 2008 Summer Institute Fellows |
![]() Spill the Coffee, Crappy Desks, Dang!, 2007 Summer Institute Fellows |
2006 | ![]() Boing! 2005 |
![]() Rooms of Gold 2004 |
![]() Surprises! 2003 |
![]() Look What We Did! 2002 |
![]() Runes 2001 |
Composition Theory & Other Mysteries 2000 |
![]() Writing on the Wall 1999 |
![]() Sleepless in Connecicut 1998 |
![]() Real Words, Real Worlds 1997 |
![]() What Calvin Heard 1996 |
![]() ..It Should Be a Metaphor 1995 |
![]() Inner Voices 1994 |
![]() Sidewalks & Scaffolding 1993 |
![]() Paradigm Lost 1992 |
![]() Segues 1991 |
![]() My Word! Modes of Discourse 1991 |
![]() Teaching on the "Edge" 1990 |
![]() Este Bombus Aliquid Significat 1990 |
![]() Voices 1989 |
Writes of Fellowship 1988 |
![]() Soundings 1988 |
![]() Heavy Meta-Morphosis 1987 |
![]() Alchemy 1987 |
![]() Flurries 1986 |
![]() Musings & Meanings 1985 |
![]() Grace Under Pressure 1985 |
![]() Writings III 1984 |
![]() Vision and Revisions 1983 |
![]() Doughnuts and Dittos, 1982 |