Writing Project Gives Nebraska Teachers Confidence

Publication: Omaha World-Herald
Date: January 25, 2010

Summary: The Oxbow Writing Project, a new writing project site located at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, is planning events for teachers to discuss effective and ineffective methods of classroom writing instruction.

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For four weeks, these teachers will discuss effective and ineffective methods of classroom writing instruction. They will talk about tapping into teenagers' love for texting and tweeting and use that technology to the writing instructor's advantage.

And they will write. A lot.

"It can be a life-changing event," said Wilma Kuhlman, a UNO education professor, a one-time participant in a Missouri writing project and now co-leader of the new UNO writing project. "It can change oneself from someone who writes to someone who is a writer."

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