Thursday, April 29, 2010


University of Central Florida has created Knights Write, which will provide support to faculty members in all disciplines to integrate writing into their courses. Their goal is "to help students develop into more effective and versatile writers. UCF's would be only the second writing across the curriculum program at a Florida public university. It could potentially grow into the largest such program in the country" (Heston, 2010). 


We need to encourage this in elementary, junior, and high school: journals, reflections, multi-genre writing. 

"...preservice teachers, at a minimum, should complete at least one course dedicated to process writing and/or writing-to-learn concepts and strategies. Anything less will leave them ill-prepared to incorporate such ideas and methods into their own classrooms (Totten, 2005)."

Heston, G. April 29, 2010. New department a potential 'national model' for writing. UCF Newsroom.
Totten, S. 2005. Writing to learn for preservice teachers. The Quarterly 27(2). 

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