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The Minnesota Writing Project is funded in part by the Center for Writing, the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota, and the National Writing Project.

invitational institute fellows in 2002

Anna BarkerAnna Barker

Action Research: How to Help Students Be More Successful on Writing Tests
Creative Writing: A Pleasure to Be Sad
Demonstration: What do You See?


Jane BernauerJane Bernauer

Action Research: Teaching Technical Writing in the Family and Consumer Sciences Classroom
Creative Writing: Three Quilts
Demonstration: Tech Writing in the Sewing Lab


Ann BrowningAnn Browning

Creative Writing: Deacon Blues (A Work in Progress)


 

Mara CoreyMara Corey

Action Research: : Peer Conferencing
Creative Writing: Two Poems—Summer Squall and Ambition's Steps
Demonstration: Personification and Parsley: Beautifying Your Writing Without Ruining the Flavor

 


Lu CurtisLu Curtis

Action Research: Parent Involvement at the Middle School Level
Creative Writing: A Better Way
Demonstration: Memory/Bare Book

 

 

Sharon LapenskySharon Lapensky

Action Research: Feng Shui and the Arrangement of a Library Media Center
Creative Writing: Four Poems (Part One—West, Part Two—East, Mask in the Mirror, Tranquility)
Kids' Play
Demonstration: Beyond The Boring: Writing with Primary Students

 


Mary Palmer LillyMary Palmer Lilly

Action Research: Supporting ESL Learners in Writing
Creative Writing: Family
Demonstration: The Idea Web: A Graphic Organizer for Collecting Ideas

 


Anne LoweAnne Lowe

Action Research: Stress and Teaching
Creative Writing: Violin Lessons
Demonstration: How to get ELL students to add more detail to their writing

 


Phil MartinPhil Martin

Action Research: Encouraging a Love for Literature at an Early Age
Professional Writing: Expanding a Campus-Wide Service Learning Center
Demonstration: Using Lumber to Help Students Avoid Fragments and Fused Sentences

 


Marci MyersMarci Myers

Action Research: Using the Six Traits
Creative Writing: The Apple Tree
Demonstration: Narrative

 


Mary Cathryn RickerMary Cathryn Ricker

Action Research: Uncovering the Naturalist Writer in Middle School
Creative Writing: Two Poems (Mt. Hood Loop and This Is the Place)
Demonstration: Legal Fireworks: Barry Lane's Exploding the Moment, Or
How to Truly Make your Writing da bomb

 


Paul SchmitzPaul Schmitz

Action Research: Helping Students with Dyslexia in the High School English Classroom
Creative Writing: The Wall
Demonstration: Let Public Speaking Set the Tone

 


Kari SortumKari Sortum

Action Research: Improving Spelling Instruction
Creative Writing: Claude
Demonstration: Extra! Extra! Read all about it! A unit on newspaper writing

 


Edie StearnsEdie Stearns

Action Research: Why Can't My 5th Graders Spell?
Creative Writing: Regrets (An Excerpt)
Demonstration: The MCA Writing Test: Detriment or Delight? Choose Your Attitude

 

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Phone: 612-625-6323 E-mail: mwp@umn.edu