MANSFIELD, PA— The Endless Mountains Writing Project (EMWP), hosted by Mansfield University, has been awarded a $20,000 grant to train area teachers to implement the College-Ready Writers Program (CRWP).
The CRWP is designed to improve the argument writing skills of middle and high school students. Independent evaluators at the Stanford Research Institute have found that this program has a positive, statistically significant effect on the four attributes of student argument writing—content, structure, stance, and conventions—and produced greater proficiency in the quality of reasoning and use of evidence in student writing.
The CRWP mini-units are four to six day instructional sequences through which students form their own arguments and write multi-paragraph pieces. Each unit engages students in reading multiple nonfiction texts and is intended to help students improve one or more key argument writing skills.
The EMWP at Mansfield University is an official site of the federally-funded National Writing Project (NWP). The NWP mission is to improve student achievement by infusing writing into teacher development.
For more information, go nwp.org/ or the Endless Mountains Writing Project link, under Educational Resources on the MU Department of Education & Special Education website at mansfield.edu/edspeced/