Deeper Writing

Robin W. Holland is co-director of the Columbus Area Writing Project (CAWP), a local affiliate of the National Writing Project. She has worked in the areas of writing and language arts for over 30 years. During this time she has developed district-wide writing initiatives, conducted inservice trainings, and created writing curriculum guides for Columbus City Schools. Prior to her appointment at CAWP in 2005, she held a number of positions at the building level, including classroom teacher, gifted educator, Title I Teacher, and Literacy Coach/Intervention Specialist. Holland currently works with teacher participants from levels K-16 as one of the facilitators of the CAWP Summer Writing Institute at The Ohio State University. Please check out Robin Holland's new blog: http://deeperwritingrobinholland.blogspot.com/.

Acknowledgments Foreword by Franki Sibberson Preface Introduction: Deeper Writing With Quick Writes and Mentor Texts Chapter 1 Knowledge and Memory: Writing Ourselves Chapter 2 Art, Lenses, and Visions: Writing the World We See Chapter 3 Passion, Power, and Purpose: Writing to Change the World Chapter 4 Containers, Craft, and Conventions: Writing in Different Genres Chapter 5 The Creation of a Quick Write: Developing Your Own References Literature Cited Index

"This text allows teachers and students to experience the pleasures and joys of finding meaning in... writing. Such "digging deeper" can be rare in a writing-on-demand culture. The prompts are versatile enough to allow for use in a wide variety of classrooms, from primary-grades to graduate school." -- Peggy Semingson, Assistant Professor of Literacy Studies "Here are the resources you would collect if you had months to search for them. Robin shows how each can be used to help students find satisfying topics and then develop those by studying the craft of other writers. This book will inspire you to write-and lead your students to write-with heart, with passion, and with increasing skill." -- Penny Kittle, Author of Write Beside Them and Book Love