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as Writers is organized around the belief, supported by the National Writing Project, that teachers of writing are more effective when they spend time writing themselves. We work together on our development as writers at these meetings by:
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Tim Gillespie argues that teachers need to write so that their teaching of writing can be "based on knowledge we have earned ourselves. . . . We don't need to give up our curriculum to experts. We can just watch ourselves write." "I know that I often discover what I'm going to write as I write, that I often surprise myself with a new insight or image or idea. Drafting is a powerful act during which I often find, as the bassist Willie Ruff says about jazz, "something created during the process of delivery." The learning that takes place as I write helps me know that students need to be encouraged and allowed to do multiple drafts of a paper and that they also need to be able to write often without the constraints of preordained topics, forms, or outlines." Please join us for our Summer Writing Marathon at Hershey Gardens on Thursday, July 16, 9:00-11:30 a.m. To celebrate the National Day of Writing, CAWP will hold our Autum Writing Marathon at Fort Hunter Park on Sunday, October 18, 1:00-3:30 p.m. We will meet again monthly in September 2009. Check the CAWP calendar for future dates. Please invite another teacher or a friend of writing to join us. If you have questions, please contact Dorothy Brown at dorothymb2@verizon.net.
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Bring your journal, a piece of writing in progress, or even just a willingness to return to writing. And, of course, in the CAWP tradition, refreshments are always served. We meet once a month from 9:30 until 11:30 on Saturday mornings. We get together in the Olmsted Building, behind Stacks: turn left at the lion into the cafeteria; walk past the tables until you can make another left, and you'll see the radio station in front of you. Just to the left of the radio station is a hall to follow until you reach a lounge area. That's where we'll share, write, and respond. Be sure to join us soon!