Publications

The teachers who participate in the UNC Charlotte Writing Project often use their work as a foundation for their own publications. Here are some of the current publications of our former or recurring participants and instructors. Check back frequently for the latest work available.

New Releases:

Torgerson, William J.  Love on the Big Screen.  Williamsburg, VA: Cherokee McGhee, 2011.

Kendrick, Mary.  “Using Student Collaborations to Foster Progressive Discourse.”  English Journal, 99.5 (2010): 85-90.

Brannon, Lil, Urbanski, Cindy, Manship, Lacy, Arnold, Lucy and Tony Iannone.  “The Ebay-ification of Education: Critical Literacy in a Consumerocracy.” English Journal, 99.3 (2010): 16-21.

Despite pressures to treat literacy as a commodity, a better version of critical literacy is available to teachers who strive for it.

Books:

Brannon, Lil, Griffin, Sally, Haag, Karen, Iannone, Tony, Urbanski, Cynthia, and Shana Woodward.  Thinking Out Loud on Paper: The Student Daybook as a Tool to Foster Learning.  Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Books, 2008.

Are you interested in helping your students become better readers, writers and thinkers? Of course you are. We are too! Six Leaders and Teacher Consultants from the UNC Charlotte Writing Project–Lil Brannon, Sally Griffin, Karen Haag, Tony Iannone, Cindy Urbanski, and Shana Woodward–have teamed up and written a book on daybooks, the wonderful writing and thinking tool we all use in our classrooms! The book explores the daybook as the center of the reading, writing and thinking that goes on in our classrooms. Readers will take away strategies to enable students to build a literacy tool box filled with what students need for any reading, writing and thinking situation across curriculums and grade levels.

To read an excerpt, click the picture:

Torgerson, William J.  Love on the Big Screen.  Williamsburg, VA: Cherokee McGhee, 2011.

Urbanski, Cindy.  Using the Workshop Approach in the High School English Classroom: Modeling Effective Writing, Reading, and Thinking Strategies for Student Success.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, 2006.

Cindy has taught middle and high school English in rural North Carolina and in a large urban district. She began teaching in 1995, became a Teacher Consultant in 1999, and now co-teaches our Summer Institute.

Click the picture to read a few excerpts from Cindy’s book:   

Journal Articles:

Brannon, Lil, Urbanski, Cindy, Manship, Lacy, Arnold, Lucy and Tony Iannone.  “The Ebay-ification of Education: Critical Literacy in a Consumerocracy.” English Journal, 99.3 (2010): 16-21.

Brannon, Lil, Pooler, Jennifer, Urbanski, Cynthia, Woodward, Shana, Marklin Reynolds, Jeanie, Iannone, Anthony, Haag, Karen, Mach, Karen, Arnold Manship, Lacy and Mary Kendrick.  “The Five-Paragraph Essay and the Deficit Model of Education.”  English Journal 98.2 (2008): 16-21.

Writing Project colleagues explain why using the five-paragraph essay for teach writing is ill-advised.

Kendrick, Mary.  “Using Student Collaborations to Foster Progressive Discourse.”  English Journal, 99.5 (2010): 85-90.