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West Tennessee Writing Project

David Carithers, WTWP Director

UT Martin Department of English and Modern Foreign Languages

209 Hurt St. 

University of Tennessee at Martin Martin, TN 38238
Phone: 731-881-7300

Fax: 731-881-7276

wtwp@utm.edu

 

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Welcome

 

The West Tennessee Writing Project is located in the Department of English and Modern Foreign Languages at The University of Tennessee at Martin.  It is one of over 200 sites of the National Writing Project.

 

The purpose of WTWP is to improve writing and writing instruction in West Tennessee schools, K-16.  WTWP operates under these principles:

 

 *writing will improve as writing instruction improves
 *the best teacher of a teacher is another excellent teacher
 *teachers of writing should be practicing writers

News

Young Writers' Clubhouse Dates are set for 2011-2012 with new location in Parsons. 

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David Brandon Young Writers' Scholarship

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Summer Institute 2011 was a huge success with 11 teachers earning 6 hrs of graduate credit in English from UT-Martin.  Teachers came from Gibson, Lauderdale, Obion, Shelby, and Weakley Counties.  And check out our new blue shirts!   

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Read about the awesome ISI 2010 on Lana's

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NEW interactive WEB SITE is up.  CHECK IT OUT: www.westtennesseewritingproject.org

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Field Notes, May 2010