The Lowcountry Writing Project, housed in the English Department, continues to provide high-quality professional development for teachers in all disciplines. With the goal of improving student performance by improving the ways teachers use writing as a learning tool, the Lowcountry Writing Project offers special-topics classes each semester.
The 2006 Fall Institute, Freelance Writing for Publication, gave participants practice in analyzing a market and writing for specific audiences. Participants toured a local winery, took a food-and-arts tour of Mt. Pleasant, and even enjoyed a concert from the top of the carillon tower during Homecoming festivities. Based on these experiences, they wrote interviews, reviews, travel stories, and feature stories to submit to various magazines. While growing as writers, they also picked up tips they could use in their own classrooms.
Online registration is now open for the 2007 Winter Institute, Writing Children’s Books. This institute will feature guest presentations from local authors, illustrators and publishers, and will show participants how to publish that children’s book they have been wanting to write (or perhaps that they wrote several years ago). For more info, visit the LWP site: http://www.citadel.edu/writingproject/.
