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To improve student reading and writing by improving the quality of instruction

UCI Writing Project

Established in 1978, UCI Writing Project is the 13th site of the California Writing Project and the oldest of the Subject Matter Projects on the University of California, Irvine campus. We're located in UCI's Graduate School of Education.

​We are one of 200 sites of the National Writing Project.
The UCI Writing Project has trained 800 teachers/consultants from 85 local school districts and twelve colleges and universities. Additionally, the project has trained 675 teachers in its open program on Reading, Writing, and Critical Thinking, and 600 teachers in the Governor's Professional Development Institutes. The project has reached over 20,000 teachers via conferences and inservice programs. It was the first California Writing Project site to create a summer youth program, which has grown from 35 students and 2 teachers in 1984 to more than 2500 students and 200 teachers in 2013.​
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Featured in UCI News: On the right path

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Carol Booth Olson, Professor Emerita, former Director of the UCI Writing Project and creator of the Pathway Project. Steve Zylius / UCI
Professor Emerita and former Director of the UCI Writing Project, Carol Booth Olson speaks of her Pathway Project, established in 1996, which fosters academic literacy of English learners in middle and high schools.
If I can feel like I've moved the needle, if I can feel like I'm reaching out to these teachers and they, in turn, can get these kids into college, into good-paying jobs in the workforce, that's its own reward
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