The National Writing Project's 30 Ideas for Teaching Writing offers successful strategies contributed by experienced writing project teachers. Since NWP does not promote a single approach to teaching writing, readers will benefit from a variety of eclectic, classroom-tested techniques.
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30 Ideas for Teaching Writing received a first-place Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of Educational Publishers (AEP).
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Few sources available today offer writing teachers such succinct, practice-based help-which is one reason why 30 Ideas for Teaching Writing was the winner of the Association of Education Publishers 2005 Distinguished Achievement Award for Instructional Materials.
These ideas originated as full-length articles in NWP publications