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Senate Faculty
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Carol Booth Olson
Director
UC Irvine Writing Project
Sr. Lecturer
Department of Education
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Biography
Carol Booth Olson is Director of the UCI/National Writing Project and a
Senior Lecturer in the Department of Education at the University of
California, Irvine. She received her Ph.D. in American Literature from UCLA
in 1977 and was honored as Outstanding Graduate Woman of the Year.
Dr. Olson has edited three books: Practical Ideas for Teaching Writing as Process (1997), the
best selling publication of the California Department of Education (1986;
1987); Thinking/Writing: Fostering Critical Thinking Through Writing (Harper
Collins, 1992); and Reading, Thinking, and Writing About Multicultural
Literature (Scott Foresman Publishers, 1996). In addition, her single-author
text, The Reading/Writing Connection, is now in its second edition (Allyn &
Bacon/ Longman, 2007). Dr. Olson has also published over thirty journal articles
on interactive strategies for teaching writing, fostering critical thinking
through writing, applying multiple intelligences theory to language arts
instruction, using multicultural literature with students of culturally
diverse backgrounds, and more.
In 1994, Dr. Olson and three UCI Writing Project
teacher researchers won the first annual Caddo Gap Press Award for
California Education Research for a study of the impact of teaching
multicultural literature on the writing of ethnic and linguistic minority
students. She was the recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award from the
UCI Commitee in Teaching Quality for 1996 and 1997 and received the
Outstanding Contribution to Reading Award from the Orange County Reading
Assocation in 1999.
In 2007, Dr. Olson received the Alan Purves Award from the National Council of Teachers of English for the article in Research in the Teaching of English deemed most like to impact educational practice for an eight-year long study in Santa Ana Unified School District.
"Children are always the only future the human race has; Teach them well."
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