Carol Booth Olson Director UC Irvine Writing Project Sr. Lecturer Department of Education email: cbolson@uci.edu phone: 949.824.7842 office: Berkeley Place 2068 http://www.gse.uci.edu/colson http://www.gse.uci.edu/uciwp/

• The Reading /Writing Connection: Strategies for Teaching and Learning.
  New York : Addison Wesley Longman, 2003
• Research on Reading, Thinking and Writing About Literature, Oakland: University of California, Office of the President, 1997.
• Senior Consultant, Scott Foresman Literature and Integrated Studies: Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Glenview, IL: Scott Foresman, 1997.
• Senior Consultant, Scott Foresman Literature and Integrated Studies: Forms of Literature (Grade 9); World Literature (Grade 10); American Literature (Grade 11); English Literature (Grade 12), Glenview, IL: Scott Foresman, 1997.
• "Professional Commentary: Writing and Thinking Critically." In Scott Foresman Literature and Integrated Studies Annotated Teacher's Edition: Grades 6-12, (28-29). Glenview, IL: Scott Foresman, 1997.
• "Reading, Thinking and Writing About Culturally Diverse Literature: An Academic Partnership," On Common Ground, Number 7 (Fall 1996), 22.
• "Little Kids Can Think Big: Fostering Critical Thinking Through Writing," Think Magazine, Vol. 6, Number 4 (April 1996), 8-15.
• Co-author, "A Multiple Intelligences Approach to Teaching Multicultural Literature," Language Arts Journal ofMichigan, Vol 12, Number 1 (Spring 1996), 1-8.
• Editor, Practical Ideas for Teaching Writing as a Process at the High School and College Levels, Sacramento, CA: California State Department of Education, 1996.
• Editor, Practical Ideas for Teaching Writing as a Process at the Elementary School and Middle School Levels, Sacramento, CA: California State Department of Education, 1996.

Articles in Practical Ideas include:
• Preface, xi-xii.
• "Integrating Clustering and Showing, not Telling," 52-54.
• "Preparing Students to Write the Saturation Report," 148-153.
• "A Lesson on Point of View...That Works," 154-158.
• "Tapping Multiple Intelligences Through the Literature Book Project," 200-207.
• "Strategies for Interacting with a Text," 231-235.
• "A Sample Prompt, Scoring Guide, and Model Paper for an I-Search Paper," 175-180.
• "Adding an Analytical Commentary to Holistic Scoring," 297-298.



• Co-author, "Using Amy Tans The Moon Lady to Teach Analytical Writing in the Multicultural Classroom," Paintbrush: A Journal of Contemporary Multicultural Literature, Vol. XXII (Autumn 1995), 85-98.
• "Book Clubs: An Approach to Thinking," Think Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 4 (April 1995), 40-43.
• Co-author, "Reading, Thinking and Writing About Culturally Diverse Literature: A Curriculum Design, Staff Development, and Teacher Research Project," Multicultural Education, (Winter 1994), 10-18.
• Principal Author, "Reading, Thinking and Writing About Culturally Diverse Literature" In Dennis S. Tierney (Ed.), 1994 Yearbook of California Education Research, (13-32). San Francisco, CA: Caddo Gap Press, 1994.
• "Saturation Research: An Alternative Approach to the Research Paper." In Toni Lee Caposella (Ed.), The Critical Writing Workshop: Designing Writing Assignments to Foster Critical Thinking (178-192). Portsmouth, NH: Boynton Cook/Heinemann, 1993.
• Editor and Contributing Author, Reading, Thinking and Writing About Culturally Diverse Literature, Long Beach, CA: California Academic Partnership Program, 1993.
• "Interactive Strategies for Enhancing Thinking and Writing," In Arthur L. Costa, James Ballanca, & Robin Fogarty, (Eds.), If Minds Matter: A Foreword to the Future, Volume II (101-116). Palatine, IL: IRI/Skylight Publishing, Inc., 1993.
• "Enhancing Integrated Language Arts Instruction," Think Magazine Vol. 3, No. 4, (April 1993), 32-37.
• "Thinking and Writing." In Writer's Choice, 9-12 (Teacher's Edition), T20-T21. New York: Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, 1992.
• "How to Design a Thinking/Writing Lesson," Think Magazine Vol. 2, No. 4, (April 1992), 32-35.
• Editor and Contributing Author, Thinking/Writing: Fostering Critical Thinking Through Writing, New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1992.
Chapters in Thinking/Writing include:
• "What We Did Last Summer...or...The Process of Collaborating on a Product," vi-viii.
• "A Rationale for Fostering Critical Thinking Through Writing," 1-7.
Thinking/Writing Charts, 16-17. (co-author).
• "The Demonstration Lessons," 29-32.
• "The I-Search Paper," 378-395.
• "The Lesson on How to Design a Lesson," 418-424.
• "Evaluating the Thinking/Writing Lessons and Overall Model," 430-447. (co-author).
• "Glossary," 449-467 (co-author).
• "Tapping Multiple Intelligences Through the Literature Book Project," Think Magazine (December 1991), 13-19.
• "The Thinking/Writing Connection. " In Arthur L. Costa (Ed.), Developing Minds: A Resource Book for Teaching Thinking, Revised Edition, Volume 1, (147-152). Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1991.
• "Lost in the Madhouse," Review of Contemporary Fiction, Special Edition on John Barth (Summer 1990), 56-63.
• "Fostering Critical Thinking Through Writing." In Ronald S. Brandt (Ed.), Readings From Educational Leadership: Teaching Thinking, (150-161). Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1989.
• "Giving Students a Personal Stake in Research." In Robert Wiltenburg and Sondra J. Stang (Eds.), Collective Wisdom: A Sourcebook of Lessons for Writing Teachers, (303-307). New York: Random House, 1988.
• "What Do We Teach When We Teach Writing? Exemplary Practices of the National Writing Project," National Writing Project Newsletter (June 1986), 12.
• Editor and Contributing Author, Practical Ideas for Teaching Writing as a Process, Sacramento, CA: California State Department of Education, 1986. (Reprinted in 1987.)
• "The California Writing Project." In Arthur L. Costa (Ed.), Developing Minds: A Resource Book for Teaching Thinking, (215-216). Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1985. (Second edition, 1991.)
• "The Thinking/Writing Connection: Using Writing as a Tool for Promoting Cognitive Growth." In Arthur L. Costa (Ed.), Developing Minds: A Resource Book for Teaching Thinking, (102-107). Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1985.
• "Thinking/Writing: Fostering Critical Thinking Skills Through Writing," Educational Leadership (November 1984), 28-39.
• Editor, Project Radius Newsletter, Office of Teacher Education, UC Irvine (2 issues per year.)
• "The UCI Writing Project," California English (March-April 1983), 20.
• "UCI Writing Project Develops Thinking/Writing Continuum," Student Preparation Quarterly (March 1983), 37-38.
• "What We Did Last Summer or the Process of Collaborating on a Product," National Writing Project Newsletter (March 1983), 18-20.
• "Personalizing Research in the I Search Paper," Arizona English Bulletin (October 1982), 147-163.
• "Of Mice and Men," Potpourri: Teaching Ideas (Spring 1981), 26-27.
• "Mirrors and Madness: A.G. Mojtabai's Mundome," Critique: Studies In Modern Fiction (December 1978), 71-82.
• Madness in the Contemporary American Novel, Doctoral Dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, 1977. (Includes chapters on: Vladimir Nabokov, Joseph Heller, Ken Kesey, Sylvia Plath, Joanne Greenberg, John Barth, and A.G. Mojtabai.)

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