•March 30, 2016•

Teachers, administrators and interested students are invited to attend the Eastern Illinois Writing Project/Teaching with Primary Sources at EIU Fall Institute Day Friday, October 14 on the campus of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston.

The Eastern Illinois Writing Project and Teaching with Primary Sources Project will present the annual Institute Day, titled “Beyond Pro and Con: Motivating Productive Arguments” from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Doudna Fine Arts Center.

This year’s Institute Day will focus on teaching argument reading and writing across disciplines and the English Language Arts Common Core Standards. The Eastern Illinois University Teaching with Primary Source Project is co-sponsoring the event. Teachers from across disciplines and grade levels will share teaching ideas in multiple breakout sessions, maintaining a teachers teaching teachers model to creatively meet the Common Core Standards.

To highlight this interdisciplinarity across grade levels, the keynote speakers will be Dr. Tim Taylor and Dr. Fern Kory, EIU professors representing writing across the curriculum. Their workshop and discussion will highlight new ways of approaching argument. These events will address what Dominic Delli Carpini calls “Real research” that is motivated by a “sincere need to learn more about a topic so as to speak or write credibly about it, and to draw substantive and reasonable conclusions; finding information is a means to that end” (306).     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.