Release date: Jan. 22, 2003

Contact: Stacie Janecki, KMPW Program Coordinator, 770-499-3654 or kmwp@kennesaw.edu

Researchers share history in Kennesaw Mountain Writing Project program

The Keeping and Creating American Communities winter workshop 2003, "Educating for Citizenship" Revisited, will be held Thursday, Feb. 6, 8:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m. in the Carmichael Student Center Leadership Room at Kennesaw State University. This event, sponsored by the Kennesaw Mountain Writing Project, is free, though reservations are required.

Award-winning author, Tony Grooms, will lead a discussion on his book, Bombingham, focusing on his research for the book. Public historian, LeeAnn Lands, will describe strategies she is using to collaboratively recover the history of Summer Hill School in Bartow County. Historian, Ann Pullen, will share information on her newest research project, a study of diaries and scrapbooks created by a woman missionary in Africa at the turn of the 20th century.

For information and reservations call 770-499-3654 or email kmwp@kennesaw.edu.

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The KMWP supports the national teachers-teaching-teachers program aimed at improving writing instruction from kindergarten through college by encouraging teachers' own development as writers through classroom-based research on writing instruction.

Kennesaw State University is a comprehensive, residential institution with a growing student population of 15,600 from 118 countries. The fifth largest out of 34 institutions in the University System of Georgia, KSU offers 55 undergraduate and graduate degree programs.