1. Encourage your students to use their imagination. Have them incorporate feelings and life experiences rather than just facts (please, refer to the Creative Writing IdeasI)

2. One of the goals of this publication is to give adult learners a voice in their communities. Suggest a variety of writing topics to your students. Examples of submissions could be:

Special learning from personal experiences
Compose a song or make up new lyrics to an existing song
Personal opinion
A short 5-minute skit
Storyboard A rap
Poetry
Humor
Cartoon

3. We depend on you, the teacher as step 1 of the writing process for DTWT: all writings will be published (in print and online) as received. No editing will be done after pieces are submitted

4. Please review your students’ writings by evaluating ideas and content, organization, sentence structure, mechanics, word choice and students’ voice.

5. Review your students’ writings for appropriateness (see General information). Use your good judgment on which topics/content is appropriate or not.

6. Take the time to provide feedback to your students before their writings are submitted. Students are encouraged to peer edit and evaluate their writings based on the same rubric that the Editorial Board will use to select writings for publication.

7. A workshop will be held on how to use the rubric on November 3, 2005.

8. Please assist your students to completely fill out the necessary forms electronically. Forms can be downloaded from the DTWT web-site

a. To submit a writing: Complete and submit the” Student Author/Artist Information Form.” Within one week of submission, students need to
      i. print
      ii. sign
      iii. mail a hard copy of this form to:

SABES, Joanne Harrington, QCC, 670 West Boylston Street, Worcester, MA 01606.

b. To be part of the editorial board: Complete and submit the “Editorial Board Form.”

9. All entries will be posted on the DTWT web site for evaluation purposes. No names will be posted without signed permission.

10. Entries will appear with the name students specify in the “Student Author/Artist Information Form“ (initials, first name, etc.).

11. Please inform your students that once their entries are posted on the DTWT web site they will be available worldwide for viewing. At the same time, anybody can have access to their writing and perhaps, for the same reason, students may not wish to have their names posted on the web site.

12. Encourage your students to use their imagination and submit artwork for the cover of DTWT. Submit hard copy with signed ”Student Author/Artist Information Form” to: SABES, Joanne Harrington, QCC, 670 West Boylston Street, Worcester, MA 01606.