国家写作计划是提高美国人写作水平的首要努力. 通过其专业的发展模式, 基于以下假设, NWP建立领导力, 项目, 教师需要研究来帮助他们的学生成为成功的作家和学习者. 地方性和全国性的学生成绩研究都显示出积极的结果.
- 大学和学院必须作为合作伙伴共同努力. 过去大学-学校课程“自上而下”的传统不再被接受为员工发展模式.
- 成功的写作教师是可以被识别的, 在大学暑期学院期间聚集在一起, 并接受培训，在学校的后续项目中教授其他教师.
- Teachers are the best teachers of other teachers; successful practicing teachers have a credibility no outside consultant can match.
- 暑期学院必须有各个层次的教师参与, elementary school through university; student writing needs constant attention and repetition from the early primary grades on through the university years.
- 夏季研究所s must involve teachers from across the disciplines; writing is as fundamental to learning in science, 在数学方面, 在英语和语言艺术中也是如此.
- Teachers of writing must also write: Teachers must experience what they are asking of their students when they have students write; the process of writing can be understood best by engaging in that process first hand.
- Real change in classroom practice happens over time; effective staff development 项目 are on-going and systematic, 在教师的整个职业生涯中，定期将教师聚集在一起，测试和评估其他教师的最佳实践和该领域的持续发展.
- 我们对写作教学的了解不仅来自研究，还来自教授写作的人的实践.
- 全国写作工程, 通过不提倡单一的“正确”的写作教学方法, 无论是现在还是将来，对任何已知的、来自任何来源的写作都持开放态度吗.