Charles A. MacArthur is a Professor of Special Education and Literacy in the School of Education at the University of Delaware. A former special education teacher, he teaches courses on literacy problems, writing instruction, and educational research. His major research interests include writing development and instruction for struggling writers, development of self-regulated strategies, adult literacy, and applications of technology to support reading and writing. He is currently principal investigator of a research project developing a writing curriculum for developmental writing courses in community colleges, and co-principal investigator of a study of writing instruction in first grade. Major funded research projects have focused on decoding instruction in adult education, development of a writing curriculum for students with learning disabilities, writing strategy instruction, development of multimedia tools to support reading and writing, speech recognition as a writing accommodation, and project-based learning in social studies in inclusive classrooms. He served as co-editor of The Journal of Special Education for 5 years, and serves on the editorial boards of several other journals. He has published over 100 articles and book chapters and edited several books, including the Handbook of Writing Research and Best Practices in Writing Instruction.

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