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Charles MacArthur is Professor of Special Education and Literacy at the University of Delaware. His major research interests include writing development and instruction, development of self-regulated strategies and motivation, adult literacy, and applications of technology to support reading and writing. He has conducted research on writing development and instruction for over 25 years and directed or co-directed ten federally funded research projects on writing and reading instruction. Currently he is principal investigator of a five-year research project evaluating a curriculum for college developmental writing based on self-regulated strategy instruction. He is co-editor of the Journal of Writing Research and co-editor of the Handbook of Writing Research and Best Practices in Writing Instruction.