Web Resource Links
This collection of web resources is for faculty and GTAs teaching writing courses and is derived from Writing Across Curriculum (WAC) and Writing In the Discipline (WID) programs across the country. 听Writing topics are arranged by category and resources for specific disciplines/subject areas can be found near the end.
If you have additional resources that we can add or would like to see an additional topic addressed, please contact Julianne Zvolensky.
The WAC Clearinghouse, in partnership with the听 , publishes journals, books, and other resources for teachers who use writing in their courses. These are two notable and extensive resources.
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University of Minnesota: (a comprehensive collection of videos, Power-point presentations, & handouts on the entire writing process from a variety of institutions)
General Writing Across Curriculum Information & Writing Resources
Journals
Course & Assignment Design
Writing to Learn Activities
Commenting, Evaluating, & Grading
Peer Review
Revision
Grammar, Editing, & Proofreading
Specific Disciplines
Student Resources
Plagiarism
ESL Students
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Manoa Writing Program at Univ. of Hawaii, Manoa
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Course and Assignment and Design
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These websites offer assistance in drafting course structure and assignment prompts.
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Colorado State: Teaching Guide:
University of Minnesota:
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University of Missouri:
George Mason University: niversity of Minnesota: 听
Writing to Learn Activities
Generally, writing-to-learn activities are short, impromptu or otherwise informal writing tasks that help students think through key concepts or ideas presented in a course.
Colorado State University:
Manoa Writing Program at Univ. of Hawaii, Manoa:
University of Richmond: 听听
University of Hawaii at Manoa:
University of Minnesota: 听
University of Wisconsin-Madison:
Manoa Writing Program at Univ. of Hawaii, Manoa:
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Commenting, Evaluating, and Grading
These sources give information about various commenting strategies that aim at formative feedback to help improve students' writing.
Colorado State: Evaluating Writing Assignments
Colorado State: Teaching in the Margins: Commenting on Student Writing
University of Minnesota: Responding and Grading: Approaches and Samples
George-Mason University: Managing the Paper load and Responding Effectively to Student Writing
George-Mason University: Washington University, St. Louis:
Peer Review
Peer-review workshops serve many useful functions for student writers. Most notably, they provide writers with real readers who must make sense of the writing, they help writers improve their reading/critical analysis skills, and they help writers improve their writing skills and final products.
Colorado State: 听
Washington University, St. Louis:
George Mason University:
University of Wisconsin-Madison:
MIT: 听
Revision
Most arguments, especially research-based arguments, require careful revision to be fully effective. These sources offer information for both instructors and students about the revision process.
Colorado State: Colorado State:
Colorado State:
Purdue OWL:
Purdue OWL:
Grammar, Editing, and Proofreading
Students who use a system for tracking their individual patterns of error and are held accountable for using that system to proofread their papers are more likely to improve their sentence-level errors over the course of the term. 听Below are some resources to help them achieve such ends.
Colorado State:
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University of Minnesota: University of Minnesota:
Texas A&M:
Purdue OWL:
Purdue OWL:
Specific Disciplines
In this section, find websites that target specific subject areas or topics directly as well as some that compile a variety of examples of syllabi and assignments from various subject areas.
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North Carolina State:听
Bowdoin College:听
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University of Richmond:听
Electonic Communication Across the Curriculum:听
Colorado State:听
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Rice University:
University of North Carolina:
Student Resources
Colorado State:
Purdue:
Swarthmore:
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign:
University of Minnesota:
Plagiarism
University of Minnesota:
Colorado State: Teaching Guide:听
George Mason:
ESL Students
Manoa Writing Program at Univ. of Hawaii, Manoa: 听
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