Faculty Writing Resources
University and College Websites to Help Faculty Who Are
Writers and Faculty Who Use Writing in the Classroom
These sources have been collected and annotated by David Shusta,
graduate assistant to the FWAP. Although FWAP does not necessarily
recommend any particular resource, together these sites provide
a wide variety of information and assistance. Please let us know
if any of these sites become inactive or if there are others you
would like to add.
Boise State University: WAC newsletter
http://www.idbsu.edu/wcenter/issues.htm
Word Works is a series of broadsides on rhetoric and composition.
Written from a cross-disciplinary perspective by members of the
Writing Center staff and of the BSU faculty, it is intended as a
resource for instructors in any discipline who are interested in
using writing to enhance learning. This site has links to back issues
of Word Works to March 1994. The site provides links to online writing
resources for APA style, Chicago/ Turabian style, and MLA style.
California State University, Fullerton: University Learning Center
http://ulc.fullerton.edu
This site contains resources for both students and faculty, including
on-line tutoring services, information about workshops that can
be presented to students, links to various style sheets, and computer
assisted help for writers whose first or only language is not English.
California State University, Los Angeles: WAC and Writing
Center
http://web.calstatela.edu/centers/write_cn/
This site is the homepage for the University Writing Center at
California State University, Los Angeles. This site includes links
to writing tips to aid in the development of student writing.
Faculty Services
http://www.calstatela.edu/centers/write_cn/facmenu.htm
This link is designed to help faculty design and respond to student
writing and student writing problems. There are articles about
teaching, how to help non-native speakers, and writing in the
disciplines. There are also links to online resources for writers.
Colorado State University: WAC
http://aw.colostate.edu/resource_list.htm
This is the Colorado State University WAC and CAC (Communication
Across the Curriculum) homepage. This site includes links to WAC,
WAC e-mail discussion group, CAC research, WAC theory and practice,
the National Network of WAC Programs, links to WAC and CAC programs,
articles, bibliographies, and related resources, and links to online
journals addressing WAC and CAC issues.
Dartmouth College: Composition Center
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~compose/
This is the homepage for the Dartmouth College Composition Center
and has links useful to both writers and teachers of writing. There
are links to student resources by discipline and writing situation/problem
and faculty resources concerning pedagogies, teaching methods, ideas
for teaching writing in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences.
George Mason University: WAC
http://wac.gmu.edu/
This is the George Mason University WAC homepage. It has links
to the WAC program at GMU and the writing center newsletter with
issues available online back to Fall 1999. Links useful to faculty
include teaching with writing, creating clear assignments, feedback
toward revisions, useful “how-to” sites, and ESL resources.
Resources for students include reading and the writing assignment,
good grammar sites, online writing guides, citation and documentation
style guides, evaluating websites, and using the library. There
are also links to various GMU and national writing guides. Another
useful resource is the link to the National WAC Network.
Indiana University: Campus Writing Program
http://www.indiana.edu/~cwp/
This site is the Indiana University WAC homepage and has links
to:
CWP Faculty Resources
http://www.indiana.edu/~cwp/fac.html
This site provides links to several useful faculty resources,
including course and assignment design, student tutorials, teaching
resource center (Teaching Handbook), teaching methods, and constructing
writing assignments.
CWP Web site - online article on Microthemes
http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/cwp/assgn/microseq.html
The microtheme, the Swiss Army knife of assignments, can be put
to many uses, and is merely a short 100-500 word essay in which
a great deal of thinking precedes a rather small amount of writing.
In addition to requiring less time for you to read, microthemes
force an admirable economy on your students by forcing them to
distinguish between the important and incidental and to choose
the former. Individual microtheme assignments can emerge from
particular course content or combined into a sequence of assignments
that culminates in a longer paper.
CWP Library
http://www.indiana.edu/~cwp/lib/index.html
Although the Campus Writing Program Library services are reserved
for Indiana faculty, this link provides an extensive annotated
bibliography of articles dealing with teaching topics concerned
with writing by writing issue and university department.
Malaspina University: Writing-Across-the-Curriculum Project
http://www.mala.bc.ca/www/wac/proj.htm
This site is the homepage for the Malaspina University WAC Project.
Faculty finding it difficult to include student writing into their
class may find this site useful. It includes the history of the
project as well as the history of WAC in general. The site provides
advice on designing writing assignments and examples from 16 different
disciplines. Common writing problems and possible solutions are
discussed along with suggestions for grading. A comprehensive works
cited list is included.
Pointers and Examples of Writing and Texts Across the Curriculum
http://www.mala.bc.ca/www/wac/point.htm
This link connects to various departments within Malaspina University
and provides links to sites with suggestions for essays and practical
writing activities within the classroom. Links to 11 disciplines
are included.
The Electronic Tutor
http://www.mala.bc.ca/www/wac/tuts1.htm
This link connects to electronic tutorials, which address a variety
of writing problems.
Penn State University: WAC
http://www.psu.edu/dept/cew/
This is the Penn State University homepage for The Center for Excellence
in Writing. It provides links to faculty resources concerning designing
writing assignments, using non-graded, informal writing-to-think
exercises, responding to student writing, and helping students respond
to one another’s writing.
Purdue University: Writing Across the Curriculum and Writing
in the Disciplines http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/wac/
This site is the Purdue University WAC homepage. It includes a
history of the WAC movement and discusses writing as a means of
learning. The annotated bibliographies include resources for class
assignments, pedagogical theory, and writings on the use of WAC.
This is a list in progress. As of July 2002, entries include Nursing
and The Sciences. Each bibliography is divided into sections that
cover assignment suggestions, classroom experiences, and theoretical
background for WAC. The site also includes links to several university
WAC sites and links to Purdue University Teaching Resource Section,
the Online Writing Lab (OWL), and the National Writing Center Association
with links to other OWLs.
Stephen F. Austin State University and the National Council
of Teachers of English: Language And Learning Across the Curriculum
http://www.sfasu.edu/lalac/
This is the homepage of the Language and Learning Across the Curriculum
site sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English. The
site includes an e-mail discussion group, links to resources available
through the National Council, links to 15 bibliographies by discipline,
and links to related web sites.
Tufts University: WAC
http://www.tufts.edu/as/wac/wacweb.html
This site provides links to a variety of writing resources and
other WAC programs.
The University of Minnesota: Center for Interdisciplinary
Studies of Writing
http://cisw.cla.umn.edu/index.html
This site is the homepage for the Center for Interdisciplinary
Studies of Writing at the University of Minnesota. This site includes
links to teaching with writing, CISW research (abstracts for CISW-sponsored
research), and support for writing research (FWAP).
University of Missouri – Columbia: Campus Writing
Program
http://www.cwp.missouri.edu/index.html
This is the homepage for the Campus Writing Program at the University
of Missouri, Columbia. Links from this site include resources for
writers, teachers, and for creating 5-minute workshops. Online issues
of the Writery Newsletter can be accessed back to August 1994.
University of Richmond: WAC
http://writing.richmond.edu/wac/
This is the University of Richmond WAC homepage. It includes links
to the program’s description, goals, and information and resources
associated with their WAC program.
One of the program goals of WAC is to provide tools for instructors,
peer tutors, and students to improve writing throughout the University
curriculum. This page provides links to tools developed by University
of Richmond students and staff. It also connects to outside sites
that contain more writing tools. Links within this page also provide
viewers the opportunity to add their own tools and methods. There
are links to the University of Richmond WAC Newsletter back to Fall
1998, links to related web sites, and 11 Write-to-Learn Activities
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee: College of Letters and
Sciences Edison Initiative
UW Milwaukee - L&S Edison Initiative: Writing Across the Curriculum
Resources
http://www.uwm.edu/letsci/edison/wn.html
This site includes writing across the curriculum bibliographies
compiled by Professor Peter Sands of the English Department to assist
faculty in making their courses more writing intensive. The resources
are selected to help bring writing into the classroom in ways that
support student learning, experimentation, and the mastery of disciplinary
knowledge.
Wright State University: WAC
newsletter with articles
http://www.wright.edu/academics/wac/news.htm
This site provides links to the Wright State University WAC Newsletter
back to November 1996. The WAC Newsletter is a forum for discussing
the use of writing in the classroom and a clearinghouse for information
on current research in teaching writing and its application. It
includes discussion of effective writing assignments, grading rubrics,
etc. and is intended for all faculty interested in using writing
as a means of learning, not only those teaching designated writing
intensive courses as part of the WAC program.
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