Resources
Designing Curriculum
Prewriting
Creating Writing Assignments:
- Guidelines
- Highlighted Reading: "Assignments: Mindful or Mindless"
- Writing Assignments Form
- Low Stakes Writing Guidelines
- Staging Writing Assignments
- Videos and handouts on "Designing Engaging Writing Assignments"
Facilitating Group Writing Assignments:
- Highlighted Reading: Teaching Signals: Teaching Writing Proficiency in Groups
- Navigating Group Projects
- Sample Group Assignments
Preventing Plagiarism:
- Plagiarism.org Learning Center
- Plagiarism Policies and Guidelines @WWU
- WPA Guidelines on Avoiding Plagiarism
- Highlighted Reading: Fair Use - How to Apply It | Word Format
- Highlighted Reading: "Using Evidence in Writing"
- The Sources in Student Writing - Higher Education: Sources of Matched Content and Plagiarism in Student Writing
Research-based Writing:
- Five Assumptions about Research in the Undergraduate Experience
- Research in Reverse
- A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, 7th Ed.
Responding to Writers
- Some Principles and Techniques for Responding to Student Writing
- Reader Response Cycles
- Reader Response: A Sampler
- Reader Response Form
- Responding to Writing
- Highlighted Reading: Improving Student Writing Through Effective Feedback: Best Practices and Recommendations
- Highlighted DVD: “Writing Across the Drafts” available in WIS Collection, WL 265
- Just Ask the Students
- Sample Peer Response Worksheet
- Responding to Writing - Bones, Muscles and Skin
- The Critical Response Tool (CRT)
- Video: Beyond the Red Ink: Teachers' Comments through Students' Eyes
Responding to Writers Using Jing:
- Responding to Writers Using Jing
- Hardware and Software Requirements
- Getting Started with the Software
- Sample Response using Jing
Evaluating Writing:
- Discipline - Based Writing Rubric
- Writing Evaluation Guidelines
- Evaluating Writing
- WP Rubric
- English 101
- Grading Writing Resources
- GUR Communication Competency Rubric
Editing:
- Highlighted Reading: Editing Matters
- Ethos and Error: Helping Students Understand Your Editing Priorities
- The 20 Most Common Errors in Student Writing
- Ethos and Error: Helping Students Understand Your Editing Priorities - Needs Windows Media Player
- Top Ten Writing Conventions: A Hierarchy of Errors
- Best Practices for Teaching Editing
- Highlighted Reading: "Mistakes Are a Fact of Life': A National Comparative Study."
- Critical Grammar: Teaching the transition to college writing
- Prejudicial Misspellings
Special Topics:
Academic Literacy:
- Academic Literacy Panel
- Some Thoughts on Teaching Academic Literacy
- Media Ecology Bibliography
- Academic Literacy fro English Learners
- Comm 322 Book Seminars
- Professor Pushes for Return to Slow Reading
Teaching Claims/Arguments:
Incorporating Evidence:
- Developing Scholarly and Textual Authority Through Strong Citation Packages
- Example of the 'Citation Sandwich'
Storytelling:
Digital Writing:
- Resources for Digital Writing in the Classroom
- Writing in the Web 2.0 World
- "A Portrait of Writing Together: Images of a “Digidemic” Collaboration"
- "Researching the Digidemic" (Need Quicktime player)
Multicultural Approaches to Teaching Writing:
- Writing the World
- Writing Across Borders (Needs a PC)
- Reading Written Accent: A Working Session on Responding to Second Language Writers
- Resisting Monolingualism in 'English:' Reading and Writing the Politics of Language - Horner and Lu
- Language Difference in Writing: Toward a Translingual Approach - Horner et al
- A Translingual Approach to Error in Student Writing
Writing Across Disciplines:
- Higlighted Reading: Awareness Through Production: Probing Students' Antecendent Genre Knowledge
- Some Tips for Writing About Literature
- Lab Reports
Blogging:
- Beyond Peer-Reviewed Articles: Using Blogs to Enrich Students' Understanding of Scholarly Work
