An Introduction to Writing Across the Curriculum
Top Rated!http://wac.colostate.edu/intro/
A Colorado State U introduction for faculty intended to encourage good practice across the curriculum.
Compiled by Kate Kiefer, a member of the faculty at CSU. Copyright 2000.
Communication Across the Curriculum at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Top Rated!http://www.siu.edu/departments/cac/
A well designed, comprehensive site with a wide range of resources and links.
CompPile
Top Rated!http://comppile.tamucc.edu/index.html
An ongoing inventory of publications in
post-secondary composition, rhetoric, ESL, and technical writing: 1939-1999.
A great resource for tracking down journal publications.
Keyworded. CompPiler: Rich Haswell
Edison Initiative Writing Across the Curriculum Bibliographies
Top Rated!http://www.uwm.edu/letsci/edison/wn.html
A valuable site created by Peter Sands that offers links to bibliographies in Africology, anthropology, art history, biological sciences, chemistry, communication, economics, foreign languages, general science, geosciences, history, mass communication, mathematic sciences, philosophy, physics, psychology, and sociology.
Electronic Communication Across the Curriculum
Top Rated!http://wordsworth2.net/projects/ecac/ecacbk1.htm
Electronic Communication Across the Curriculum is an edited collection in which teachers and program heads throughout the United States present adaptable models of computer-supported communication using the pedagogies of writing for learning and writing with computers -- including science, math, history, philosophy, technical writing, accounting, literature, and marketing. Edited by Donna Reiss, Dickie Selfe, and Art Young (NCTE, 1998) http://bookstore.ncte.org/default.asp?id_product=3066.
Indiana University Campus Writing Program Library
Top Rated!http://www.indiana.edu/~cwp/lib/index.html
An extensive annotated bibliography on several areas related to WAC, including both general and discipline specific sources. The bibliography also addresses tutoring, peer review, evaluation, grading and marking, ESL, critical thinking, composition, and assessment/portfolios.
Journals in Rhetoric and Composition
Top Rated! http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/english/rcweb/journallist/j ...
This list, compiled by Richard C. Gebhardt and his students at Bowling Green State University, provides an extensive listing of journals (most with URLs) in rhetoric and composition and closely- related fields.
Language and Learning Across the Curriculum
Top Rated!http://www.sfasu.edu/lalac/
This site houses a bibliography with over 300 entries, as well as brochures and other helpful resources.
National Learning Communities Homepage
Top Rated!http://learningcommons.evergreen.edu/
A comprehensive introduction to and resource for Learning Communities. Includes ideas for getting started and sustaining LCs, a resource page, and a searchable directory of 131 learning community initiatives. Programs can add themselves to the database.
The CCCC Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric 1984-1999
Top Rated!http://www.ibiblio.org/cccc/
A searchable electronic compilation of the CCCC bibliographies edited by Erika Lindemann (1984-1990), Gail Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe (1991-1994), Gail Stygall (1995-1997), and Todd Taylor (1998-1999).
WAC at the University of Richmond
Top Rated!http://writing.richmond.edu/wac/
This well designed and comprehensive site provides access to write-to-learn activities, a Writing Fellows handbook, and links to other WAC resources, among other features. You can read their newsletter at:
http://writing.richmond.edu/resources/newsletter.htm
Writing Across the Curriculum Resources for Secondary Education at the McCallie School
Top Rated!http://www.mccallie.org/wrt_ctr/facultypage.htm
This website, which focuses on secondary education, describes writing activities used within and among classes in all disciplines at McCallie. It also offers suggestions for writing activities in different disciplines to improve thinking, writing and learning.
Writing@CSU
Top Rated!http://writing.colostate.edu/
The Online Writing Center at Colorado State University is one of the largest compilation of resources for writers and teachers available online. "Resources for Writers and Teachers" include specific advice for teachers on designing and evaluating student writing, teaching specific writing skills (from narrowing topics to proofreading), and using computer technologies as teaching tools. Students can find advice on specific types or formats of papers, getting started, writing for specific audiences, and so on.
Digital Writing - Across the Curriculum
http://www.tltgroup.org/resources/GX/Digital-WAC.htm
Digital Writing - Across the Curriculum:
Implications of Technology for the Content and Outcomes Of a Liberal Education. Web Site devoted to collecting examples supporting the claim:
Faculty teaching courses in almost any discipline can teach those courses in better, richer ways if their students enter those courses with some skills in digital writing (e.g., creating web sites, developing wikis, and other forms of writing online). By "skills" we don't just mean the commands for using software, but also skills in using these genres of writing for academic purposes.
A Selected Bibliography of Journal Articles and Dissertations on Communication Across the Curriculum
http://www.siu.edu/departments/cac/bibliography.html
Compiled by Chris Costello for Southern Illinois University Carbondale in March 1999, this bibliography covers general and discipline-specific WAC issues.
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Alabama Traffic School
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Alaska Defensive Driving | Alaska Traffic School
http://www.alaska-defensivedriving.com
Alaska defensive driving is available to you online, through our web site. You don't need to attend traffic school in a classroom, because courts in Alaska have approved this course to replace old-style classroom courses for dismissing your Alaska traffic ticket.
Apalachian Colleges Association Writing Across the Curriculum Project
http://vcenter.acaweb.org/wac/wacdefault.htm
This site emerges from a 1997 ACA Culpeper-funded project to assist 14 ACA member colleges. It provides access to member sites, resources, links, and publications.
Archives of the Writing Across the Curriculum Conferences
http://nationalwac.rice.edu/
Provides an archive of past WAC conferences. This site is sponsored by Rice University's WAC program.
Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW)
http://www.attw.org
ATTW brings together teachers and researchers in technical, scientific, medical, and professional communication. They publish TCQ, meet yearly, sponsor an active listserv, and maintain a top website with excellent materials.
Bibliography on assessment
http://WWW.owlnet.rice.edu/~cainproj/
Assessment Bibliography. Click on Link to Center for the Study of Engineering Communication, then choose "Resources" and click on the "Assessment Bibliography."
CAC.ophony.org
http://cac.ophony.org
cac.ophony is a weblog on communication-intensive instruction at the college level and its implications for students about to face the challenges of writing and speaking publicly in professional settings. cac.ophony is administered and maintained by the Fellows of the Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute, Baruch College, CUNY.
California Driving Education
http://www.cateendriver.com/
California Driving Education Online is committed to bring teens a top-quality online California Learners Permit course at an affordable price. California Driver Education course is DMV-approved to cover the 30-hour driver's education classroom requirement.
Campus Computing Project
http://www.campuscomputing.net/
The Campus Computing Project focuses on the use of information technology in higher education. The project's national studies draw on qualitative and quantitative data to help inform faculty, campus administrators, and others interested in the use of information technology in American colleges and universities.
Campus Writing Program, Colorado School of Mines
http://www.mines.edu/academic/lais/wc
The Colorado School of Mines (CSM) Writing Program is founded on the idea that the ability to communicate effectively will make Mines graduates more competitive, more confident, more
successful in their careers, and ultimately in a better position to influence their chosen fields, the
workplace, and our world.
Jon Leydens, Writing Program Administrator E-Mail: jleydens@mines.edu
Center for Instructional Innovation at Western Washington University
http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/cii/
The Center for Instructional Innovation (CII) is dedicated to the enhancement of teaching and learning on the campus of Western Washington University. The Center promotes discussion and debate about teaching and learning, provides support to faculty in instructional innovation and course development, and helps nurture a culture of educational innovation and instructional excellence across disciplines.
The website includes extensive teaching resources and a best practices trove in the Innovative Teaching Showcase.
Commontext.org
http://www.commontext.org/
Commontext.org bills is a collaborative Web site that offers "a new way of publishing educational materials. It addresses instructors' most common complaints about commercial textbooks by providing a permanent library of freely shared classroom texts. Instead of settling for one or more commercially published texts for students to purchase, instructors can select precisely the materials they want and either post them directly to a class Web site, or have their students download them from Commontext, at no charge. Commontext materials can even be bound and duplicated by a campus copy shop and distributed to students simply for the price of printing."
Computer Teaching Tips: Simple Ideas for Teaching Writing and Reading in Computer Labs
http://www.emunix.emich.edu/~krause/Tips/
Steve Krause, who maintains this site, writes, "I've included an eclectic variety of ideas here thinking that if some of these idea works for someone, it's a good thing, and I'd rather give people the opportunity to make their own decisions about what they think are good (or bad) ideas."
Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) Information Sources
http://www.december.com/cmc/info/index.html
From "About CMC-IS":
"This document has been known worldwide as 'The December List' since 1992 and is a comprehensive collection of information sources about computer-mediated communication and the Internet. A popular
resource for Internet trainers and students to learn about the
Internet, it is updated continuously. This document remains one of the most
widely known Internet reference documents ever created."
Council of Writing Program Administrators
http://www.wpacouncil.org
The national organization for writing program administrators, with links to all kinds of resources including policy statements, consultant-evaluator services, assessment, the WPA's annual workshop and conference, the WPA-L listserv, and much more.
CUNY Writing Fellows Initiative Announcement
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/provost/cwf.htm
This site announces CUNY's Writing Fellows Initiative, which involves more than 100 Writing Fellows -- typically upper-level doctoral candidates -- in CUNY colleges.
Defensive Driving
http://www.defensivedrivingus.com/
Defensive Driving Online offers driver education for teens, mature driver course, traffic school and defensive driving courses in various states of U.S. Each of these courses contains useful defensive driving strategies as well as information regarding state specific traffic laws.
Defining and Avoiding Plagiarism: The Council of Writing Program Administrators Statement on Best Practices
http://www.ilstu.edu/~ddhesse/wpa/positions/WPAplagiarism.pd ...
Available as a PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file, "this statement responds to the growing educational concerns about plagiarism in four ways: by defining plagiarism; by suggesting some of the causes of plagiarism; by proposing a set of responsibilities (for students, teachers, and administrators) to address the problem of plagiarism; and by recommending a set of practices for teaching and learning that can significantly reduce the likelihood of plagiarism. The statement is intended to provide helpful suggestions and clarifications so that instructors, administrators, and students can work together more effectively in support of excellence in teaching and learning."
Designing Writing Assignments
http://writing.colostate.edu/references/teaching/wassign/
This online tool gives teachers across the curriculum a series of questions to answer as they think about goals for writing in their classes and how different kinds of writing tasks might meet those goals.
Discussion Tips for Electronic Communication
http://wordsworth2.net/resource/conftips.htm
Adaptable tips for teaching with Web discussion boards and email lists plus links to assignment design ideas, strategies for generating participation, suggestions for evaluating posts, and additional resources.
DMV Practice Test
http://www.dmv-practice-test.com
DMV Practice Test - With the cooperation of Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), we accumulated a long list of the most used questions from their written exams and pooled them into random samplings of 50 questions or 100 questions packages. Our DMV Practice Test can be used as an online study guide.
Driver Education
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Driver Education is a new and innovative way for you or someone you know to prepare for their DMV Learners Permit and fulfill your driver education requirements.
Driver Education Course
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Driver Education Course. Take Driver Ed Online course at 30 hours easy DMV approved. Join Driver Education Course for taking Driver License Online or DMV learners permit.
Drivers Ed
http://www.defensivedriversed.com
Drivers Ed classes are a thrill for a teen. If you're a teen looking to get your Learners Permit or a parent trying to find a quality Driver's Education class for your teen, you've come to the right place.
Engines of Inquiry: Teaching, Technology, and Learner-Centered Approaches to Culture and History, Randy Bass, Georgetown University
http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/guide/engines.html
Bass identifies and describes, including examples, "six kinds of quality learning" that "information technologies can serve to enhance": (1) distributive learning, (2) authentic tasks and complex inquiry, (3) dialogic learning, (4) constructive learning, (5) public accountability, and (6) reflective and critical thinking. Communication technologies are central to the theories and practices.
ERIC Digest:
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d114.html
Prepared by Nancy Hyslop, this digest provides "a rationale for developing grading guides and describe the methods business communications teachers can use to construct and employ guides to provide students with quality writing instruction." It provides a brief bibiography of related ERIC documents.
ERIC Digest: Effective Use of Student Journal Writing
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d99.html
Prepared by Gary Cobine, this digest considers the uses, types, and designs of journals in writing and writing-intensive classrooms. It contains a brief bibliography of related ERIC documents.
ERIC Digest: Encouraging Writing Achievement: Writing across the Curriculum
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d62.html
Prepared by Shanon Sorenson, this digest provides a general overview of WAC. It includes a brief bibliography of ERIC documents.
ERIC Digest: Evaluating Student Writing: Methods and Measurement
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d50.html
Prepared by Nancy B. Hyslop, this digest addresses (1) the methods of response and (2) the measurement of quality as represented by effective classroom teaching methods. It contains a brief bibliography of ERIC documents.
ERIC Digest: Revision in the Writing Process
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d100.html
Prepared by Fran Lehr, this digest provides "information that can help in changing students from 'correctors' to 'revisers.'" The digest also provides a brief bibliography of related ERIC documents.
ERIC Digest: Teaching Writing with Peer Response Groups Encouraging Revision
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d38.html
Prepared by Andrea W. Herrmann, this digest contains an overview of using peer writing groups in the classroom. It provides a bibliography of ERIC documents.
ERIC Digest: Writing across the Curriculum: Toward the Year 2000
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d81.html
Prepared by Roger Sensenbaugh, this digest summarizes the more than 300 items in the ERIC database concerning writing across the curriculum (WAC) published between 1990 and 1992. It includes a brief bibliography of ERIC documents.
ERIC Digest: Writing as a Response to Reading
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d105.html
Prepared by Gary Cobine, this digest considers the relationships between writing and reading and explores the design of assignments that integrate reading and writing. It contains a brief bibliography of related ERIC documents.
ERIC Digest: Writing Assessment at the College Level
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d73.html
Prepared by Alice G. Brand, this digest reviews writing assessment--what it means and how it works--at a selected number of colleges and universities in the United States. It contains a brief bibliography of ERIC documents.
ERIC Digest: Writing Assignments, Journals, and Student Privacy
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d88.html
Prepared by Edward Jenkinson, this digest considers issues of privacy, particularly in primary and secondary schools, related to journal writing assignments. It contains a brief bibliography of related ERIC documents.
ERIC Digest: Writing Instruction: Changing Views over the Years
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d155.html
Prepared by Dr. Carl B Smith, this digest tracks changes in writing instruction since the Braddock Report (1963). The digest "shows how these changes took place and provides some background for dealing with questions that may remain unresolved." The digest provides a brief bibliography of related work.
ERIC Digest: Writing Instruction: Current Practices in the Classroom
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d156.html
Prepared by Dr. Carl B Smith, this digest "focuses on the experiences of a few teachers as they searched for ways to put the principles of process writing into practice in the classroom." The digest provides a brief bibliography of related work.
Florida Driver Education
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Florida Driving Record
http://www.florida-drivingrecord.com
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Florida Traffic School
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Florida Traffic School is approved by Florida DHSMV. Florida online traffic school featuring high quality course to reduce your insurance rates.
FreeWrit: Free Standing (Independent) Writing Programs
http://Free Standing (Independent) Writing Programs
This website is designed to provide information for all of those working in Free Standing Writing Programs or interested in them. A Free Standing Writing Program either stands outside the structure of a traditional academic department (usually an English Department) or else has departmental (or the equivalent) status or its own. This means the unit has its own budget, and its head reports directly to a Dean or a Provost.
Georgia Driving Record
http://www.georgia-drivingrecord.com
Georgia Driving Record - We process Georgia Driving Records 3 times a day and offer three methods of delivery so that you can get your Georgia Driving Record in a matter of hours.
Getting the Most from Your UWA
http://writingcenter.tamu.edu/content/view/314/119/
Advice to faculty on how to get the best performance from an Undergraduate Writing Assistant (UWA. Links to a description of the program,including responsibilities of hiring faculty, the writing center, and the UWA.
Global Learning Communities
http://www.vision.net.au/~globallearning/pages/aboutus/hww.h ...
Global Learning Communities is an education consulting firm based in Australia with offices in the United States of America and New Zealand. GLC offers a wide range of workshops, services, and resources, but this web site does not contain substantial usable material.
Incommensurability.com
http://www.incommensurability.com/
Home for a multi-authored Rhetoric of Science Project investigating the validity of Thomas Kuhn's claim that concepts and phenomena from one paradigm are incommensurable in alternative paradigms.
Innovative Teaching Showcase: Creating a Culture of Writing
http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/showcase2007/
This is an online publication created by the Center for Instructional Innovation as a way to highlight and share exceptional teaching practices by Western Washington University faculty. Each year, several instructors are nominated to participate, and then work extensively with the CII to create this in-depth resource. This year’s Showcase theme, "Creating a Culture of Writing," honors faculty who embed the writing process into their coursework and engage students with quality writing assignments. Includes faculty portfolio, syllabi, video interviews, and learning outcomes.
Inventio
http://www.doit.gmu.edu/inventio
Journal of creative thinking about learning and teaching; each issue devoted to a special topic in teaching practice and theory
Lancaster Literacy Research Centre
http://www.literacy.lancs.ac.uk/
Contains material relating to adult literacies, literate practices in the community, and academic literacies
Legal Writing Institute
http://www.lwionline.org
The Legal Writing Institute is a nonprofit corporation founded in 1984 by the University of Puget Sound School of Law – now Seattle University School of Law. The Institute’s purpose is to exchange ideas about legal writing and to provide a forum for research and scholarship about legal writing and legal analysis. The Institute is currently housed at Mercer University School of Law in Macon, Georgia.
The Institute promotes new activities through a newsletter, published twice a year; a scholarly journal, published about once a year; and a national conference that has been held every other year since 1984.
The Institute has over 1,300 members representing all the ABA-accredited law schools in the United States. The Institute also has members from other countries, as well as from English departments, independent research-and-consulting organizations, and the practicing bar. Anyone who is interested in legal writing or the teaching of legal writing may join the Institute
Media History Project
http://mediahistory.umn.edu/
Extensive set of resources for studying the development of various communicative media, including writing and print
Miami Traffic School
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Miami Traffic School offers a course that is both easy and affordable. Whether you need to clear traffic violation or you just want to improve your defensive driving skills, our Miami traffic school has the resources you need.
National Center for Education Statistics
http://nces.ed.gov/
Site of primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education. Includes National Assessment of Educational Progree results, among many other resources.
National Center for Post Secondary Teaching, Learning, and Assessment
http://www.ed.psu.edu/cshe/nctla.asp
From the Center's Mission and Goals: "The Center for the Study of Higher Education engages researchers, practitioners, and policy leaders alike in examining significant issues of practice and policy confronting higher education at the campus, state, national, and international levels. As a research center emphasizing externally-funded, policy-oriented research, the Center serves as a vital and productive magnet for research teams, individual faculty, visiting scholars, and graduate research assistants working to improve practice and policy-making in higher education."
National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy
http://www.nrdc.org.uk
NRDC is a consortium of partners, dedicated to conducting research and development projects into adult literacy, numeracy, ESOL and ICT.
The NRDC website contains a range of research reports and reviews to download or order free of charge.
National Survey of Student Engagement
http://www.iub.edu/%7Ensse/
Coordinating center for a large effort to document educational practices that encourage learning through student engagement. Centered at Indiana U.
Broad survey results compare campuses on various factors that correlate with engagement.
National Writing Project
http://writingproject.org/About/index.html
The National Writing Project focuses on helping teachers become writers. It also helps them become better writing teachers. Its primary mission "is to improve the teaching of writing and improve learning in the nation's schools."
New York Defensive Driving
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New York Defensive Driving online is a Point and Insurance Reduction course for New York drivers who have received a traffic violation. This course is entirely online, which allows you to take it when you have the time, from a location that is most convenient for you.
New York Defensive Driving
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Nizamabad District Information
http://nizamabadblog.blogspot.com
Nizamabad District information about Nizamabad Banks, Nizamabad Tourism, Nizamabad Colleges, Basara, and all other information
Online defensive driving course
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Online defensive driving class for ticket dismissal and insurance discount offering free shipping, no final exam and the lowest price allowed by law. A great way to learn.
Pace University: Guide to Writing and Technology across the Curriculum
http://webpage.pace.edu/erichie/wacguide/index.html
A guide developed during an NEH-funded Writing and Technology Assistants Program, which trained a core of students to assist professors who wished to use computers to integrate technology and writing into their courses. Began 1998. Linda Anstendig and Eugene Richie, Co-PIs
Pennsylvania Driver Education
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Prince George's Reasoning Across the Curriculum Program
http://academic.pg.cc.md.us/~wpeirce/MCCCTR/
The site contains much of interest to faculty teaching disciplinary thinking in their courses: articles, workshop handouts, lists of books on teaching thinking, links to other web sites on teaching thinking, a list of URLs for students writing persuasive arguments, and more.
San Francisco Traffic School CA
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San Francisco Traffic School is DMV/Court approved for traffic ticket dismissal that helps clean your driving record. Online San Francisco Traffic School California provides knowledge of all the driving techniques and driver laws in San Francisco County.
SUNY Cortland's Bibliography of Sources for Writing Across the Curriculum
http://www.cortland.edu/english/wac/text/bib.html
Part of SUNY Cortland's Online Manual for Writing Across the Curriculum, this extensive (non-annotated) bibliography provides lists of general and discipline-specific writing resources.
Texas Defensive Driving
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Texas Drivers Education
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The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/bb/
The fifth edition of this comprehensive bibliography, compiled by Patricia Bizzell, Bruce Herzberg, and Nedra Reynolds, is available online on the Bedford/St. Martin's site.
The Burns Telecommunication Center
http://153.90.193.41/btc/
Mission Statement: "The mission of the Burns Telecommunications Center is to mobilize resources to acquire, integrate, demonstrate, and teach applications for telecommunications and multi-media technologies that will enhance education, business and personal growth."
The Center for Information Society Studies (CISS)
http://www.ncsu.edu/ciss/about.html
The Center for Information Society Studies (CISS) is designed to aid in identifying and resolving the social and policy issues arising from technological innovation and new communication media. It seeks to establish NC State as a national leader in bridging the gap between the study of science and technology and the understanding and amelioration of social problems.
The Conference on College Composition and Communication
http://www.ncte.org/cccc
A branch of the National Council of Teachers of English, CCCC is the national organization for teachers of college writing. You'll find links to position statements, teaching resources, job advertisements, the CCCC annual convention, the CCC journal (online version, the CCCC bibliography, and much more.
The Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC)
http://www.cptsc.org/
The Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC) promotesb program development, research, and collaborative projects among programs in technical and scientific communication. The organization assists in the development and evaluation of new programs. CPTSC meets yearly in October and maintains a listserv and website in support of program development.
The Epiphany Project
http://www.has.vcu.edu/epiphany/
The Epiphany Project was a two-year national grant project funded by an Annenberg/CPB grant. The grant supported the project as it provided strategies and support to assist mainstream writing faculty with integrating technology into their classroom. Epiphany provided materials and workshops for over 40 institutions across the United States.
The EServer Tech Comm Library
http://tc.eserver.org/
Eserver is an online publishing outlet serving a variety of audiences and authors who decide that mainline publishing is not the way to go. The TC Library is a portal to many resources in tech comm. Another portal organizes resources in rhetoric.
Maintained by Geoff Sauer at U Washington.
The Online Learning Record
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~syverson/olr/
The Online Learning Record uses computer and network technology for evaluation and assessment of student work from the level of the individual to level of the program, institution, and even multiple institutions. It includes a set of electronic forms for gathering information about students' development in reading and writing.
The TLT (Teaching, Learning, and Technology) Group
http://www.tltgroup.org/
Originally part of the American Association for Higher Education, the TLT Group consults with educational institutions to improve teaching and learning with technology. An offshoot of the TLT Group, the Flashlight Project, helps institutions develop instruments to assess the effectiveness of technology use in educational settings.
Tip Sheets for Faculty Development Workshops
http://www.english.udel.edu/wc/faculty/tipsheets
These tipsheets are meant for those who conduct faculty development workshops or who just want to share good advice with faculty across the campus. We gathered the best advice from multiple sources and created topical tipsheets that are ready to print and use.
The tipsheets are Word files, so they can be customized for local use. We ask that if you use the tipsheets, that you keep the footer with the icons for the WAC Clearinghouse and the University of Delaware Writing Center.
If you would like to contribute a tipsheet of your own, email Steve Bernhardt at sab@udel.edu.
The following tipsheets are available:
Building Written and Oral Communication into Your Classroom,
Responding to Student Writing,
Peer Review,
Grading Rubrics,
Managing the Paper Load,
Alternative Paper Assignments,
How to Manage Grammar,
Preventing Plagiarism,
Using Reflective Writing in Service Learning,
Service-Learning Assignments: Using Reflective Writing for Science and Engineering Courses, and
Helpful Websites.
You can also find links to these tip sheets under the Resources/Teaching Exchange area of the WAC Clearinghouse.
University Writing Center at Texas A&M University
http://writingcenter.tamu.edu
The WID program at Texas A&M University is housed in the writing center. The writing center functions traditionally to support student writing, but it also supports faculty development and offers writing assistants to work with writing-intensive classes, among other services. Follow the links under Faculty & Advisors to see more on the WID program.
University Writing Program @ Virginia Tech
http://www.uwp.vt.edu/
Virginia Tech's University Writing Program (UWP) provides support to faculty who incorporate student writing and speaking into their courses. UWP also serves as a link between the Core Curriculum and faculty who teach Writing Intensive courses.
programs.
Virginia Tech's New Media Center
http://www.nmc.vt.edu/
Website for a model New Media Center providing services on campus for instructional materials and student resources, as well as providing services to regional communities.
WAC at George Mason University
http://wac.gmu.edu
Includes links to the several facets of WAC at GMU, e.g., the Writing Center, the WI requirement, Online Guides to Writing in the Disciplines, plus history and resources for teachers
WAC Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
http://mendota.english.wisc.edu/~WAC
Advice and samples for instructors, drawn from writing-intensive courses at UW-Madison. WAC newsletter. Info about Madison's WAC program.
WAC Resources at Richmond University
http://writing.richmond.edu/wac/resources.html
This page provides links for instructors, peer tutors, and students to improve writing throughout the University curriculum. It provides access to tools developed by University of Richmond students and staff. It also connects to outside sites that contain more writing tools.
WAC.pitt @ The University of Pittsburgh
http://www.wac.pitt.edu/
WAC.pitt contains useful information for faculty and students alike, from writing assignments and W-course guidelines to assistance with writing an essay or submitting a paper for a writing award. In conjunction with the College of Arts and Sciences, the College Writing Board, and the Writing Center, WAC.pitt seeks to improve the teaching and learning of writing in academic subjects across the curriculum.
WAC@NIU
http://www.engl.niu.edu/wac/
This site provides a short history of WAC, a wide range of WAC and WID resources, a page focusing on disciplinary writing resources, and a list of premises guiding WAC and WID at NIU.
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What Makes WAC Work: Reflections on Writing Across the Curriculum
http://wac.colostate.edu/research/wacworks/index.htm
Summaries of the presentations made during the session, "What Makes WAC Work: Reflections on Writing Across the Curriculum," at the 2004 Conference on College Composition and Communication in San Antonio, Texas.
Word Works
http://www.idbsu.edu/wcenter/issues.htm
Housed at Boise State University's writing center Web site, 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.
WPA Outcomes Statement for First-Year Composition
http://www.english.ilstu.edu/Hesse/outcomes.html
Writing Program Administrators' jointly authored outcomes statement. Adopted April 2000.
A version of this statement was published in WPA: Writing Program Administration 23.1/2 (fall/winter 1999): 59-66
Wright State University's WAC Newsletter
http://www.wright.edu/academics/wac/news.htm
In addition to providing information about WAC efforts at Wright State Univeristy, The WAC Newsletter provides articles on using writing to support teaching and learning that would be of interest to faculty at other institutions.
Writing across the Curriculum: Toward the Year 2000. ERIC Digest.
http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed354549.html
This "digest" summarizes the more than 300 items in the ERIC database concerning writing across the curriculum (WAC) published between 1990 and 1992. The "digest" offers six broad categories of material about WAC, and discusses one or two pertinent sources for each category. The "digest" is a companion piece to an earlier ERIC/RCS "Digest," "Encouraging Writing Achievement: Writing across the Curriculum" (Sorenson, 1991).
Writing Centers Research Project
http://www.louisville.edu/a-s/writingcenter/wcenters/
The Writing Centers Research Project at the University of Louisville conducts and supports research on writing center theory and practice and maintains a research repository of historical, empirical, and scholarly materials related to Writing Center Studies.
An Introduction to Writing Across the Curriculum
Top Rated!http://wac.colostate.edu/intro/
A Colorado State U introduction for faculty intended to encourage good practice across the curriculum.
Compiled by Kate Kiefer, a member of the faculty at CSU. Copyright 2000.
Communication Across the Curriculum at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Top Rated!http://www.siu.edu/departments/cac/
A well designed, comprehensive site with a wide range of resources and links.
CompPile
Top Rated!http://comppile.tamucc.edu/index.html
An ongoing inventory of publications in
post-secondary composition, rhetoric, ESL, and technical writing: 1939-1999.
A great resource for tracking down journal publications.
Keyworded. CompPiler: Rich Haswell
Edison Initiative Writing Across the Curriculum Bibliographies
Top Rated!http://www.uwm.edu/letsci/edison/wn.html
A valuable site created by Peter Sands that offers links to bibliographies in Africology, anthropology, art history, biological sciences, chemistry, communication, economics, foreign languages, general science, geosciences, history, mass communication, mathematic sciences, philosophy, physics, psychology, and sociology.
Electronic Communication Across the Curriculum
Top Rated!http://wordsworth2.net/projects/ecac/ecacbk1.htm
Electronic Communication Across the Curriculum is an edited collection in which teachers and program heads throughout the United States present adaptable models of computer-supported communication using the pedagogies of writing for learning and writing with computers -- including science, math, history, philosophy, technical writing, accounting, literature, and marketing. Edited by Donna Reiss, Dickie Selfe, and Art Young (NCTE, 1998) http://bookstore.ncte.org/default.asp?id_product=3066.
Indiana University Campus Writing Program Library
Top Rated!http://www.indiana.edu/~cwp/lib/index.html
An extensive annotated bibliography on several areas related to WAC, including both general and discipline specific sources. The bibliography also addresses tutoring, peer review, evaluation, grading and marking, ESL, critical thinking, composition, and assessment/portfolios.
Journals in Rhetoric and Composition
Top Rated! http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/english/rcweb/journallist/j ...
This list, compiled by Richard C. Gebhardt and his students at Bowling Green State University, provides an extensive listing of journals (most with URLs) in rhetoric and composition and closely- related fields.
Language and Learning Across the Curriculum
Top Rated!http://www.sfasu.edu/lalac/
This site houses a bibliography with over 300 entries, as well as brochures and other helpful resources.
National Learning Communities Homepage
Top Rated!http://learningcommons.evergreen.edu/
A comprehensive introduction to and resource for Learning Communities. Includes ideas for getting started and sustaining LCs, a resource page, and a searchable directory of 131 learning community initiatives. Programs can add themselves to the database.
The CCCC Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric 1984-1999
Top Rated!http://www.ibiblio.org/cccc/
A searchable electronic compilation of the CCCC bibliographies edited by Erika Lindemann (1984-1990), Gail Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe (1991-1994), Gail Stygall (1995-1997), and Todd Taylor (1998-1999).
WAC at the University of Richmond
Top Rated!http://writing.richmond.edu/wac/
This well designed and comprehensive site provides access to write-to-learn activities, a Writing Fellows handbook, and links to other WAC resources, among other features. You can read their newsletter at:
http://writing.richmond.edu/resources/newsletter.htm
Writing Across the Curriculum Resources for Secondary Education at the McCallie School
Top Rated!http://www.mccallie.org/wrt_ctr/facultypage.htm
This website, which focuses on secondary education, describes writing activities used within and among classes in all disciplines at McCallie. It also offers suggestions for writing activities in different disciplines to improve thinking, writing and learning.
Writing@CSU
Top Rated!http://writing.colostate.edu/
The Online Writing Center at Colorado State University is one of the largest compilation of resources for writers and teachers available online. "Resources for Writers and Teachers" include specific advice for teachers on designing and evaluating student writing, teaching specific writing skills (from narrowing topics to proofreading), and using computer technologies as teaching tools. Students can find advice on specific types or formats of papers, getting started, writing for specific audiences, and so on.
Digital Writing - Across the Curriculum
http://www.tltgroup.org/resources/GX/Digital-WAC.htm
Digital Writing - Across the Curriculum:
Implications of Technology for the Content and Outcomes Of a Liberal Education. Web Site devoted to collecting examples supporting the claim:
Faculty teaching courses in almost any discipline can teach those courses in better, richer ways if their students enter those courses with some skills in digital writing (e.g., creating web sites, developing wikis, and other forms of writing online). By "skills" we don't just mean the commands for using software, but also skills in using these genres of writing for academic purposes.
A Selected Bibliography of Journal Articles and Dissertations on Communication Across the Curriculum
http://www.siu.edu/departments/cac/bibliography.html
Compiled by Chris Costello for Southern Illinois University Carbondale in March 1999, this bibliography covers general and discipline-specific WAC issues.
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Apalachian Colleges Association Writing Across the Curriculum Project
http://vcenter.acaweb.org/wac/wacdefault.htm
This site emerges from a 1997 ACA Culpeper-funded project to assist 14 ACA member colleges. It provides access to member sites, resources, links, and publications.
Archives of the Writing Across the Curriculum Conferences
http://nationalwac.rice.edu/
Provides an archive of past WAC conferences. This site is sponsored by Rice University's WAC program.
Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW)
http://www.attw.org
ATTW brings together teachers and researchers in technical, scientific, medical, and professional communication. They publish TCQ, meet yearly, sponsor an active listserv, and maintain a top website with excellent materials.
Bibliography on assessment
http://WWW.owlnet.rice.edu/~cainproj/
Assessment Bibliography. Click on Link to Center for the Study of Engineering Communication, then choose "Resources" and click on the "Assessment Bibliography."
CAC.ophony.org
http://cac.ophony.org
cac.ophony is a weblog on communication-intensive instruction at the college level and its implications for students about to face the challenges of writing and speaking publicly in professional settings. cac.ophony is administered and maintained by the Fellows of the Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute, Baruch College, CUNY.
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Campus Computing Project
http://www.campuscomputing.net/
The Campus Computing Project focuses on the use of information technology in higher education. The project's national studies draw on qualitative and quantitative data to help inform faculty, campus administrators, and others interested in the use of information technology in American colleges and universities.
Campus Writing Program, Colorado School of Mines
http://www.mines.edu/academic/lais/wc
The Colorado School of Mines (CSM) Writing Program is founded on the idea that the ability to communicate effectively will make Mines graduates more competitive, more confident, more
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Center for Instructional Innovation at Western Washington University
http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/cii/
The Center for Instructional Innovation (CII) is dedicated to the enhancement of teaching and learning on the campus of Western Washington University. The Center promotes discussion and debate about teaching and learning, provides support to faculty in instructional innovation and course development, and helps nurture a culture of educational innovation and instructional excellence across disciplines.
The website includes extensive teaching resources and a best practices trove in the Innovative Teaching Showcase.
Commontext.org
http://www.commontext.org/
Commontext.org bills is a collaborative Web site that offers "a new way of publishing educational materials. It addresses instructors' most common complaints about commercial textbooks by providing a permanent library of freely shared classroom texts. Instead of settling for one or more commercially published texts for students to purchase, instructors can select precisely the materials they want and either post them directly to a class Web site, or have their students download them from Commontext, at no charge. Commontext materials can even be bound and duplicated by a campus copy shop and distributed to students simply for the price of printing."
Computer Teaching Tips: Simple Ideas for Teaching Writing and Reading in Computer Labs
http://www.emunix.emich.edu/~krause/Tips/
Steve Krause, who maintains this site, writes, "I've included an eclectic variety of ideas here thinking that if some of these idea works for someone, it's a good thing, and I'd rather give people the opportunity to make their own decisions about what they think are good (or bad) ideas."
Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) Information Sources
http://www.december.com/cmc/info/index.html
From "About CMC-IS":
"This document has been known worldwide as 'The December List' since 1992 and is a comprehensive collection of information sources about computer-mediated communication and the Internet. A popular
resource for Internet trainers and students to learn about the
Internet, it is updated continuously. This document remains one of the most
widely known Internet reference documents ever created."
Council of Writing Program Administrators
http://www.wpacouncil.org
The national organization for writing program administrators, with links to all kinds of resources including policy statements, consultant-evaluator services, assessment, the WPA's annual workshop and conference, the WPA-L listserv, and much more.
CUNY Writing Fellows Initiative Announcement
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/provost/cwf.htm
This site announces CUNY's Writing Fellows Initiative, which involves more than 100 Writing Fellows -- typically upper-level doctoral candidates -- in CUNY colleges.
Defensive Driving
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Defensive Driving Online offers driver education for teens, mature driver course, traffic school and defensive driving courses in various states of U.S. Each of these courses contains useful defensive driving strategies as well as information regarding state specific traffic laws.
Defining and Avoiding Plagiarism: The Council of Writing Program Administrators Statement on Best Practices
http://www.ilstu.edu/~ddhesse/wpa/positions/WPAplagiarism.pd ...
Available as a PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file, "this statement responds to the growing educational concerns about plagiarism in four ways: by defining plagiarism; by suggesting some of the causes of plagiarism; by proposing a set of responsibilities (for students, teachers, and administrators) to address the problem of plagiarism; and by recommending a set of practices for teaching and learning that can significantly reduce the likelihood of plagiarism. The statement is intended to provide helpful suggestions and clarifications so that instructors, administrators, and students can work together more effectively in support of excellence in teaching and learning."
Designing Writing Assignments
http://writing.colostate.edu/references/teaching/wassign/
This online tool gives teachers across the curriculum a series of questions to answer as they think about goals for writing in their classes and how different kinds of writing tasks might meet those goals.
Discussion Tips for Electronic Communication
http://wordsworth2.net/resource/conftips.htm
Adaptable tips for teaching with Web discussion boards and email lists plus links to assignment design ideas, strategies for generating participation, suggestions for evaluating posts, and additional resources.
DMV Practice Test
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DMV Practice Test - With the cooperation of Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), we accumulated a long list of the most used questions from their written exams and pooled them into random samplings of 50 questions or 100 questions packages. Our DMV Practice Test can be used as an online study guide.
Driver Education
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Drivers Ed
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Engines of Inquiry: Teaching, Technology, and Learner-Centered Approaches to Culture and History, Randy Bass, Georgetown University
http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/guide/engines.html
Bass identifies and describes, including examples, "six kinds of quality learning" that "information technologies can serve to enhance": (1) distributive learning, (2) authentic tasks and complex inquiry, (3) dialogic learning, (4) constructive learning, (5) public accountability, and (6) reflective and critical thinking. Communication technologies are central to the theories and practices.
ERIC Digest:
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d114.html
Prepared by Nancy Hyslop, this digest provides "a rationale for developing grading guides and describe the methods business communications teachers can use to construct and employ guides to provide students with quality writing instruction." It provides a brief bibiography of related ERIC documents.
ERIC Digest: Effective Use of Student Journal Writing
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d99.html
Prepared by Gary Cobine, this digest considers the uses, types, and designs of journals in writing and writing-intensive classrooms. It contains a brief bibliography of related ERIC documents.
ERIC Digest: Encouraging Writing Achievement: Writing across the Curriculum
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d62.html
Prepared by Shanon Sorenson, this digest provides a general overview of WAC. It includes a brief bibliography of ERIC documents.
ERIC Digest: Evaluating Student Writing: Methods and Measurement
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d50.html
Prepared by Nancy B. Hyslop, this digest addresses (1) the methods of response and (2) the measurement of quality as represented by effective classroom teaching methods. It contains a brief bibliography of ERIC documents.
ERIC Digest: Revision in the Writing Process
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d100.html
Prepared by Fran Lehr, this digest provides "information that can help in changing students from 'correctors' to 'revisers.'" The digest also provides a brief bibliography of related ERIC documents.
ERIC Digest: Teaching Writing with Peer Response Groups Encouraging Revision
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d38.html
Prepared by Andrea W. Herrmann, this digest contains an overview of using peer writing groups in the classroom. It provides a bibliography of ERIC documents.
ERIC Digest: Writing across the Curriculum: Toward the Year 2000
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d81.html
Prepared by Roger Sensenbaugh, this digest summarizes the more than 300 items in the ERIC database concerning writing across the curriculum (WAC) published between 1990 and 1992. It includes a brief bibliography of ERIC documents.
ERIC Digest: Writing as a Response to Reading
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d105.html
Prepared by Gary Cobine, this digest considers the relationships between writing and reading and explores the design of assignments that integrate reading and writing. It contains a brief bibliography of related ERIC documents.
ERIC Digest: Writing Assessment at the College Level
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d73.html
Prepared by Alice G. Brand, this digest reviews writing assessment--what it means and how it works--at a selected number of colleges and universities in the United States. It contains a brief bibliography of ERIC documents.
ERIC Digest: Writing Assignments, Journals, and Student Privacy
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d88.html
Prepared by Edward Jenkinson, this digest considers issues of privacy, particularly in primary and secondary schools, related to journal writing assignments. It contains a brief bibliography of related ERIC documents.
ERIC Digest: Writing Instruction: Changing Views over the Years
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d155.html
Prepared by Dr. Carl B Smith, this digest tracks changes in writing instruction since the Braddock Report (1963). The digest "shows how these changes took place and provides some background for dealing with questions that may remain unresolved." The digest provides a brief bibliography of related work.
ERIC Digest: Writing Instruction: Current Practices in the Classroom
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d156.html
Prepared by Dr. Carl B Smith, this digest "focuses on the experiences of a few teachers as they searched for ways to put the principles of process writing into practice in the classroom." The digest provides a brief bibliography of related work.
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Florida Driving Record
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Florida Traffic School
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FreeWrit: Free Standing (Independent) Writing Programs
http://Free Standing (Independent) Writing Programs
This website is designed to provide information for all of those working in Free Standing Writing Programs or interested in them. A Free Standing Writing Program either stands outside the structure of a traditional academic department (usually an English Department) or else has departmental (or the equivalent) status or its own. This means the unit has its own budget, and its head reports directly to a Dean or a Provost.
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Getting the Most from Your UWA
http://writingcenter.tamu.edu/content/view/314/119/
Advice to faculty on how to get the best performance from an Undergraduate Writing Assistant (UWA. Links to a description of the program,including responsibilities of hiring faculty, the writing center, and the UWA.
Global Learning Communities
http://www.vision.net.au/~globallearning/pages/aboutus/hww.h ...
Global Learning Communities is an education consulting firm based in Australia with offices in the United States of America and New Zealand. GLC offers a wide range of workshops, services, and resources, but this web site does not contain substantial usable material.
Incommensurability.com
http://www.incommensurability.com/
Home for a multi-authored Rhetoric of Science Project investigating the validity of Thomas Kuhn's claim that concepts and phenomena from one paradigm are incommensurable in alternative paradigms.
Innovative Teaching Showcase: Creating a Culture of Writing
http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/showcase2007/
This is an online publication created by the Center for Instructional Innovation as a way to highlight and share exceptional teaching practices by Western Washington University faculty. Each year, several instructors are nominated to participate, and then work extensively with the CII to create this in-depth resource. This year’s Showcase theme, "Creating a Culture of Writing," honors faculty who embed the writing process into their coursework and engage students with quality writing assignments. Includes faculty portfolio, syllabi, video interviews, and learning outcomes.
Inventio
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Journal of creative thinking about learning and teaching; each issue devoted to a special topic in teaching practice and theory
Lancaster Literacy Research Centre
http://www.literacy.lancs.ac.uk/
Contains material relating to adult literacies, literate practices in the community, and academic literacies
Legal Writing Institute
http://www.lwionline.org
The Legal Writing Institute is a nonprofit corporation founded in 1984 by the University of Puget Sound School of Law – now Seattle University School of Law. The Institute’s purpose is to exchange ideas about legal writing and to provide a forum for research and scholarship about legal writing and legal analysis. The Institute is currently housed at Mercer University School of Law in Macon, Georgia.
The Institute promotes new activities through a newsletter, published twice a year; a scholarly journal, published about once a year; and a national conference that has been held every other year since 1984.
The Institute has over 1,300 members representing all the ABA-accredited law schools in the United States. The Institute also has members from other countries, as well as from English departments, independent research-and-consulting organizations, and the practicing bar. Anyone who is interested in legal writing or the teaching of legal writing may join the Institute
Media History Project
http://mediahistory.umn.edu/
Extensive set of resources for studying the development of various communicative media, including writing and print
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National Center for Education Statistics
http://nces.ed.gov/
Site of primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education. Includes National Assessment of Educational Progree results, among many other resources.
National Center for Post Secondary Teaching, Learning, and Assessment
http://www.ed.psu.edu/cshe/nctla.asp
From the Center's Mission and Goals: "The Center for the Study of Higher Education engages researchers, practitioners, and policy leaders alike in examining significant issues of practice and policy confronting higher education at the campus, state, national, and international levels. As a research center emphasizing externally-funded, policy-oriented research, the Center serves as a vital and productive magnet for research teams, individual faculty, visiting scholars, and graduate research assistants working to improve practice and policy-making in higher education."
National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy
http://www.nrdc.org.uk
NRDC is a consortium of partners, dedicated to conducting research and development projects into adult literacy, numeracy, ESOL and ICT.
The NRDC website contains a range of research reports and reviews to download or order free of charge.
National Survey of Student Engagement
http://www.iub.edu/%7Ensse/
Coordinating center for a large effort to document educational practices that encourage learning through student engagement. Centered at Indiana U.
Broad survey results compare campuses on various factors that correlate with engagement.
National Writing Project
http://writingproject.org/About/index.html
The National Writing Project focuses on helping teachers become writers. It also helps them become better writing teachers. Its primary mission "is to improve the teaching of writing and improve learning in the nation's schools."
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Online defensive driving course
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Pace University: Guide to Writing and Technology across the Curriculum
http://webpage.pace.edu/erichie/wacguide/index.html
A guide developed during an NEH-funded Writing and Technology Assistants Program, which trained a core of students to assist professors who wished to use computers to integrate technology and writing into their courses. Began 1998. Linda Anstendig and Eugene Richie, Co-PIs
Pennsylvania Driver Education
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Prince George's Reasoning Across the Curriculum Program
http://academic.pg.cc.md.us/~wpeirce/MCCCTR/
The site contains much of interest to faculty teaching disciplinary thinking in their courses: articles, workshop handouts, lists of books on teaching thinking, links to other web sites on teaching thinking, a list of URLs for students writing persuasive arguments, and more.
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SUNY Cortland's Bibliography of Sources for Writing Across the Curriculum
http://www.cortland.edu/english/wac/text/bib.html
Part of SUNY Cortland's Online Manual for Writing Across the Curriculum, this extensive (non-annotated) bibliography provides lists of general and discipline-specific writing resources.
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Texas Drivers Education
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The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/bb/
The fifth edition of this comprehensive bibliography, compiled by Patricia Bizzell, Bruce Herzberg, and Nedra Reynolds, is available online on the Bedford/St. Martin's site.
The Burns Telecommunication Center
http://153.90.193.41/btc/
Mission Statement: "The mission of the Burns Telecommunications Center is to mobilize resources to acquire, integrate, demonstrate, and teach applications for telecommunications and multi-media technologies that will enhance education, business and personal growth."
The Center for Information Society Studies (CISS)
http://www.ncsu.edu/ciss/about.html
The Center for Information Society Studies (CISS) is designed to aid in identifying and resolving the social and policy issues arising from technological innovation and new communication media. It seeks to establish NC State as a national leader in bridging the gap between the study of science and technology and the understanding and amelioration of social problems.
The Conference on College Composition and Communication
http://www.ncte.org/cccc
A branch of the National Council of Teachers of English, CCCC is the national organization for teachers of college writing. You'll find links to position statements, teaching resources, job advertisements, the CCCC annual convention, the CCC journal (online version, the CCCC bibliography, and much more.
The Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC)
http://www.cptsc.org/
The Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC) promotesb program development, research, and collaborative projects among programs in technical and scientific communication. The organization assists in the development and evaluation of new programs. CPTSC meets yearly in October and maintains a listserv and website in support of program development.
The Epiphany Project
http://www.has.vcu.edu/epiphany/
The Epiphany Project was a two-year national grant project funded by an Annenberg/CPB grant. The grant supported the project as it provided strategies and support to assist mainstream writing faculty with integrating technology into their classroom. Epiphany provided materials and workshops for over 40 institutions across the United States.
The EServer Tech Comm Library
http://tc.eserver.org/
Eserver is an online publishing outlet serving a variety of audiences and authors who decide that mainline publishing is not the way to go. The TC Library is a portal to many resources in tech comm. Another portal organizes resources in rhetoric.
Maintained by Geoff Sauer at U Washington.
The Online Learning Record
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~syverson/olr/
The Online Learning Record uses computer and network technology for evaluation and assessment of student work from the level of the individual to level of the program, institution, and even multiple institutions. It includes a set of electronic forms for gathering information about students' development in reading and writing.
The TLT (Teaching, Learning, and Technology) Group
http://www.tltgroup.org/
Originally part of the American Association for Higher Education, the TLT Group consults with educational institutions to improve teaching and learning with technology. An offshoot of the TLT Group, the Flashlight Project, helps institutions develop instruments to assess the effectiveness of technology use in educational settings.
Tip Sheets for Faculty Development Workshops
http://www.english.udel.edu/wc/faculty/tipsheets
These tipsheets are meant for those who conduct faculty development workshops or who just want to share good advice with faculty across the campus. We gathered the best advice from multiple sources and created topical tipsheets that are ready to print and use.
The tipsheets are Word files, so they can be customized for local use. We ask that if you use the tipsheets, that you keep the footer with the icons for the WAC Clearinghouse and the University of Delaware Writing Center.
If you would like to contribute a tipsheet of your own, email Steve Bernhardt at sab@udel.edu.
The following tipsheets are available:
Building Written and Oral Communication into Your Classroom,
Responding to Student Writing,
Peer Review,
Grading Rubrics,
Managing the Paper Load,
Alternative Paper Assignments,
How to Manage Grammar,
Preventing Plagiarism,
Using Reflective Writing in Service Learning,
Service-Learning Assignments: Using Reflective Writing for Science and Engineering Courses, and
Helpful Websites.
You can also find links to these tip sheets under the Resources/Teaching Exchange area of the WAC Clearinghouse.
University Writing Center at Texas A&M University
http://writingcenter.tamu.edu
The WID program at Texas A&M University is housed in the writing center. The writing center functions traditionally to support student writing, but it also supports faculty development and offers writing assistants to work with writing-intensive classes, among other services. Follow the links under Faculty & Advisors to see more on the WID program.
University Writing Program @ Virginia Tech
http://www.uwp.vt.edu/
Virginia Tech's University Writing Program (UWP) provides support to faculty who incorporate student writing and speaking into their courses. UWP also serves as a link between the Core Curriculum and faculty who teach Writing Intensive courses.
programs.
Virginia Tech's New Media Center
http://www.nmc.vt.edu/
Website for a model New Media Center providing services on campus for instructional materials and student resources, as well as providing services to regional communities.
WAC at George Mason University
http://wac.gmu.edu
Includes links to the several facets of WAC at GMU, e.g., the Writing Center, the WI requirement, Online Guides to Writing in the Disciplines, plus history and resources for teachers
WAC Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
http://mendota.english.wisc.edu/~WAC
Advice and samples for instructors, drawn from writing-intensive courses at UW-Madison. WAC newsletter. Info about Madison's WAC program.
WAC Resources at Richmond University
http://writing.richmond.edu/wac/resources.html
This page provides links for instructors, peer tutors, and students to improve writing throughout the University curriculum. It provides access to tools developed by University of Richmond students and staff. It also connects to outside sites that contain more writing tools.
WAC.pitt @ The University of Pittsburgh
http://www.wac.pitt.edu/
WAC.pitt contains useful information for faculty and students alike, from writing assignments and W-course guidelines to assistance with writing an essay or submitting a paper for a writing award. In conjunction with the College of Arts and Sciences, the College Writing Board, and the Writing Center, WAC.pitt seeks to improve the teaching and learning of writing in academic subjects across the curriculum.
WAC@NIU
http://www.engl.niu.edu/wac/
This site provides a short history of WAC, a wide range of WAC and WID resources, a page focusing on disciplinary writing resources, and a list of premises guiding WAC and WID at NIU.
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What Makes WAC Work: Reflections on Writing Across the Curriculum
http://wac.colostate.edu/research/wacworks/index.htm
Summaries of the presentations made during the session, "What Makes WAC Work: Reflections on Writing Across the Curriculum," at the 2004 Conference on College Composition and Communication in San Antonio, Texas.
Word Works
http://www.idbsu.edu/wcenter/issues.htm
Housed at Boise State University's writing center Web site, 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.
WPA Outcomes Statement for First-Year Composition
http://www.english.ilstu.edu/Hesse/outcomes.html
Writing Program Administrators' jointly authored outcomes statement. Adopted April 2000.
A version of this statement was published in WPA: Writing Program Administration 23.1/2 (fall/winter 1999): 59-66
Wright State University's WAC Newsletter
http://www.wright.edu/academics/wac/news.htm
In addition to providing information about WAC efforts at Wright State Univeristy, The WAC Newsletter provides articles on using writing to support teaching and learning that would be of interest to faculty at other institutions.
Writing across the Curriculum: Toward the Year 2000. ERIC Digest.
http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed354549.html
This "digest" summarizes the more than 300 items in the ERIC database concerning writing across the curriculum (WAC) published between 1990 and 1992. The "digest" offers six broad categories of material about WAC, and discusses one or two pertinent sources for each category. The "digest" is a companion piece to an earlier ERIC/RCS "Digest," "Encouraging Writing Achievement: Writing across the Curriculum" (Sorenson, 1991).
Writing Centers Research Project
http://www.louisville.edu/a-s/writingcenter/wcenters/
The Writing Centers Research Project at the University of Louisville conducts and supports research on writing center theory and practice and maintains a research repository of historical, empirical, and scholarly materials related to Writing Center Studies.
An Introduction to Writing Across the Curriculum
Top Rated!http://wac.colostate.edu/intro/
A Colorado State U introduction for faculty intended to encourage good practice across the curriculum.
Compiled by Kate Kiefer, a member of the faculty at CSU. Copyright 2000.
Communication Across the Curriculum at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Top Rated!http://www.siu.edu/departments/cac/
A well designed, comprehensive site with a wide range of resources and links.
CompPile
Top Rated!http://comppile.tamucc.edu/index.html
An ongoing inventory of publications in
post-secondary composition, rhetoric, ESL, and technical writing: 1939-1999.
A great resource for tracking down journal publications.
Keyworded. CompPiler: Rich Haswell
Edison Initiative Writing Across the Curriculum Bibliographies
Top Rated!http://www.uwm.edu/letsci/edison/wn.html
A valuable site created by Peter Sands that offers links to bibliographies in Africology, anthropology, art history, biological sciences, chemistry, communication, economics, foreign languages, general science, geosciences, history, mass communication, mathematic sciences, philosophy, physics, psychology, and sociology.
Electronic Communication Across the Curriculum
Top Rated!http://wordsworth2.net/projects/ecac/ecacbk1.htm
Electronic Communication Across the Curriculum is an edited collection in which teachers and program heads throughout the United States present adaptable models of computer-supported communication using the pedagogies of writing for learning and writing with computers -- including science, math, history, philosophy, technical writing, accounting, literature, and marketing. Edited by Donna Reiss, Dickie Selfe, and Art Young (NCTE, 1998) http://bookstore.ncte.org/default.asp?id_product=3066.
Indiana University Campus Writing Program Library
Top Rated!http://www.indiana.edu/~cwp/lib/index.html
An extensive annotated bibliography on several areas related to WAC, including both general and discipline specific sources. The bibliography also addresses tutoring, peer review, evaluation, grading and marking, ESL, critical thinking, composition, and assessment/portfolios.
Journals in Rhetoric and Composition
Top Rated! http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/english/rcweb/journallist/j ...
This list, compiled by Richard C. Gebhardt and his students at Bowling Green State University, provides an extensive listing of journals (most with URLs) in rhetoric and composition and closely- related fields.
Language and Learning Across the Curriculum
Top Rated!http://www.sfasu.edu/lalac/
This site houses a bibliography with over 300 entries, as well as brochures and other helpful resources.
National Learning Communities Homepage
Top Rated!http://learningcommons.evergreen.edu/
A comprehensive introduction to and resource for Learning Communities. Includes ideas for getting started and sustaining LCs, a resource page, and a searchable directory of 131 learning community initiatives. Programs can add themselves to the database.
The CCCC Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric 1984-1999
Top Rated!http://www.ibiblio.org/cccc/
A searchable electronic compilation of the CCCC bibliographies edited by Erika Lindemann (1984-1990), Gail Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe (1991-1994), Gail Stygall (1995-1997), and Todd Taylor (1998-1999).
WAC at the University of Richmond
Top Rated!http://writing.richmond.edu/wac/
This well designed and comprehensive site provides access to write-to-learn activities, a Writing Fellows handbook, and links to other WAC resources, among other features. You can read their newsletter at:
http://writing.richmond.edu/resources/newsletter.htm
Writing Across the Curriculum Resources for Secondary Education at the McCallie School
Top Rated!http://www.mccallie.org/wrt_ctr/facultypage.htm
This website, which focuses on secondary education, describes writing activities used within and among classes in all disciplines at McCallie. It also offers suggestions for writing activities in different disciplines to improve thinking, writing and learning.
Writing@CSU
Top Rated!http://writing.colostate.edu/
The Online Writing Center at Colorado State University is one of the largest compilation of resources for writers and teachers available online. "Resources for Writers and Teachers" include specific advice for teachers on designing and evaluating student writing, teaching specific writing skills (from narrowing topics to proofreading), and using computer technologies as teaching tools. Students can find advice on specific types or formats of papers, getting started, writing for specific audiences, and so on.
Digital Writing - Across the Curriculum
http://www.tltgroup.org/resources/GX/Digital-WAC.htm
Digital Writing - Across the Curriculum:
Implications of Technology for the Content and Outcomes Of a Liberal Education. Web Site devoted to collecting examples supporting the claim:
Faculty teaching courses in almost any discipline can teach those courses in better, richer ways if their students enter those courses with some skills in digital writing (e.g., creating web sites, developing wikis, and other forms of writing online). By "skills" we don't just mean the commands for using software, but also skills in using these genres of writing for academic purposes.
A Selected Bibliography of Journal Articles and Dissertations on Communication Across the Curriculum
http://www.siu.edu/departments/cac/bibliography.html
Compiled by Chris Costello for Southern Illinois University Carbondale in March 1999, this bibliography covers general and discipline-specific WAC issues.
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Apalachian Colleges Association Writing Across the Curriculum Project
http://vcenter.acaweb.org/wac/wacdefault.htm
This site emerges from a 1997 ACA Culpeper-funded project to assist 14 ACA member colleges. It provides access to member sites, resources, links, and publications.
Archives of the Writing Across the Curriculum Conferences
http://nationalwac.rice.edu/
Provides an archive of past WAC conferences. This site is sponsored by Rice University's WAC program.
Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW)
http://www.attw.org
ATTW brings together teachers and researchers in technical, scientific, medical, and professional communication. They publish TCQ, meet yearly, sponsor an active listserv, and maintain a top website with excellent materials.
Bibliography on assessment
http://WWW.owlnet.rice.edu/~cainproj/
Assessment Bibliography. Click on Link to Center for the Study of Engineering Communication, then choose "Resources" and click on the "Assessment Bibliography."
CAC.ophony.org
http://cac.ophony.org
cac.ophony is a weblog on communication-intensive instruction at the college level and its implications for students about to face the challenges of writing and speaking publicly in professional settings. cac.ophony is administered and maintained by the Fellows of the Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute, Baruch College, CUNY.
California Driving Education
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Campus Computing Project
http://www.campuscomputing.net/
The Campus Computing Project focuses on the use of information technology in higher education. The project's national studies draw on qualitative and quantitative data to help inform faculty, campus administrators, and others interested in the use of information technology in American colleges and universities.
Campus Writing Program, Colorado School of Mines
http://www.mines.edu/academic/lais/wc
The Colorado School of Mines (CSM) Writing Program is founded on the idea that the ability to communicate effectively will make Mines graduates more competitive, more confident, more
successful in their careers, and ultimately in a better position to influence their chosen fields, the
workplace, and our world.
Jon Leydens, Writing Program Administrator E-Mail: jleydens@mines.edu
Center for Instructional Innovation at Western Washington University
http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/cii/
The Center for Instructional Innovation (CII) is dedicated to the enhancement of teaching and learning on the campus of Western Washington University. The Center promotes discussion and debate about teaching and learning, provides support to faculty in instructional innovation and course development, and helps nurture a culture of educational innovation and instructional excellence across disciplines.
The website includes extensive teaching resources and a best practices trove in the Innovative Teaching Showcase.
Commontext.org
http://www.commontext.org/
Commontext.org bills is a collaborative Web site that offers "a new way of publishing educational materials. It addresses instructors' most common complaints about commercial textbooks by providing a permanent library of freely shared classroom texts. Instead of settling for one or more commercially published texts for students to purchase, instructors can select precisely the materials they want and either post them directly to a class Web site, or have their students download them from Commontext, at no charge. Commontext materials can even be bound and duplicated by a campus copy shop and distributed to students simply for the price of printing."
Computer Teaching Tips: Simple Ideas for Teaching Writing and Reading in Computer Labs
http://www.emunix.emich.edu/~krause/Tips/
Steve Krause, who maintains this site, writes, "I've included an eclectic variety of ideas here thinking that if some of these idea works for someone, it's a good thing, and I'd rather give people the opportunity to make their own decisions about what they think are good (or bad) ideas."
Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) Information Sources
http://www.december.com/cmc/info/index.html
From "About CMC-IS":
"This document has been known worldwide as 'The December List' since 1992 and is a comprehensive collection of information sources about computer-mediated communication and the Internet. A popular
resource for Internet trainers and students to learn about the
Internet, it is updated continuously. This document remains one of the most
widely known Internet reference documents ever created."
Council of Writing Program Administrators
http://www.wpacouncil.org
The national organization for writing program administrators, with links to all kinds of resources including policy statements, consultant-evaluator services, assessment, the WPA's annual workshop and conference, the WPA-L listserv, and much more.
CUNY Writing Fellows Initiative Announcement
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/provost/cwf.htm
This site announces CUNY's Writing Fellows Initiative, which involves more than 100 Writing Fellows -- typically upper-level doctoral candidates -- in CUNY colleges.
Defensive Driving
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Defensive Driving Online offers driver education for teens, mature driver course, traffic school and defensive driving courses in various states of U.S. Each of these courses contains useful defensive driving strategies as well as information regarding state specific traffic laws.
Defining and Avoiding Plagiarism: The Council of Writing Program Administrators Statement on Best Practices
http://www.ilstu.edu/~ddhesse/wpa/positions/WPAplagiarism.pd ...
Available as a PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file, "this statement responds to the growing educational concerns about plagiarism in four ways: by defining plagiarism; by suggesting some of the causes of plagiarism; by proposing a set of responsibilities (for students, teachers, and administrators) to address the problem of plagiarism; and by recommending a set of practices for teaching and learning that can significantly reduce the likelihood of plagiarism. The statement is intended to provide helpful suggestions and clarifications so that instructors, administrators, and students can work together more effectively in support of excellence in teaching and learning."
Designing Writing Assignments
http://writing.colostate.edu/references/teaching/wassign/
This online tool gives teachers across the curriculum a series of questions to answer as they think about goals for writing in their classes and how different kinds of writing tasks might meet those goals.
Discussion Tips for Electronic Communication
http://wordsworth2.net/resource/conftips.htm
Adaptable tips for teaching with Web discussion boards and email lists plus links to assignment design ideas, strategies for generating participation, suggestions for evaluating posts, and additional resources.
DMV Practice Test
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DMV Practice Test - With the cooperation of Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), we accumulated a long list of the most used questions from their written exams and pooled them into random samplings of 50 questions or 100 questions packages. Our DMV Practice Test can be used as an online study guide.
Driver Education
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Engines of Inquiry: Teaching, Technology, and Learner-Centered Approaches to Culture and History, Randy Bass, Georgetown University
http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/guide/engines.html
Bass identifies and describes, including examples, "six kinds of quality learning" that "information technologies can serve to enhance": (1) distributive learning, (2) authentic tasks and complex inquiry, (3) dialogic learning, (4) constructive learning, (5) public accountability, and (6) reflective and critical thinking. Communication technologies are central to the theories and practices.
ERIC Digest:
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d114.html
Prepared by Nancy Hyslop, this digest provides "a rationale for developing grading guides and describe the methods business communications teachers can use to construct and employ guides to provide students with quality writing instruction." It provides a brief bibiography of related ERIC documents.
ERIC Digest: Effective Use of Student Journal Writing
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d99.html
Prepared by Gary Cobine, this digest considers the uses, types, and designs of journals in writing and writing-intensive classrooms. It contains a brief bibliography of related ERIC documents.
ERIC Digest: Encouraging Writing Achievement: Writing across the Curriculum
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d62.html
Prepared by Shanon Sorenson, this digest provides a general overview of WAC. It includes a brief bibliography of ERIC documents.
ERIC Digest: Evaluating Student Writing: Methods and Measurement
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d50.html
Prepared by Nancy B. Hyslop, this digest addresses (1) the methods of response and (2) the measurement of quality as represented by effective classroom teaching methods. It contains a brief bibliography of ERIC documents.
ERIC Digest: Revision in the Writing Process
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d100.html
Prepared by Fran Lehr, this digest provides "information that can help in changing students from 'correctors' to 'revisers.'" The digest also provides a brief bibliography of related ERIC documents.
ERIC Digest: Teaching Writing with Peer Response Groups Encouraging Revision
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d38.html
Prepared by Andrea W. Herrmann, this digest contains an overview of using peer writing groups in the classroom. It provides a bibliography of ERIC documents.
ERIC Digest: Writing across the Curriculum: Toward the Year 2000
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d81.html
Prepared by Roger Sensenbaugh, this digest summarizes the more than 300 items in the ERIC database concerning writing across the curriculum (WAC) published between 1990 and 1992. It includes a brief bibliography of ERIC documents.
ERIC Digest: Writing as a Response to Reading
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d105.html
Prepared by Gary Cobine, this digest considers the relationships between writing and reading and explores the design of assignments that integrate reading and writing. It contains a brief bibliography of related ERIC documents.
ERIC Digest: Writing Assessment at the College Level
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d73.html
Prepared by Alice G. Brand, this digest reviews writing assessment--what it means and how it works--at a selected number of colleges and universities in the United States. It contains a brief bibliography of ERIC documents.
ERIC Digest: Writing Assignments, Journals, and Student Privacy
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d88.html
Prepared by Edward Jenkinson, this digest considers issues of privacy, particularly in primary and secondary schools, related to journal writing assignments. It contains a brief bibliography of related ERIC documents.
ERIC Digest: Writing Instruction: Changing Views over the Years
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d155.html
Prepared by Dr. Carl B Smith, this digest tracks changes in writing instruction since the Braddock Report (1963). The digest "shows how these changes took place and provides some background for dealing with questions that may remain unresolved." The digest provides a brief bibliography of related work.
ERIC Digest: Writing Instruction: Current Practices in the Classroom
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d156.html
Prepared by Dr. Carl B Smith, this digest "focuses on the experiences of a few teachers as they searched for ways to put the principles of process writing into practice in the classroom." The digest provides a brief bibliography of related work.
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FreeWrit: Free Standing (Independent) Writing Programs
http://Free Standing (Independent) Writing Programs
This website is designed to provide information for all of those working in Free Standing Writing Programs or interested in them. A Free Standing Writing Program either stands outside the structure of a traditional academic department (usually an English Department) or else has departmental (or the equivalent) status or its own. This means the unit has its own budget, and its head reports directly to a Dean or a Provost.
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Getting the Most from Your UWA
http://writingcenter.tamu.edu/content/view/314/119/
Advice to faculty on how to get the best performance from an Undergraduate Writing Assistant (UWA. Links to a description of the program,including responsibilities of hiring faculty, the writing center, and the UWA.
Global Learning Communities
http://www.vision.net.au/~globallearning/pages/aboutus/hww.h ...
Global Learning Communities is an education consulting firm based in Australia with offices in the United States of America and New Zealand. GLC offers a wide range of workshops, services, and resources, but this web site does not contain substantial usable material.
Incommensurability.com
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Home for a multi-authored Rhetoric of Science Project investigating the validity of Thomas Kuhn's claim that concepts and phenomena from one paradigm are incommensurable in alternative paradigms.
Innovative Teaching Showcase: Creating a Culture of Writing
http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/showcase2007/
This is an online publication created by the Center for Instructional Innovation as a way to highlight and share exceptional teaching practices by Western Washington University faculty. Each year, several instructors are nominated to participate, and then work extensively with the CII to create this in-depth resource. This year’s Showcase theme, "Creating a Culture of Writing," honors faculty who embed the writing process into their coursework and engage students with quality writing assignments. Includes faculty portfolio, syllabi, video interviews, and learning outcomes.
Inventio
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Journal of creative thinking about learning and teaching; each issue devoted to a special topic in teaching practice and theory
Lancaster Literacy Research Centre
http://www.literacy.lancs.ac.uk/
Contains material relating to adult literacies, literate practices in the community, and academic literacies
Legal Writing Institute
http://www.lwionline.org
The Legal Writing Institute is a nonprofit corporation founded in 1984 by the University of Puget Sound School of Law – now Seattle University School of Law. The Institute’s purpose is to exchange ideas about legal writing and to provide a forum for research and scholarship about legal writing and legal analysis. The Institute is currently housed at Mercer University School of Law in Macon, Georgia.
The Institute promotes new activities through a newsletter, published twice a year; a scholarly journal, published about once a year; and a national conference that has been held every other year since 1984.
The Institute has over 1,300 members representing all the ABA-accredited law schools in the United States. The Institute also has members from other countries, as well as from English departments, independent research-and-consulting organizations, and the practicing bar. Anyone who is interested in legal writing or the teaching of legal writing may join the Institute
Media History Project
http://mediahistory.umn.edu/
Extensive set of resources for studying the development of various communicative media, including writing and print
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National Center for Education Statistics
http://nces.ed.gov/
Site of primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education. Includes National Assessment of Educational Progree results, among many other resources.
National Center for Post Secondary Teaching, Learning, and Assessment
http://www.ed.psu.edu/cshe/nctla.asp
From the Center's Mission and Goals: "The Center for the Study of Higher Education engages researchers, practitioners, and policy leaders alike in examining significant issues of practice and policy confronting higher education at the campus, state, national, and international levels. As a research center emphasizing externally-funded, policy-oriented research, the Center serves as a vital and productive magnet for research teams, individual faculty, visiting scholars, and graduate research assistants working to improve practice and policy-making in higher education."
National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy
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NRDC is a consortium of partners, dedicated to conducting research and development projects into adult literacy, numeracy, ESOL and ICT.
The NRDC website contains a range of research reports and reviews to download or order free of charge.
National Survey of Student Engagement
http://www.iub.edu/%7Ensse/
Coordinating center for a large effort to document educational practices that encourage learning through student engagement. Centered at Indiana U.
Broad survey results compare campuses on various factors that correlate with engagement.
National Writing Project
http://writingproject.org/About/index.html
The National Writing Project focuses on helping teachers become writers. It also helps them become better writing teachers. Its primary mission "is to improve the teaching of writing and improve learning in the nation's schools."
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Online defensive driving course
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Pace University: Guide to Writing and Technology across the Curriculum
http://webpage.pace.edu/erichie/wacguide/index.html
A guide developed during an NEH-funded Writing and Technology Assistants Program, which trained a core of students to assist professors who wished to use computers to integrate technology and writing into their courses. Began 1998. Linda Anstendig and Eugene Richie, Co-PIs
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Prince George's Reasoning Across the Curriculum Program
http://academic.pg.cc.md.us/~wpeirce/MCCCTR/
The site contains much of interest to faculty teaching disciplinary thinking in their courses: articles, workshop handouts, lists of books on teaching thinking, links to other web sites on teaching thinking, a list of URLs for students writing persuasive arguments, and more.
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SUNY Cortland's Bibliography of Sources for Writing Across the Curriculum
http://www.cortland.edu/english/wac/text/bib.html
Part of SUNY Cortland's Online Manual for Writing Across the Curriculum, this extensive (non-annotated) bibliography provides lists of general and discipline-specific writing resources.
Texas Defensive Driving
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Texas Drivers Education
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The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/bb/
The fifth edition of this comprehensive bibliography, compiled by Patricia Bizzell, Bruce Herzberg, and Nedra Reynolds, is available online on the Bedford/St. Martin's site.
The Burns Telecommunication Center
http://153.90.193.41/btc/
Mission Statement: "The mission of the Burns Telecommunications Center is to mobilize resources to acquire, integrate, demonstrate, and teach applications for telecommunications and multi-media technologies that will enhance education, business and personal growth."
The Center for Information Society Studies (CISS)
http://www.ncsu.edu/ciss/about.html
The Center for Information Society Studies (CISS) is designed to aid in identifying and resolving the social and policy issues arising from technological innovation and new communication media. It seeks to establish NC State as a national leader in bridging the gap between the study of science and technology and the understanding and amelioration of social problems.
The Conference on College Composition and Communication
http://www.ncte.org/cccc
A branch of the National Council of Teachers of English, CCCC is the national organization for teachers of college writing. You'll find links to position statements, teaching resources, job advertisements, the CCCC annual convention, the CCC journal (online version, the CCCC bibliography, and much more.
The Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC)
http://www.cptsc.org/
The Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC) promotesb program development, research, and collaborative projects among programs in technical and scientific communication. The organization assists in the development and evaluation of new programs. CPTSC meets yearly in October and maintains a listserv and website in support of program development.
The Epiphany Project
http://www.has.vcu.edu/epiphany/
The Epiphany Project was a two-year national grant project funded by an Annenberg/CPB grant. The grant supported the project as it provided strategies and support to assist mainstream writing faculty with integrating technology into their classroom. Epiphany provided materials and workshops for over 40 institutions across the United States.
The EServer Tech Comm Library
http://tc.eserver.org/
Eserver is an online publishing outlet serving a variety of audiences and authors who decide that mainline publishing is not the way to go. The TC Library is a portal to many resources in tech comm. Another portal organizes resources in rhetoric.
Maintained by Geoff Sauer at U Washington.
The Online Learning Record
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~syverson/olr/
The Online Learning Record uses computer and network technology for evaluation and assessment of student work from the level of the individual to level of the program, institution, and even multiple institutions. It includes a set of electronic forms for gathering information about students' development in reading and writing.
The TLT (Teaching, Learning, and Technology) Group
http://www.tltgroup.org/
Originally part of the American Association for Higher Education, the TLT Group consults with educational institutions to improve teaching and learning with technology. An offshoot of the TLT Group, the Flashlight Project, helps institutions develop instruments to assess the effectiveness of technology use in educational settings.
Tip Sheets for Faculty Development Workshops
http://www.english.udel.edu/wc/faculty/tipsheets
These tipsheets are meant for those who conduct faculty development workshops or who just want to share good advice with faculty across the campus. We gathered the best advice from multiple sources and created topical tipsheets that are ready to print and use.
The tipsheets are Word files, so they can be customized for local use. We ask that if you use the tipsheets, that you keep the footer with the icons for the WAC Clearinghouse and the University of Delaware Writing Center.
If you would like to contribute a tipsheet of your own, email Steve Bernhardt at sab@udel.edu.
The following tipsheets are available:
Building Written and Oral Communication into Your Classroom,
Responding to Student Writing,
Peer Review,
Grading Rubrics,
Managing the Paper Load,
Alternative Paper Assignments,
How to Manage Grammar,
Preventing Plagiarism,
Using Reflective Writing in Service Learning,
Service-Learning Assignments: Using Reflective Writing for Science and Engineering Courses, and
Helpful Websites.
You can also find links to these tip sheets under the Resources/Teaching Exchange area of the WAC Clearinghouse.
University Writing Center at Texas A&M University
http://writingcenter.tamu.edu
The WID program at Texas A&M University is housed in the writing center. The writing center functions traditionally to support student writing, but it also supports faculty development and offers writing assistants to work with writing-intensive classes, among other services. Follow the links under Faculty & Advisors to see more on the WID program.
University Writing Program @ Virginia Tech
http://www.uwp.vt.edu/
Virginia Tech's University Writing Program (UWP) provides support to faculty who incorporate student writing and speaking into their courses. UWP also serves as a link between the Core Curriculum and faculty who teach Writing Intensive courses.
programs.
Virginia Tech's New Media Center
http://www.nmc.vt.edu/
Website for a model New Media Center providing services on campus for instructional materials and student resources, as well as providing services to regional communities.
WAC at George Mason University
http://wac.gmu.edu
Includes links to the several facets of WAC at GMU, e.g., the Writing Center, the WI requirement, Online Guides to Writing in the Disciplines, plus history and resources for teachers
WAC Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
http://mendota.english.wisc.edu/~WAC
Advice and samples for instructors, drawn from writing-intensive courses at UW-Madison. WAC newsletter. Info about Madison's WAC program.
WAC Resources at Richmond University
http://writing.richmond.edu/wac/resources.html
This page provides links for instructors, peer tutors, and students to improve writing throughout the University curriculum. It provides access to tools developed by University of Richmond students and staff. It also connects to outside sites that contain more writing tools.
WAC.pitt @ The University of Pittsburgh
http://www.wac.pitt.edu/
WAC.pitt contains useful information for faculty and students alike, from writing assignments and W-course guidelines to assistance with writing an essay or submitting a paper for a writing award. In conjunction with the College of Arts and Sciences, the College Writing Board, and the Writing Center, WAC.pitt seeks to improve the teaching and learning of writing in academic subjects across the curriculum.
WAC@NIU
http://www.engl.niu.edu/wac/
This site provides a short history of WAC, a wide range of WAC and WID resources, a page focusing on disciplinary writing resources, and a list of premises guiding WAC and WID at NIU.
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What Makes WAC Work: Reflections on Writing Across the Curriculum
http://wac.colostate.edu/research/wacworks/index.htm
Summaries of the presentations made during the session, "What Makes WAC Work: Reflections on Writing Across the Curriculum," at the 2004 Conference on College Composition and Communication in San Antonio, Texas.
Word Works
http://www.idbsu.edu/wcenter/issues.htm
Housed at Boise State University's writing center Web site, 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.
WPA Outcomes Statement for First-Year Composition
http://www.english.ilstu.edu/Hesse/outcomes.html
Writing Program Administrators' jointly authored outcomes statement. Adopted April 2000.
A version of this statement was published in WPA: Writing Program Administration 23.1/2 (fall/winter 1999): 59-66
Wright State University's WAC Newsletter
http://www.wright.edu/academics/wac/news.htm
In addition to providing information about WAC efforts at Wright State Univeristy, The WAC Newsletter provides articles on using writing to support teaching and learning that would be of interest to faculty at other institutions.
Writing across the Curriculum: Toward the Year 2000. ERIC Digest.
http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed354549.html
This "digest" summarizes the more than 300 items in the ERIC database concerning writing across the curriculum (WAC) published between 1990 and 1992. The "digest" offers six broad categories of material about WAC, and discusses one or two pertinent sources for each category. The "digest" is a companion piece to an earlier ERIC/RCS "Digest," "Encouraging Writing Achievement: Writing across the Curriculum" (Sorenson, 1991).
Writing Centers Research Project
http://www.louisville.edu/a-s/writingcenter/wcenters/
The Writing Centers Research Project at the University of Louisville conducts and supports research on writing center theory and practice and maintains a research repository of historical, empirical, and scholarly materials related to Writing Center Studies.
An Introduction to Writing Across the Curriculum
Top Rated!http://wac.colostate.edu/intro/
A Colorado State U introduction for faculty intended to encourage good practice across the curriculum.
Compiled by Kate Kiefer, a member of the faculty at CSU. Copyright 2000.
Communication Across the Curriculum at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Top Rated!http://www.siu.edu/departments/cac/
A well designed, comprehensive site with a wide range of resources and links.
CompPile
Top Rated!http://comppile.tamucc.edu/index.html
An ongoing inventory of publications in
post-secondary composition, rhetoric, ESL, and technical writing: 1939-1999.
A great resource for tracking down journal publications.
Keyworded. CompPiler: Rich Haswell
Edison Initiative Writing Across the Curriculum Bibliographies
Top Rated!http://www.uwm.edu/letsci/edison/wn.html
A valuable site created by Peter Sands that offers links to bibliographies in Africology, anthropology, art history, biological sciences, chemistry, communication, economics, foreign languages, general science, geosciences, history, mass communication, mathematic sciences, philosophy, physics, psychology, and sociology.
Electronic Communication Across the Curriculum
Top Rated!http://wordsworth2.net/projects/ecac/ecacbk1.htm
Electronic Communication Across the Curriculum is an edited collection in which teachers and program heads throughout the United States present adaptable models of computer-supported communication using the pedagogies of writing for learning and writing with computers -- including science, math, history, philosophy, technical writing, accounting, literature, and marketing. Edited by Donna Reiss, Dickie Selfe, and Art Young (NCTE, 1998) http://bookstore.ncte.org/default.asp?id_product=3066.
Indiana University Campus Writing Program Library
Top Rated!http://www.indiana.edu/~cwp/lib/index.html
An extensive annotated bibliography on several areas related to WAC, including both general and discipline specific sources. The bibliography also addresses tutoring, peer review, evaluation, grading and marking, ESL, critical thinking, composition, and assessment/portfolios.
Journals in Rhetoric and Composition
Top Rated! http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/english/rcweb/journallist/j ...
This list, compiled by Richard C. Gebhardt and his students at Bowling Green State University, provides an extensive listing of journals (most with URLs) in rhetoric and composition and closely- related fields.
Language and Learning Across the Curriculum
Top Rated!http://www.sfasu.edu/lalac/
This site houses a bibliography with over 300 entries, as well as brochures and other helpful resources.
National Learning Communities Homepage
Top Rated!http://learningcommons.evergreen.edu/
A comprehensive introduction to and resource for Learning Communities. Includes ideas for getting started and sustaining LCs, a resource page, and a searchable directory of 131 learning community initiatives. Programs can add themselves to the database.
The CCCC Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric 1984-1999
Top Rated!http://www.ibiblio.org/cccc/
A searchable electronic compilation of the CCCC bibliographies edited by Erika Lindemann (1984-1990), Gail Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe (1991-1994), Gail Stygall (1995-1997), and Todd Taylor (1998-1999).
WAC at the University of Richmond
Top Rated!http://writing.richmond.edu/wac/
This well designed and comprehensive site provides access to write-to-learn activities, a Writing Fellows handbook, and links to other WAC resources, among other features. You can read their newsletter at:
http://writing.richmond.edu/resources/newsletter.htm
Writing Across the Curriculum Resources for Secondary Education at the McCallie School
Top Rated!http://www.mccallie.org/wrt_ctr/facultypage.htm
This website, which focuses on secondary education, describes writing activities used within and among classes in all disciplines at McCallie. It also offers suggestions for writing activities in different disciplines to improve thinking, writing and learning.
Writing@CSU
Top Rated!http://writing.colostate.edu/
The Online Writing Center at Colorado State University is one of the largest compilation of resources for writers and teachers available online. "Resources for Writers and Teachers" include specific advice for teachers on designing and evaluating student writing, teaching specific writing skills (from narrowing topics to proofreading), and using computer technologies as teaching tools. Students can find advice on specific types or formats of papers, getting started, writing for specific audiences, and so on.
Digital Writing - Across the Curriculum
http://www.tltgroup.org/resources/GX/Digital-WAC.htm
Digital Writing - Across the Curriculum:
Implications of Technology for the Content and Outcomes Of a Liberal Education. Web Site devoted to collecting examples supporting the claim:
Faculty teaching courses in almost any discipline can teach those courses in better, richer ways if their students enter those courses with some skills in digital writing (e.g., creating web sites, developing wikis, and other forms of writing online). By "skills" we don't just mean the commands for using software, but also skills in using these genres of writing for academic purposes.
A Selected Bibliography of Journal Articles and Dissertations on Communication Across the Curriculum
http://www.siu.edu/departments/cac/bibliography.html
Compiled by Chris Costello for Southern Illinois University Carbondale in March 1999, this bibliography covers general and discipline-specific WAC issues.
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Apalachian Colleges Association Writing Across the Curriculum Project
http://vcenter.acaweb.org/wac/wacdefault.htm
This site emerges from a 1997 ACA Culpeper-funded project to assist 14 ACA member colleges. It provides access to member sites, resources, links, and publications.
Archives of the Writing Across the Curriculum Conferences
http://nationalwac.rice.edu/
Provides an archive of past WAC conferences. This site is sponsored by Rice University's WAC program.
Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW)
http://www.attw.org
ATTW brings together teachers and researchers in technical, scientific, medical, and professional communication. They publish TCQ, meet yearly, sponsor an active listserv, and maintain a top website with excellent materials.
Bibliography on assessment
http://WWW.owlnet.rice.edu/~cainproj/
Assessment Bibliography. Click on Link to Center for the Study of Engineering Communication, then choose "Resources" and click on the "Assessment Bibliography."
CAC.ophony.org
http://cac.ophony.org
cac.ophony is a weblog on communication-intensive instruction at the college level and its implications for students about to face the challenges of writing and speaking publicly in professional settings. cac.ophony is administered and maintained by the Fellows of the Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute, Baruch College, CUNY.
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Campus Computing Project
http://www.campuscomputing.net/
The Campus Computing Project focuses on the use of information technology in higher education. The project's national studies draw on qualitative and quantitative data to help inform faculty, campus administrators, and others interested in the use of information technology in American colleges and universities.
Campus Writing Program, Colorado School of Mines
http://www.mines.edu/academic/lais/wc
The Colorado School of Mines (CSM) Writing Program is founded on the idea that the ability to communicate effectively will make Mines graduates more competitive, more confident, more
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Center for Instructional Innovation at Western Washington University
http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/cii/
The Center for Instructional Innovation (CII) is dedicated to the enhancement of teaching and learning on the campus of Western Washington University. The Center promotes discussion and debate about teaching and learning, provides support to faculty in instructional innovation and course development, and helps nurture a culture of educational innovation and instructional excellence across disciplines.
The website includes extensive teaching resources and a best practices trove in the Innovative Teaching Showcase.
Commontext.org
http://www.commontext.org/
Commontext.org bills is a collaborative Web site that offers "a new way of publishing educational materials. It addresses instructors' most common complaints about commercial textbooks by providing a permanent library of freely shared classroom texts. Instead of settling for one or more commercially published texts for students to purchase, instructors can select precisely the materials they want and either post them directly to a class Web site, or have their students download them from Commontext, at no charge. Commontext materials can even be bound and duplicated by a campus copy shop and distributed to students simply for the price of printing."
Computer Teaching Tips: Simple Ideas for Teaching Writing and Reading in Computer Labs
http://www.emunix.emich.edu/~krause/Tips/
Steve Krause, who maintains this site, writes, "I've included an eclectic variety of ideas here thinking that if some of these idea works for someone, it's a good thing, and I'd rather give people the opportunity to make their own decisions about what they think are good (or bad) ideas."
Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) Information Sources
http://www.december.com/cmc/info/index.html
From "About CMC-IS":
"This document has been known worldwide as 'The December List' since 1992 and is a comprehensive collection of information sources about computer-mediated communication and the Internet. A popular
resource for Internet trainers and students to learn about the
Internet, it is updated continuously. This document remains one of the most
widely known Internet reference documents ever created."
Council of Writing Program Administrators
http://www.wpacouncil.org
The national organization for writing program administrators, with links to all kinds of resources including policy statements, consultant-evaluator services, assessment, the WPA's annual workshop and conference, the WPA-L listserv, and much more.
CUNY Writing Fellows Initiative Announcement
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/provost/cwf.htm
This site announces CUNY's Writing Fellows Initiative, which involves more than 100 Writing Fellows -- typically upper-level doctoral candidates -- in CUNY colleges.
Defensive Driving
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Defensive Driving Online offers driver education for teens, mature driver course, traffic school and defensive driving courses in various states of U.S. Each of these courses contains useful defensive driving strategies as well as information regarding state specific traffic laws.
Defining and Avoiding Plagiarism: The Council of Writing Program Administrators Statement on Best Practices
http://www.ilstu.edu/~ddhesse/wpa/positions/WPAplagiarism.pd ...
Available as a PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file, "this statement responds to the growing educational concerns about plagiarism in four ways: by defining plagiarism; by suggesting some of the causes of plagiarism; by proposing a set of responsibilities (for students, teachers, and administrators) to address the problem of plagiarism; and by recommending a set of practices for teaching and learning that can significantly reduce the likelihood of plagiarism. The statement is intended to provide helpful suggestions and clarifications so that instructors, administrators, and students can work together more effectively in support of excellence in teaching and learning."
Designing Writing Assignments
http://writing.colostate.edu/references/teaching/wassign/
This online tool gives teachers across the curriculum a series of questions to answer as they think about goals for writing in their classes and how different kinds of writing tasks might meet those goals.
Discussion Tips for Electronic Communication
http://wordsworth2.net/resource/conftips.htm
Adaptable tips for teaching with Web discussion boards and email lists plus links to assignment design ideas, strategies for generating participation, suggestions for evaluating posts, and additional resources.
DMV Practice Test
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Driver Education
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Engines of Inquiry: Teaching, Technology, and Learner-Centered Approaches to Culture and History, Randy Bass, Georgetown University
http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/guide/engines.html
Bass identifies and describes, including examples, "six kinds of quality learning" that "information technologies can serve to enhance": (1) distributive learning, (2) authentic tasks and complex inquiry, (3) dialogic learning, (4) constructive learning, (5) public accountability, and (6) reflective and critical thinking. Communication technologies are central to the theories and practices.
ERIC Digest:
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d114.html
Prepared by Nancy Hyslop, this digest provides "a rationale for developing grading guides and describe the methods business communications teachers can use to construct and employ guides to provide students with quality writing instruction." It provides a brief bibiography of related ERIC documents.
ERIC Digest: Effective Use of Student Journal Writing
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d99.html
Prepared by Gary Cobine, this digest considers the uses, types, and designs of journals in writing and writing-intensive classrooms. It contains a brief bibliography of related ERIC documents.
ERIC Digest: Encouraging Writing Achievement: Writing across the Curriculum
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d62.html
Prepared by Shanon Sorenson, this digest provides a general overview of WAC. It includes a brief bibliography of ERIC documents.
ERIC Digest: Evaluating Student Writing: Methods and Measurement
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d50.html
Prepared by Nancy B. Hyslop, this digest addresses (1) the methods of response and (2) the measurement of quality as represented by effective classroom teaching methods. It contains a brief bibliography of ERIC documents.
ERIC Digest: Revision in the Writing Process
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d100.html
Prepared by Fran Lehr, this digest provides "information that can help in changing students from 'correctors' to 'revisers.'" The digest also provides a brief bibliography of related ERIC documents.
ERIC Digest: Teaching Writing with Peer Response Groups Encouraging Revision
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d38.html
Prepared by Andrea W. Herrmann, this digest contains an overview of using peer writing groups in the classroom. It provides a bibliography of ERIC documents.
ERIC Digest: Writing across the Curriculum: Toward the Year 2000
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d81.html
Prepared by Roger Sensenbaugh, this digest summarizes the more than 300 items in the ERIC database concerning writing across the curriculum (WAC) published between 1990 and 1992. It includes a brief bibliography of ERIC documents.
ERIC Digest: Writing as a Response to Reading
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d105.html
Prepared by Gary Cobine, this digest considers the relationships between writing and reading and explores the design of assignments that integrate reading and writing. It contains a brief bibliography of related ERIC documents.
ERIC Digest: Writing Assessment at the College Level
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d73.html
Prepared by Alice G. Brand, this digest reviews writing assessment--what it means and how it works--at a selected number of colleges and universities in the United States. It contains a brief bibliography of ERIC documents.
ERIC Digest: Writing Assignments, Journals, and Student Privacy
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d88.html
Prepared by Edward Jenkinson, this digest considers issues of privacy, particularly in primary and secondary schools, related to journal writing assignments. It contains a brief bibliography of related ERIC documents.
ERIC Digest: Writing Instruction: Changing Views over the Years
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d155.html
Prepared by Dr. Carl B Smith, this digest tracks changes in writing instruction since the Braddock Report (1963). The digest "shows how these changes took place and provides some background for dealing with questions that may remain unresolved." The digest provides a brief bibliography of related work.
ERIC Digest: Writing Instruction: Current Practices in the Classroom
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d156.html
Prepared by Dr. Carl B Smith, this digest "focuses on the experiences of a few teachers as they searched for ways to put the principles of process writing into practice in the classroom." The digest provides a brief bibliography of related work.
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FreeWrit: Free Standing (Independent) Writing Programs
http://Free Standing (Independent) Writing Programs
This website is designed to provide information for all of those working in Free Standing Writing Programs or interested in them. A Free Standing Writing Program either stands outside the structure of a traditional academic department (usually an English Department) or else has departmental (or the equivalent) status or its own. This means the unit has its own budget, and its head reports directly to a Dean or a Provost.
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Getting the Most from Your UWA
http://writingcenter.tamu.edu/content/view/314/119/
Advice to faculty on how to get the best performance from an Undergraduate Writing Assistant (UWA. Links to a description of the program,including responsibilities of hiring faculty, the writing center, and the UWA.
Global Learning Communities
http://www.vision.net.au/~globallearning/pages/aboutus/hww.h ...
Global Learning Communities is an education consulting firm based in Australia with offices in the United States of America and New Zealand. GLC offers a wide range of workshops, services, and resources, but this web site does not contain substantial usable material.
Incommensurability.com
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Home for a multi-authored Rhetoric of Science Project investigating the validity of Thomas Kuhn's claim that concepts and phenomena from one paradigm are incommensurable in alternative paradigms.
Innovative Teaching Showcase: Creating a Culture of Writing
http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/showcase2007/
This is an online publication created by the Center for Instructional Innovation as a way to highlight and share exceptional teaching practices by Western Washington University faculty. Each year, several instructors are nominated to participate, and then work extensively with the CII to create this in-depth resource. This year’s Showcase theme, "Creating a Culture of Writing," honors faculty who embed the writing process into their coursework and engage students with quality writing assignments. Includes faculty portfolio, syllabi, video interviews, and learning outcomes.
Inventio
http://www.doit.gmu.edu/inventio
Journal of creative thinking about learning and teaching; each issue devoted to a special topic in teaching practice and theory
Lancaster Literacy Research Centre
http://www.literacy.lancs.ac.uk/
Contains material relating to adult literacies, literate practices in the community, and academic literacies
Legal Writing Institute
http://www.lwionline.org
The Legal Writing Institute is a nonprofit corporation founded in 1984 by the University of Puget Sound School of Law – now Seattle University School of Law. The Institute’s purpose is to exchange ideas about legal writing and to provide a forum for research and scholarship about legal writing and legal analysis. The Institute is currently housed at Mercer University School of Law in Macon, Georgia.
The Institute promotes new activities through a newsletter, published twice a year; a scholarly journal, published about once a year; and a national conference that has been held every other year since 1984.
The Institute has over 1,300 members representing all the ABA-accredited law schools in the United States. The Institute also has members from other countries, as well as from English departments, independent research-and-consulting organizations, and the practicing bar. Anyone who is interested in legal writing or the teaching of legal writing may join the Institute
Media History Project
http://mediahistory.umn.edu/
Extensive set of resources for studying the development of various communicative media, including writing and print
Miami Traffic School
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Miami Traffic School offers a course that is both easy and affordable. Whether you need to clear traffic violation or you just want to improve your defensive driving skills, our Miami traffic school has the resources you need.
National Center for Education Statistics
http://nces.ed.gov/
Site of primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education. Includes National Assessment of Educational Progree results, among many other resources.
National Center for Post Secondary Teaching, Learning, and Assessment
http://www.ed.psu.edu/cshe/nctla.asp
From the Center's Mission and Goals: "The Center for the Study of Higher Education engages researchers, practitioners, and policy leaders alike in examining significant issues of practice and policy confronting higher education at the campus, state, national, and international levels. As a research center emphasizing externally-funded, policy-oriented research, the Center serves as a vital and productive magnet for research teams, individual faculty, visiting scholars, and graduate research assistants working to improve practice and policy-making in higher education."
National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy
http://www.nrdc.org.uk
NRDC is a consortium of partners, dedicated to conducting research and development projects into adult literacy, numeracy, ESOL and ICT.
The NRDC website contains a range of research reports and reviews to download or order free of charge.
National Survey of Student Engagement
http://www.iub.edu/%7Ensse/
Coordinating center for a large effort to document educational practices that encourage learning through student engagement. Centered at Indiana U.
Broad survey results compare campuses on various factors that correlate with engagement.
National Writing Project
http://writingproject.org/About/index.html
The National Writing Project focuses on helping teachers become writers. It also helps them become better writing teachers. Its primary mission "is to improve the teaching of writing and improve learning in the nation's schools."
New York Defensive Driving
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New York Defensive Driving online is a Point and Insurance Reduction course for New York drivers who have received a traffic violation. This course is entirely online, which allows you to take it when you have the time, from a location that is most convenient for you.
New York Defensive Driving
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Nizamabad District Information
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Nizamabad District information about Nizamabad Banks, Nizamabad Tourism, Nizamabad Colleges, Basara, and all other information
Online defensive driving course
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Online defensive driving class for ticket dismissal and insurance discount offering free shipping, no final exam and the lowest price allowed by law. A great way to learn.
Pace University: Guide to Writing and Technology across the Curriculum
http://webpage.pace.edu/erichie/wacguide/index.html
A guide developed during an NEH-funded Writing and Technology Assistants Program, which trained a core of students to assist professors who wished to use computers to integrate technology and writing into their courses. Began 1998. Linda Anstendig and Eugene Richie, Co-PIs
Pennsylvania Driver Education
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Pennsylvania Drivers Education at IDRIVESAFELY offers PA DMV approved Online Teen Driver Education, drivers license Courses online for teens.
Prince George's Reasoning Across the Curriculum Program
http://academic.pg.cc.md.us/~wpeirce/MCCCTR/
The site contains much of interest to faculty teaching disciplinary thinking in their courses: articles, workshop handouts, lists of books on teaching thinking, links to other web sites on teaching thinking, a list of URLs for students writing persuasive arguments, and more.
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San Francisco Traffic School is DMV/Court approved for traffic ticket dismissal that helps clean your driving record. Online San Francisco Traffic School California provides knowledge of all the driving techniques and driver laws in San Francisco County.
SUNY Cortland's Bibliography of Sources for Writing Across the Curriculum
http://www.cortland.edu/english/wac/text/bib.html
Part of SUNY Cortland's Online Manual for Writing Across the Curriculum, this extensive (non-annotated) bibliography provides lists of general and discipline-specific writing resources.
Texas Defensive Driving
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Texas Defensive Driving - Texas defensive driving online is approved by the state of Texas and Texas Education Agency (T E A) to offer online defensive driving courses.
Texas Drivers Education
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The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/bb/
The fifth edition of this comprehensive bibliography, compiled by Patricia Bizzell, Bruce Herzberg, and Nedra Reynolds, is available online on the Bedford/St. Martin's site.
The Burns Telecommunication Center
http://153.90.193.41/btc/
Mission Statement: "The mission of the Burns Telecommunications Center is to mobilize resources to acquire, integrate, demonstrate, and teach applications for telecommunications and multi-media technologies that will enhance education, business and personal growth."
The Center for Information Society Studies (CISS)
http://www.ncsu.edu/ciss/about.html
The Center for Information Society Studies (CISS) is designed to aid in identifying and resolving the social and policy issues arising from technological innovation and new communication media. It seeks to establish NC State as a national leader in bridging the gap between the study of science and technology and the understanding and amelioration of social problems.
The Conference on College Composition and Communication
http://www.ncte.org/cccc
A branch of the National Council of Teachers of English, CCCC is the national organization for teachers of college writing. You'll find links to position statements, teaching resources, job advertisements, the CCCC annual convention, the CCC journal (online version, the CCCC bibliography, and much more.
The Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC)
http://www.cptsc.org/
The Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC) promotesb program development, research, and collaborative projects among programs in technical and scientific communication. The organization assists in the development and evaluation of new programs. CPTSC meets yearly in October and maintains a listserv and website in support of program development.
The Epiphany Project
http://www.has.vcu.edu/epiphany/
The Epiphany Project was a two-year national grant project funded by an Annenberg/CPB grant. The grant supported the project as it provided strategies and support to assist mainstream writing faculty with integrating technology into their classroom. Epiphany provided materials and workshops for over 40 institutions across the United States.
The EServer Tech Comm Library
http://tc.eserver.org/
Eserver is an online publishing outlet serving a variety of audiences and authors who decide that mainline publishing is not the way to go. The TC Library is a portal to many resources in tech comm. Another portal organizes resources in rhetoric.
Maintained by Geoff Sauer at U Washington.
The Online Learning Record
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~syverson/olr/
The Online Learning Record uses computer and network technology for evaluation and assessment of student work from the level of the individual to level of the program, institution, and even multiple institutions. It includes a set of electronic forms for gathering information about students' development in reading and writing.
The TLT (Teaching, Learning, and Technology) Group
http://www.tltgroup.org/
Originally part of the American Association for Higher Education, the TLT Group consults with educational institutions to improve teaching and learning with technology. An offshoot of the TLT Group, the Flashlight Project, helps institutions develop instruments to assess the effectiveness of technology use in educational settings.
Tip Sheets for Faculty Development Workshops
http://www.english.udel.edu/wc/faculty/tipsheets
These tipsheets are meant for those who conduct faculty development workshops or who just want to share good advice with faculty across the campus. We gathered the best advice from multiple sources and created topical tipsheets that are ready to print and use.
The tipsheets are Word files, so they can be customized for local use. We ask that if you use the tipsheets, that you keep the footer with the icons for the WAC Clearinghouse and the University of Delaware Writing Center.
If you would like to contribute a tipsheet of your own, email Steve Bernhardt at sab@udel.edu.
The following tipsheets are available:
Building Written and Oral Communication into Your Classroom,
Responding to Student Writing,
Peer Review,
Grading Rubrics,
Managing the Paper Load,
Alternative Paper Assignments,
How to Manage Grammar,
Preventing Plagiarism,
Using Reflective Writing in Service Learning,
Service-Learning Assignments: Using Reflective Writing for Science and Engineering Courses, and
Helpful Websites.
You can also find links to these tip sheets under the Resources/Teaching Exchange area of the WAC Clearinghouse.
University Writing Center at Texas A&M University
http://writingcenter.tamu.edu
The WID program at Texas A&M University is housed in the writing center. The writing center functions traditionally to support student writing, but it also supports faculty development and offers writing assistants to work with writing-intensive classes, among other services. Follow the links under Faculty & Advisors to see more on the WID program.
University Writing Program @ Virginia Tech
http://www.uwp.vt.edu/
Virginia Tech's University Writing Program (UWP) provides support to faculty who incorporate student writing and speaking into their courses. UWP also serves as a link between the Core Curriculum and faculty who teach Writing Intensive courses.
programs.
Virginia Tech's New Media Center
http://www.nmc.vt.edu/
Website for a model New Media Center providing services on campus for instructional materials and student resources, as well as providing services to regional communities.
WAC at George Mason University
http://wac.gmu.edu
Includes links to the several facets of WAC at GMU, e.g., the Writing Center, the WI requirement, Online Guides to Writing in the Disciplines, plus history and resources for teachers
WAC Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
http://mendota.english.wisc.edu/~WAC
Advice and samples for instructors, drawn from writing-intensive courses at UW-Madison. WAC newsletter. Info about Madison's WAC program.
WAC Resources at Richmond University
http://writing.richmond.edu/wac/resources.html
This page provides links for instructors, peer tutors, and students to improve writing throughout the University curriculum. It provides access to tools developed by University of Richmond students and staff. It also connects to outside sites that contain more writing tools.
WAC.pitt @ The University of Pittsburgh
http://www.wac.pitt.edu/
WAC.pitt contains useful information for faculty and students alike, from writing assignments and W-course guidelines to assistance with writing an essay or submitting a paper for a writing award. In conjunction with the College of Arts and Sciences, the College Writing Board, and the Writing Center, WAC.pitt seeks to improve the teaching and learning of writing in academic subjects across the curriculum.
WAC@NIU
http://www.engl.niu.edu/wac/
This site provides a short history of WAC, a wide range of WAC and WID resources, a page focusing on disciplinary writing resources, and a list of premises guiding WAC and WID at NIU.
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What Makes WAC Work: Reflections on Writing Across the Curriculum
http://wac.colostate.edu/research/wacworks/index.htm
Summaries of the presentations made during the session, "What Makes WAC Work: Reflections on Writing Across the Curriculum," at the 2004 Conference on College Composition and Communication in San Antonio, Texas.
Word Works
http://www.idbsu.edu/wcenter/issues.htm
Housed at Boise State University's writing center Web site, 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.
WPA Outcomes Statement for First-Year Composition
http://www.english.ilstu.edu/Hesse/outcomes.html
Writing Program Administrators' jointly authored outcomes statement. Adopted April 2000.
A version of this statement was published in WPA: Writing Program Administration 23.1/2 (fall/winter 1999): 59-66
Wright State University's WAC Newsletter
http://www.wright.edu/academics/wac/news.htm
In addition to providing information about WAC efforts at Wright State Univeristy, The WAC Newsletter provides articles on using writing to support teaching and learning that would be of interest to faculty at other institutions.
Writing across the Curriculum: Toward the Year 2000. ERIC Digest.
http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed354549.html
This "digest" summarizes the more than 300 items in the ERIC database concerning writing across the curriculum (WAC) published between 1990 and 1992. The "digest" offers six broad categories of material about WAC, and discusses one or two pertinent sources for each category. The "digest" is a companion piece to an earlier ERIC/RCS "Digest," "Encouraging Writing Achievement: Writing across the Curriculum" (Sorenson, 1991).
Writing Centers Research Project
http://www.louisville.edu/a-s/writingcenter/wcenters/
The Writing Centers Research Project at the University of Louisville conducts and supports research on writing center theory and practice and maintains a research repository of historical, empirical, and scholarly materials related to Writing Center Studies.
An Introduction to Writing Across the Curriculum
Top Rated!http://wac.colostate.edu/intro/
A Colorado State U introduction for faculty intended to encourage good practice across the curriculum.
Compiled by Kate Kiefer, a member of the faculty at CSU. Copyright 2000.
Communication Across the Curriculum at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Top Rated!http://www.siu.edu/departments/cac/
A well designed, comprehensive site with a wide range of resources and links.
CompPile
Top Rated!http://comppile.tamucc.edu/index.html
An ongoing inventory of publications in
post-secondary composition, rhetoric, ESL, and technical writing: 1939-1999.
A great resource for tracking down journal publications.
Keyworded. CompPiler: Rich Haswell
Edison Initiative Writing Across the Curriculum Bibliographies
Top Rated!http://www.uwm.edu/letsci/edison/wn.html
A valuable site created by Peter Sands that offers links to bibliographies in Africology, anthropology, art history, biological sciences, chemistry, communication, economics, foreign languages, general science, geosciences, history, mass communication, mathematic sciences, philosophy, physics, psychology, and sociology.
Electronic Communication Across the Curriculum
Top Rated!http://wordsworth2.net/projects/ecac/ecacbk1.htm
Electronic Communication Across the Curriculum is an edited collection in which teachers and program heads throughout the United States present adaptable models of computer-supported communication using the pedagogies of writing for learning and writing with computers -- including science, math, history, philosophy, technical writing, accounting, literature, and marketing. Edited by Donna Reiss, Dickie Selfe, and Art Young (NCTE, 1998) http://bookstore.ncte.org/default.asp?id_product=3066.
Indiana University Campus Writing Program Library
Top Rated!http://www.indiana.edu/~cwp/lib/index.html
An extensive annotated bibliography on several areas related to WAC, including both general and discipline specific sources. The bibliography also addresses tutoring, peer review, evaluation, grading and marking, ESL, critical thinking, composition, and assessment/portfolios.
Journals in Rhetoric and Composition
Top Rated! http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/english/rcweb/journallist/j ...
This list, compiled by Richard C. Gebhardt and his students at Bowling Green State University, provides an extensive listing of journals (most with URLs) in rhetoric and composition and closely- related fields.
Language and Learning Across the Curriculum
Top Rated!http://www.sfasu.edu/lalac/
This site houses a bibliography with over 300 entries, as well as brochures and other helpful resources.
National Learning Communities Homepage
Top Rated!http://learningcommons.evergreen.edu/
A comprehensive introduction to and resource for Learning Communities. Includes ideas for getting started and sustaining LCs, a resource page, and a searchable directory of 131 learning community initiatives. Programs can add themselves to the database.
The CCCC Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric 1984-1999
Top Rated!http://www.ibiblio.org/cccc/
A searchable electronic compilation of the CCCC bibliographies edited by Erika Lindemann (1984-1990), Gail Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe (1991-1994), Gail Stygall (1995-1997), and Todd Taylor (1998-1999).
WAC at the University of Richmond
Top Rated!http://writing.richmond.edu/wac/
This well designed and comprehensive site provides access to write-to-learn activities, a Writing Fellows handbook, and links to other WAC resources, among other features. You can read their newsletter at:
http://writing.richmond.edu/resources/newsletter.htm
Writing Across the Curriculum Resources for Secondary Education at the McCallie School
Top Rated!http://www.mccallie.org/wrt_ctr/facultypage.htm
This website, which focuses on secondary education, describes writing activities used within and among classes in all disciplines at McCallie. It also offers suggestions for writing activities in different disciplines to improve thinking, writing and learning.
Writing@CSU
Top Rated!http://writing.colostate.edu/
The Online Writing Center at Colorado State University is one of the largest compilation of resources for writers and teachers available online. "Resources for Writers and Teachers" include specific advice for teachers on designing and evaluating student writing, teaching specific writing skills (from narrowing topics to proofreading), and using computer technologies as teaching tools. Students can find advice on specific types or formats of papers, getting started, writing for specific audiences, and so on.
Digital Writing - Across the Curriculum
http://www.tltgroup.org/resources/GX/Digital-WAC.htm
Digital Writing - Across the Curriculum:
Implications of Technology for the Content and Outcomes Of a Liberal Education. Web Site devoted to collecting examples supporting the claim:
Faculty teaching courses in almost any discipline can teach those courses in better, richer ways if their students enter those courses with some skills in digital writing (e.g., creating web sites, developing wikis, and other forms of writing online). By "skills" we don't just mean the commands for using software, but also skills in using these genres of writing for academic purposes.
A Selected Bibliography of Journal Articles and Dissertations on Communication Across the Curriculum
http://www.siu.edu/departments/cac/bibliography.html
Compiled by Chris Costello for Southern Illinois University Carbondale in March 1999, this bibliography covers general and discipline-specific WAC issues.
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Apalachian Colleges Association Writing Across the Curriculum Project
http://vcenter.acaweb.org/wac/wacdefault.htm
This site emerges from a 1997 ACA Culpeper-funded project to assist 14 ACA member colleges. It provides access to member sites, resources, links, and publications.
Archives of the Writing Across the Curriculum Conferences
http://nationalwac.rice.edu/
Provides an archive of past WAC conferences. This site is sponsored by Rice University's WAC program.
Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW)
http://www.attw.org
ATTW brings together teachers and researchers in technical, scientific, medical, and professional communication. They publish TCQ, meet yearly, sponsor an active listserv, and maintain a top website with excellent materials.
Bibliography on assessment
http://WWW.owlnet.rice.edu/~cainproj/
Assessment Bibliography. Click on Link to Center for the Study of Engineering Communication, then choose "Resources" and click on the "Assessment Bibliography."
CAC.ophony.org
http://cac.ophony.org
cac.ophony is a weblog on communication-intensive instruction at the college level and its implications for students about to face the challenges of writing and speaking publicly in professional settings. cac.ophony is administered and maintained by the Fellows of the Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute, Baruch College, CUNY.
California Driving Education
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Campus Computing Project
http://www.campuscomputing.net/
The Campus Computing Project focuses on the use of information technology in higher education. The project's national studies draw on qualitative and quantitative data to help inform faculty, campus administrators, and others interested in the use of information technology in American colleges and universities.
Campus Writing Program, Colorado School of Mines
http://www.mines.edu/academic/lais/wc
The Colorado School of Mines (CSM) Writing Program is founded on the idea that the ability to communicate effectively will make Mines graduates more competitive, more confident, more
successful in their careers, and ultimately in a better position to influence their chosen fields, the
workplace, and our world.
Jon Leydens, Writing Program Administrator E-Mail: jleydens@mines.edu
Center for Instructional Innovation at Western Washington University
http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/cii/
The Center for Instructional Innovation (CII) is dedicated to the enhancement of teaching and learning on the campus of Western Washington University. The Center promotes discussion and debate about teaching and learning, provides support to faculty in instructional innovation and course development, and helps nurture a culture of educational innovation and instructional excellence across disciplines.
The website includes extensive teaching resources and a best practices trove in the Innovative Teaching Showcase.
Commontext.org
http://www.commontext.org/
Commontext.org bills is a collaborative Web site that offers "a new way of publishing educational materials. It addresses instructors' most common complaints about commercial textbooks by providing a permanent library of freely shared classroom texts. Instead of settling for one or more commercially published texts for students to purchase, instructors can select precisely the materials they want and either post them directly to a class Web site, or have their students download them from Commontext, at no charge. Commontext materials can even be bound and duplicated by a campus copy shop and distributed to students simply for the price of printing."
Computer Teaching Tips: Simple Ideas for Teaching Writing and Reading in Computer Labs
http://www.emunix.emich.edu/~krause/Tips/
Steve Krause, who maintains this site, writes, "I've included an eclectic variety of ideas here thinking that if some of these idea works for someone, it's a good thing, and I'd rather give people the opportunity to make their own decisions about what they think are good (or bad) ideas."
Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) Information Sources
http://www.december.com/cmc/info/index.html
From "About CMC-IS":
"This document has been known worldwide as 'The December List' since 1992 and is a comprehensive collection of information sources about computer-mediated communication and the Internet. A popular
resource for Internet trainers and students to learn about the
Internet, it is updated continuously. This document remains one of the most
widely known Internet reference documents ever created."
Council of Writing Program Administrators
http://www.wpacouncil.org
The national organization for writing program administrators, with links to all kinds of resources including policy statements, consultant-evaluator services, assessment, the WPA's annual workshop and conference, the WPA-L listserv, and much more.
CUNY Writing Fellows Initiative Announcement
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/provost/cwf.htm
This site announces CUNY's Writing Fellows Initiative, which involves more than 100 Writing Fellows -- typically upper-level doctoral candidates -- in CUNY colleges.
Defensive Driving
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Defensive Driving Online offers driver education for teens, mature driver course, traffic school and defensive driving courses in various states of U.S. Each of these courses contains useful defensive driving strategies as well as information regarding state specific traffic laws.
Defining and Avoiding Plagiarism: The Council of Writing Program Administrators Statement on Best Practices
http://www.ilstu.edu/~ddhesse/wpa/positions/WPAplagiarism.pd ...
Available as a PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file, "this statement responds to the growing educational concerns about plagiarism in four ways: by defining plagiarism; by suggesting some of the causes of plagiarism; by proposing a set of responsibilities (for students, teachers, and administrators) to address the problem of plagiarism; and by recommending a set of practices for teaching and learning that can significantly reduce the likelihood of plagiarism. The statement is intended to provide helpful suggestions and clarifications so that instructors, administrators, and students can work together more effectively in support of excellence in teaching and learning."
Designing Writing Assignments
http://writing.colostate.edu/references/teaching/wassign/
This online tool gives teachers across the curriculum a series of questions to answer as they think about goals for writing in their classes and how different kinds of writing tasks might meet those goals.
Discussion Tips for Electronic Communication
http://wordsworth2.net/resource/conftips.htm
Adaptable tips for teaching with Web discussion boards and email lists plus links to assignment design ideas, strategies for generating participation, suggestions for evaluating posts, and additional resources.
DMV Practice Test
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Driver Education
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Engines of Inquiry: Teaching, Technology, and Learner-Centered Approaches to Culture and History, Randy Bass, Georgetown University
http://www.georgetown.edu/crossroads/guide/engines.html
Bass identifies and describes, including examples, "six kinds of quality learning" that "information technologies can serve to enhance": (1) distributive learning, (2) authentic tasks and complex inquiry, (3) dialogic learning, (4) constructive learning, (5) public accountability, and (6) reflective and critical thinking. Communication technologies are central to the theories and practices.
ERIC Digest:
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d114.html
Prepared by Nancy Hyslop, this digest provides "a rationale for developing grading guides and describe the methods business communications teachers can use to construct and employ guides to provide students with quality writing instruction." It provides a brief bibiography of related ERIC documents.
ERIC Digest: Effective Use of Student Journal Writing
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d99.html
Prepared by Gary Cobine, this digest considers the uses, types, and designs of journals in writing and writing-intensive classrooms. It contains a brief bibliography of related ERIC documents.
ERIC Digest: Encouraging Writing Achievement: Writing across the Curriculum
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d62.html
Prepared by Shanon Sorenson, this digest provides a general overview of WAC. It includes a brief bibliography of ERIC documents.
ERIC Digest: Evaluating Student Writing: Methods and Measurement
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d50.html
Prepared by Nancy B. Hyslop, this digest addresses (1) the methods of response and (2) the measurement of quality as represented by effective classroom teaching methods. It contains a brief bibliography of ERIC documents.
ERIC Digest: Revision in the Writing Process
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d100.html
Prepared by Fran Lehr, this digest provides "information that can help in changing students from 'correctors' to 'revisers.'" The digest also provides a brief bibliography of related ERIC documents.
ERIC Digest: Teaching Writing with Peer Response Groups Encouraging Revision
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d38.html
Prepared by Andrea W. Herrmann, this digest contains an overview of using peer writing groups in the classroom. It provides a bibliography of ERIC documents.
ERIC Digest: Writing across the Curriculum: Toward the Year 2000
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d81.html
Prepared by Roger Sensenbaugh, this digest summarizes the more than 300 items in the ERIC database concerning writing across the curriculum (WAC) published between 1990 and 1992. It includes a brief bibliography of ERIC documents.
ERIC Digest: Writing as a Response to Reading
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d105.html
Prepared by Gary Cobine, this digest considers the relationships between writing and reading and explores the design of assignments that integrate reading and writing. It contains a brief bibliography of related ERIC documents.
ERIC Digest: Writing Assessment at the College Level
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d73.html
Prepared by Alice G. Brand, this digest reviews writing assessment--what it means and how it works--at a selected number of colleges and universities in the United States. It contains a brief bibliography of ERIC documents.
ERIC Digest: Writing Assignments, Journals, and Student Privacy
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d88.html
Prepared by Edward Jenkinson, this digest considers issues of privacy, particularly in primary and secondary schools, related to journal writing assignments. It contains a brief bibliography of related ERIC documents.
ERIC Digest: Writing Instruction: Changing Views over the Years
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d155.html
Prepared by Dr. Carl B Smith, this digest tracks changes in writing instruction since the Braddock Report (1963). The digest "shows how these changes took place and provides some background for dealing with questions that may remain unresolved." The digest provides a brief bibliography of related work.
ERIC Digest: Writing Instruction: Current Practices in the Classroom
http://eric.indiana.edu/ieo/digests/d156.html
Prepared by Dr. Carl B Smith, this digest "focuses on the experiences of a few teachers as they searched for ways to put the principles of process writing into practice in the classroom." The digest provides a brief bibliography of related work.
Florida Driver Education
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Get your Florida Driver Education Online at I DRIVE SAFELY. Save time and money in taking our Florida state DMV approved Florida First Time Driver Course.
Florida Driving Record
http://www.florida-drivingrecord.com
Florida Driving Record - Get your 3-year & 7-year Florida Driving Record the easy, convenient way online. No waiting in line at the DHSMV.
Florida Traffic School
http://www.trafficschoolonlineflorida.com
Florida Traffic School is approved by Florida DHSMV. Florida online traffic school featuring high quality course to reduce your insurance rates.
FreeWrit: Free Standing (Independent) Writing Programs
http://Free Standing (Independent) Writing Programs
This website is designed to provide information for all of those working in Free Standing Writing Programs or interested in them. A Free Standing Writing Program either stands outside the structure of a traditional academic department (usually an English Department) or else has departmental (or the equivalent) status or its own. This means the unit has its own budget, and its head reports directly to a Dean or a Provost.
Georgia Driving Record
http://www.georgia-drivingrecord.com
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Getting the Most from Your UWA
http://writingcenter.tamu.edu/content/view/314/119/
Advice to faculty on how to get the best performance from an Undergraduate Writing Assistant (UWA. Links to a description of the program,including responsibilities of hiring faculty, the writing center, and the UWA.
Global Learning Communities
http://www.vision.net.au/~globallearning/pages/aboutus/hww.h ...
Global Learning Communities is an education consulting firm based in Australia with offices in the United States of America and New Zealand. GLC offers a wide range of workshops, services, and resources, but this web site does not contain substantial usable material.
Incommensurability.com
http://www.incommensurability.com/
Home for a multi-authored Rhetoric of Science Project investigating the validity of Thomas Kuhn's claim that concepts and phenomena from one paradigm are incommensurable in alternative paradigms.
Innovative Teaching Showcase: Creating a Culture of Writing
http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/showcase2007/
This is an online publication created by the Center for Instructional Innovation as a way to highlight and share exceptional teaching practices by Western Washington University faculty. Each year, several instructors are nominated to participate, and then work extensively with the CII to create this in-depth resource. This year’s Showcase theme, "Creating a Culture of Writing," honors faculty who embed the writing process into their coursework and engage students with quality writing assignments. Includes faculty portfolio, syllabi, video interviews, and learning outcomes.
Inventio
http://www.doit.gmu.edu/inventio
Journal of creative thinking about learning and teaching; each issue devoted to a special topic in teaching practice and theory
Lancaster Literacy Research Centre
http://www.literacy.lancs.ac.uk/
Contains material relating to adult literacies, literate practices in the community, and academic literacies
Legal Writing Institute
http://www.lwionline.org
The Legal Writing Institute is a nonprofit corporation founded in 1984 by the University of Puget Sound School of Law – now Seattle University School of Law. The Institute’s purpose is to exchange ideas about legal writing and to provide a forum for research and scholarship about legal writing and legal analysis. The Institute is currently housed at Mercer University School of Law in Macon, Georgia.
The Institute promotes new activities through a newsletter, published twice a year; a scholarly journal, published about once a year; and a national conference that has been held every other year since 1984.
The Institute has over 1,300 members representing all the ABA-accredited law schools in the United States. The Institute also has members from other countries, as well as from English departments, independent research-and-consulting organizations, and the practicing bar. Anyone who is interested in legal writing or the teaching of legal writing may join the Institute
Media History Project
http://mediahistory.umn.edu/
Extensive set of resources for studying the development of various communicative media, including writing and print
Miami Traffic School
http://www.miami-trafficschool.com
Miami Traffic School offers a course that is both easy and affordable. Whether you need to clear traffic violation or you just want to improve your defensive driving skills, our Miami traffic school has the resources you need.
National Center for Education Statistics
http://nces.ed.gov/
Site of primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education. Includes National Assessment of Educational Progree results, among many other resources.
National Center for Post Secondary Teaching, Learning, and Assessment
http://www.ed.psu.edu/cshe/nctla.asp
From the Center's Mission and Goals: "The Center for the Study of Higher Education engages researchers, practitioners, and policy leaders alike in examining significant issues of practice and policy confronting higher education at the campus, state, national, and international levels. As a research center emphasizing externally-funded, policy-oriented research, the Center serves as a vital and productive magnet for research teams, individual faculty, visiting scholars, and graduate research assistants working to improve practice and policy-making in higher education."
National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy
http://www.nrdc.org.uk
NRDC is a consortium of partners, dedicated to conducting research and development projects into adult literacy, numeracy, ESOL and ICT.
The NRDC website contains a range of research reports and reviews to download or order free of charge.
National Survey of Student Engagement
http://www.iub.edu/%7Ensse/
Coordinating center for a large effort to document educational practices that encourage learning through student engagement. Centered at Indiana U.
Broad survey results compare campuses on various factors that correlate with engagement.
National Writing Project
http://writingproject.org/About/index.html
The National Writing Project focuses on helping teachers become writers. It also helps them become better writing teachers. Its primary mission "is to improve the teaching of writing and improve learning in the nation's schools."
New York Defensive Driving
http://www.newyork-defensivedriving.com
New York Defensive Driving online is a Point and Insurance Reduction course for New York drivers who have received a traffic violation. This course is entirely online, which allows you to take it when you have the time, from a location that is most convenient for you.
New York Defensive Driving
http://www.idrivesafely.com/New_York
New York Defensive Driving – We offer 100% Online New York State Defensive Driving, Point and Insurance Reduction Courses, so you can study wherever there’s a computer with an Internet connection.
Nizamabad District Information
http://nizamabadblog.blogspot.com
Nizamabad District information about Nizamabad Banks, Nizamabad Tourism, Nizamabad Colleges, Basara, and all other information
Online defensive driving course
http://www.gentlysdriving.com
Online defensive driving class for ticket dismissal and insurance discount offering free shipping, no final exam and the lowest price allowed by law. A great way to learn.
Pace University: Guide to Writing and Technology across the Curriculum
http://webpage.pace.edu/erichie/wacguide/index.html
A guide developed during an NEH-funded Writing and Technology Assistants Program, which trained a core of students to assist professors who wished to use computers to integrate technology and writing into their courses. Began 1998. Linda Anstendig and Eugene Richie, Co-PIs
Pennsylvania Driver Education
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Pennsylvania Drivers Education at IDRIVESAFELY offers PA DMV approved Online Teen Driver Education, drivers license Courses online for teens.
Prince George's Reasoning Across the Curriculum Program
http://academic.pg.cc.md.us/~wpeirce/MCCCTR/
The site contains much of interest to faculty teaching disciplinary thinking in their courses: articles, workshop handouts, lists of books on teaching thinking, links to other web sites on teaching thinking, a list of URLs for students writing persuasive arguments, and more.
San Francisco Traffic School CA
http://www.sanfrancisco-trafficschool.com
San Francisco Traffic School is DMV/Court approved for traffic ticket dismissal that helps clean your driving record. Online San Francisco Traffic School California provides knowledge of all the driving techniques and driver laws in San Francisco County.
SUNY Cortland's Bibliography of Sources for Writing Across the Curriculum
http://www.cortland.edu/english/wac/text/bib.html
Part of SUNY Cortland's Online Manual for Writing Across the Curriculum, this extensive (non-annotated) bibliography provides lists of general and discipline-specific writing resources.
Texas Defensive Driving
http://www.texas-defensivedriving-online.com
Texas Defensive Driving - Texas defensive driving online is approved by the state of Texas and Texas Education Agency (T E A) to offer online defensive driving courses.
Texas Drivers Education
http://www.texasteendriversed.com
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The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/bb/
The fifth edition of this comprehensive bibliography, compiled by Patricia Bizzell, Bruce Herzberg, and Nedra Reynolds, is available online on the Bedford/St. Martin's site.
The Burns Telecommunication Center
http://153.90.193.41/btc/
Mission Statement: "The mission of the Burns Telecommunications Center is to mobilize resources to acquire, integrate, demonstrate, and teach applications for telecommunications and multi-media technologies that will enhance education, business and personal growth."
The Center for Information Society Studies (CISS)
http://www.ncsu.edu/ciss/about.html
The Center for Information Society Studies (CISS) is designed to aid in identifying and resolving the social and policy issues arising from technological innovation and new communication media. It seeks to establish NC State as a national leader in bridging the gap between the study of science and technology and the understanding and amelioration of social problems.
The Conference on College Composition and Communication
http://www.ncte.org/cccc
A branch of the National Council of Teachers of English, CCCC is the national organization for teachers of college writing. You'll find links to position statements, teaching resources, job advertisements, the CCCC annual convention, the CCC journal (online version, the CCCC bibliography, and much more.
The Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC)
http://www.cptsc.org/
The Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC) promotesb program development, research, and collaborative projects among programs in technical and scientific communication. The organization assists in the development and evaluation of new programs. CPTSC meets yearly in October and maintains a listserv and website in support of program development.
The Epiphany Project
http://www.has.vcu.edu/epiphany/
The Epiphany Project was a two-year national grant project funded by an Annenberg/CPB grant. The grant supported the project as it provided strategies and support to assist mainstream writing faculty with integrating technology into their classroom. Epiphany provided materials and workshops for over 40 institutions across the United States.
The EServer Tech Comm Library
http://tc.eserver.org/
Eserver is an online publishing outlet serving a variety of audiences and authors who decide that mainline publishing is not the way to go. The TC Library is a portal to many resources in tech comm. Another portal organizes resources in rhetoric.
Maintained by Geoff Sauer at U Washington.