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Information and Guidelines for the Writing Center
Basic information about the UWC, what tutoring consists of, how to make the most of your tutoring session.

 Writing Across Curriculum Guides

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Additional writing resources here
George Mason University Guide
Writing in Colleges of Health and Human Services

Contains information about and materials for writing specific to nursing and health services fields such as, Charting, Concept or Nursing Process Mapping, and Experiential Narrative.

University of Wisconsin
The online writing lab (OWL) WAC at Purdue University
Contains a variety of information and links, including information on responding to second-language writers.

Penn State Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence
Tools for Teaching and Learning  sections provide specific activities for improving syllabi, writing effective and meaningful tests, and incorporating problem-based activities into the classroom.

Virginia Tech Writing Guidelines for Engineering and Science Students
Contains advice, models, and exercises specific to engineering and science assignments including audience assessment, correspondence, and analytical reports

Oregon State University

Disciplinary writing guides developed by OU. From the main page, these are available in HTML, PDF, and DOC formats: Anthropology, Botany, Chemistry, Human Development and Family Sciences, Mathematics, Microbiology, Nuclear Engineering, Philosophy, Political Science, Sociology, Speech Communication, and Writing for Change

E-book Writing for Visual Thinkers:  A Guide for Artists and Designers, authored by Andrea Marks of Oregon State University. PDF format, list price, $19.99.


Additional writing resources
 
Rubistar
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php
Free website with various completed rubrics and place to make your own. 
  • Find rubrics
  • Create rubrics
  • Create rubrics based on topic
  • Make rubrics interactive
  • Customize rubrics
Colorado State Writing Center
http://writing.colostate.edu  || Click “Teaching Resources”
  • Teaching guides (more than 30) on a variety of issues such as planning and conducting classes with technology.
  • Teaching activities such as discussion starters, peer review, and development of arguments
  • Teaching links for resources for writers and teachers of writing, with annotated bibliographies
  • Content on topics such as library resources, search sites, English as a second language (ESL) and  literature,
  • First-year Composition resources, such as their course syllabi, assignments, daily lessons plans for courses at CSU
  • List of teaching guides and a teaching activities resource bank
  • Detailed section on dealing with plagiarism--why it happens, how to prevent it and how to detect it
Case Western Reserve Writing Center
Click on “Writing Pedagogy.” The site includes information on responding to student writing
  • Information on responding to student writing, designing writing assignments, preventing plagiarism
  • Writing Wiki
  • Samples of assignment sheets
University of Wisconsin Writing Center
Click on “Writing Across the Curriculum” and “Integrating Writing into Your Course”
This site includes detailed information on designing writing assignments
  • Ideas on how to teach with writing, such as designing an effective syllabus, developing writing assignments and integrating writing into courses     
  • Suggestions on conferencing with students, responding to and grading student writing, and evaluating courses
  • Recommendations on how to work with multilingual students
University of Hawaii-Manoa Writing Center
http://www.mwp.hawaii.edu/resources.htm
Click on “Teacher Resources.”
  • Effective writing assignments
  • Responding to student writing
  • Writing and research
  • Overcoming writing errors
  • Helping students make connections between ideas
  • Working with ESL students
  • Writing peer review & feedback forms
  • Teaching forms of writing
  • Enhancing on-line interaction
  • Using writing to improve reading
  • Getting students to think 
  • Quick tips for instructors in writing intensive classes
  • Handouts for students
  • Sample syllabi
  • General resources such as videos on writing and 20 FAQ’s about writing
University of Minnesota Writing Center
http://writing.umn.edu/index.htm
Click “Teaching with Writing”
  • Information on course design, writing across the curriculum and writing in the disciplines, checklist for writing intensive writing syllabi, tips on improving oral and written communication in the classroom
  • Material on course feedback and assessment such as when and how to involve students in course feedback and samples of course feedback and assessment
  • Samples of assignments and activities, such as approaches to designing writing assignments, ten tips for effective writing, ideas on informal in-class activities, strategies on teaching writing in a large class and samples of writing assignments and activities
  • Information on responding and grading, such as commenting on student writing, assigning revision memos, creating effective peer response workshops, responding to student writing on line, and responding to non-native speakers
  • Help with grammar and mechanics, including assistance for non-native speakers of English
  • Ideas on preventing plagiarism and sample handouts for students

Online Second Language Writing Interest Group, a part of TESOL.