Links
The Writing-Across-the-Curriculum Clearinghouse http://wac.colostate.edu/
The WAC Clearinghouse is one of the most useful portals for resources related to research in writing studies, writing pedagogies and WAC/WID programs in higher education. From on-line books and journals to information on conferences, the WAC Clearinghouse, housed at Colorado State University, is the first stop for those seeking an introduction to contemporary views on writing and communication in higher education.
Across the Disciplines http://wac.colostate.edu/atd/
An interdisciplinary journal devoted to the full variety of forms of academic writing in higher education, with special focus issues and a wide representation of disciplines.
Thinking Writing: Queen Mary University of London
http://www.thinkingwriting.qmul.ac.uk/index.htm
Thinking Writing is a WID initiative that provides both theoretical grounding and practical support to instructors at Queen Mary University of London and throughout the UK. On their site you’ll find an introduction to the problematics of writing and writing assessment in higher education, as well as individual case studies of efforts to integrate writing as a learning activity into the undergraduate curriculum.
Learning Through Digital Media: Experiments in Technology and Pedagogy
http://learningthroughdigitalmedia.net/
This site offers a range of essays, articles and links describing innovations in educational uses of new technologies. If you need inspiration, specific ideas about applications or just an introduction to the rapidly changing landscape of educational technology, this is a good place to start.
WID Studio: The George Washington University
http://widstudio.wordpress.com/wid-writing-handbook-project/
The WID program at GWU has several dimensions, including a project to involve faculty in the creation of handbooks for writing in specific disciplines. View guides for Physics, International Affairs, Economics, Literature, Microbiology, Philosophy and more. Also on this site are introductory guides on assignment design, feedback and assessment, plagiarism and other writing related topics.
Harvard Writing Project
https://writingproject.fas.harvard.edu/
The Harvard College Writing Project at Harvard University offers services to both faculty and students. Browse their publications, especially the comprehensive and concise guides for writing in specific disciplines. These guides are created by Harvard faculty funded by the Writing Project, and the range of disciplines covered is continually expanding.
Writing and Humanistic Studies at MIT
https://writing.mit.edu/ https://writing.mit.edu/wac/teachingresources/integrating
Massachusetts Institute of Technology is developing a comprehensive portal on communication in the sciences for both MIT students and instructors. It houses resources for both faculty and students, putting on display MIT’s communication-intensive approach to instruction in the sciences and engineering. They already have a great faculty resource section. Check out the student writing both in Angles, the on-line magazine for undergraduate writing, as well as Scope, a journal devoted to MIT’s graduate program in science writing.
Quantitative Inquiry, Reasoning, and Knowledge (QuIRK) Initiative at Carleton College
http://serc.carleton.edu/quirk/index.html
Funded by a federal US grant for improving instruction in higher education, this research unit based at Carleton College develops, implements and evaluates approaches to quantitative reasoning across the post-secondary curriculum. The site has resources on program design, pedagogy, curricular materials, and assessment, all related to QR.
Also excellent resources for QR are the journal Numeracy: Advancing Education in Quantitative Literacy http://services.bepress.com/numeracy/ and the National Nuneracy Network, also based at Carleton College. http://serc.carleton.edu/nnn/index.html
Developing Oral Communication Skills: Communication Across the Curriculum at UNC Greensboro
http://www.uncg.edu/cac/ http://www.uncg.edu/cac/faculty_resources/activities/index.html
UNC Greensboro’s WAC/CAC program makes some great resources on communication skills available to faculty,including suggestions for facilitating good classroom discussion and presentations, and a range of instructor and peer rubrics for evaluating oral presentations.
Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines – Cornell University
http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute/publicationsprizes/discoveries/discoveries.htm
Cornell’s Knight Institute coordinates the oldest WID program in North America, and one of the features of this site is the electronic archive of Discoveries, a journal that collects the best writing from Cornell’s interdisciplinary First-Year Writing Seminars. If you are looking for model student essays, whatever your field, this is a great place to start.
Thompson Writing Program – Duke University
Similar to Cornell, the WID program at Duke features a journal of interdisciplinary first-year student writing. What makes the on-line archive of “Deliberations” so interesting is that the original assignment prompts, and the writing resource handouts used in the course, and the instructor’s final comments on the work are all available for viewing alongside the student paper.
http://uwp.duke.edu/deliberations/2010
A range of other teaching resources are also available on the same site; see for example this intro to designing effective writing assignments: http://uwp.duke.edu/faculty/wid/assignments
Carnegie Foundation: cfKeep
The Carnegie Foundation on-line houses a huge range of resources for educators, from K-12 and on into higher ed. An example is cfKeep’s Windows on Learning, which provides case studies on up-grading numeracy and literacy skills for basic-level and ESL learners.
http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/ http://www.cfkeep.org/html/stitch.php?s=2814408673732&id=94404660812025
National Council of Teachers of English and the College Conference on Composition and Communication
NCTE and its affiliated organizations such as CCCC form a world-wide community of educators devoted to progressive education for literacy. Here you can find scholarly journals like College English and College Composition and Communication, on-line discussion communities of teachers with common concerns, and position statements that outline best practices for writing instruction and guide policy development.
http://www.ncte.org/college/books
http://www.ncte.org/cccc/resources/positions
OWL at Purdue
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/
The On-line Writing Lab at Purdue is a now well-known resource for teachers and students alike. It has a wide array of sections and sub-sections on composition-related issues: documentation guidelines, resources for discipline-specific types of writing, tips and exercises for all kinds of grammar problems, and more.
