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Links for Faculty

General

Jack Lynch’s A-Z Guide to Grammar and Usage
Purdue University Online Writing Lab
The WAC Clearinghouse (Supporting scholarly exchange about communication across the disciplines)
Open access textbooks

Plagiarism

Defining and Avoiding Plagiarism: The WPA Statement on Best Practices. Council of Writing Program Administrators.
Preventing Academic Dishonesty and Designing Assignments. VAIL, UMUC.
Designing Assignments to Discourage Plagiarism. Alice Robison. UW-Madison.
Making Plagiarism-Proof Assignments. Writing@CSU.

Evaluating Writing

College-Level Writing Rubric. Melanie Booth. St. Mary’s College.
Writing Rubric. Skidmore College, adapted from Barbara Walvoord.
Writing Assessment: A Position Statement. Joint NCTE and CCCC, best practices for writing program assessment.
Richard Haswell’s Minimal Marking. Virginia Tech Department of English.
Minimal Marking Beyond Haswell. Illinois Wesleyan University.

Best Practices/Teaching of Writing

NCTE Beliefs about the Teaching of Writing. National Council of Teachers of English.
Teaching Writing as a Process. Dartmouth Institute for Writing and Rhetoric.
Initial report of the CCCC Committee for Best Practice in Online Writing Instruction (OWI). Conference on College Composition and Communication.

Writing across the curriculum (WAC) and writing in the disciplines (WID)

The WAC Clearinghouse. Scholarly exchange about communication across the disciplines.
Young, Richard. 2011. List of 155 ways to include brief writing assignments in classes. From Toward A Taxonomy of “Small” Genres and Writing Techniques for Writing Across the Curriculum. Practice & Pedagogy. Fort Collins, Colorado: The WAC Clearinghouse.
Writing Across the Curriculum Handouts. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Center for Writing Studies. Handouts on writing to learn, assigning writing, and responding to writing.
Writing Across the Curriculum. George Mason University.
Writing Across the Curriculum at MIT. Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
WID Writing Handbook Project. George Washington University. Disciplines represented include literature, economics, news writing, political science, philosophy, microbiology, and psychology.