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Helpful Online Resources for WIC Instructors and Their Students

RESOURCE CATEGORIES
Comprehensive Web Sites
Assessment Criteria and Rubrics for Writing and Thinking
Devising Effective Writing Assignments
ESL Student Resources
Grammar and Spelling
Oral Communication Skills
Peer Review Guidelines
Research Paper Resources
Writing to Think/Writing to Learn

Comprehensive Web Sites

http://wic.oregonstate.edu
Oregon State's WIC Web site. Program information, newsletter archive, and teaching/writing resources for instructors and students, including a new link to discipline-specific "Grammar Errors and Solutions."

http://writing.umn.edu/sws/quicktips/online_resources.htm
The University of Minnesota Online Writing Center's "Online Resource" page. Internet resources for instructors and staff address writing-intensive course development; teaching strategies; sample syllabi and assignments; and a bibliography of research. Online resources for students address the writing process; business, technical, and scientific writing; grammar and style; special topics; and samples of student writing.

http://www.ag.iastate.edu/aginfo
Iowa State University's homepage to the College of Agriculture's Communication Tips for Letter Writing, Public Speaking and Speech Writing.

http://http://www.cte.ku.edu/teachingInnovations/
Center for Teaching Excellence with with links to many writing-related topics including KU Course Portfolios, Ways to Engage Students, Ways to Use Technology, Scholarly Teaching Made Public, KU Initiatives on Teaching, and Scholarship of Teaching & Learning. Created by the University of Kansas Writing Consulting Center and maintained by the University's Center for Teaching Excellence.

http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/writersref6e/Player/Pages/Main.aspx
Student companion web site for Diana Hacker's A Writer's Reference, Fifth Edition (Bedford St. Martins. Includes links to online writing exercises, research exercises, grammar exercises, and research and documentation guidelines. Also links to Looking at Yourself as a Writer; problems and solutions related to writer's block, developing thesis statements, using passive voice, etc. Requires free registration and log-in).

Assessment Criteria and Rubrics for Writing and Thinking

http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/cii/resources/writing/writing_rubric.asp
Western Washington University's "Discipline-Based Writing Rubric."

http://www.lehman.edu/provost/library/LibraryInstructionFaculty.htm
Contains links to four writing assessment rubrics.

http://wsuctproject.ctlt.wsu.edu/ctr.htm
Washington State University's Critical Thinking Rubric, a "seven-dimension critical thinking rubric [developed] to provide a process for improving and a means for measuring students' higher order thinking skills during the course of their college careers." Useful for evaluating content of both formal papers and informal writing assignments.

http://writing.umn.edu/index.htm
University of Minnesota’s Center for Writing’s homepage which provide links to Student Writing Support offers all University of Minnesota students free, individualized writing instruction, both face-to-face and online; Teaching with Writing supports faculty, instructional staff, and teaching assistants as they integrate writing into their courses; Interdisciplinary Studies of Writing sponsors research into literacy through grants and publications and promotes discussion throughout the University community on the study and teaching of writing; The Minor in Literacy and Rhetorical Studies provides graduate students with a flexible, interdisciplinary minor and The Minnesota Writing Project, a site of the National Writing Project, supports pre-K–College teachers throughout the state.

Devising Effective Writing Assignments

http://web.mit.edu/writing/Faculty/createeffective.html#sequencing
"Creating effective writing assignments"—includes approaches to sequencing assignments. MIT site.

http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/cii/resources/writing/writing_assignment_guidelines.asp
Western Washington University's "Writing Assignment Guidelines."

ESL Student Resources

http://wac.gmu.edu/supporting/teaching_esl.phpl
George Mason University WAC Web site's "ESL Resources" page.

http://a4esl.org/
Links to over 1,000 quizzes, exercises and puzzles to help develop English writing and language skills. Project of The Internet TESL Journal. Fun resource!

Grammar and Spelling

http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/
Website developed by Paul Brians, Dept. of English, WSU, clarifies hundreds of common word misspellings (consensus, embarrass, etc.), confusions (affect/effect, allude/elude, compliment/complement, immanent/imminent/eminent, principal/principle, etc.), redundancies ("point in time," "please RSVP," "PIN number," and other usage errors ("tongue and cheek," "second of all," "beyond the pail") in American English. Both entertaining and helpful; a good resource to point students to.

Oral Communication Skills

http://www.onr.navy.mil/about/speaking_tips/
"Tips for Preparing and Delivering Scientific Talks and Using Visual Aids" - an excellent resource on public speaking, developed by The Oceanographic Society for the U.S. Office of Naval Research. Contrary to the title's assertion, these tips are NOT limited to scientific presentations.

Peer Review Guidelines

http://www.physics.oregonstate.edu/portfolioswiki/doku.php?id=whitepapers:writing:drewthesis:start&rev=1213124292
This undergraduate Physics thesis describes the use of Calibrated Peer Review of written responses to assigned questions.

http://writing.umn.edu/tww/responding_grading/peer_workshop.html
University of Minnesota's Center for Writing Webpage. This site "Teaching with Writing" includes a comprehensive guide for "Creating Effective Peer Review Workshops."

http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/technotes/workshops/peerview.htm
Bedford St. Martins "Strategies for Teaching with Online Tools" peer review page.

Research Paper Resources

http://ica.library.oregonstate.edu/Course_Assignment_Page/761
This page on the OSU Library site provides links to many sources students might use, especially in developing argument papers.

http://www.bedfordresearcher.com/index.cfm
;Welcome to The Bedford Researcher Web site, an interactive part of the The Bedford Researcher integrated system for teaching research writing in the electronic age. Use this site to manage all aspects of your research project using the Research Log-a structured electronic portfolio with built-in advice-below. The site also includes interactive tutorials, research activities, checklists, student writing samples, and links to other online research resources."

http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/
Diana Hacker's (A Writer's Reference, fifth ed., Bedford St. Martins) suggestions for locating and documenting sources for research papers in the humanities, social sciences, history, and sciences (MLA, APA, Chicago, and CBE styles, respectively). Sample research papers showing proper documentation.

http://www.aresearchguide.com/
"The goal of this Web site is to provide all the necessary tools for students to conduct research and to present their findings."

Writing To Think/Writing To Learn

http://wac.colostate.edu/intro/pop2d.cfm
Colorado State WAC Program's "What Is Writing To Learn?" page, with links to classroom and computer-based WTL activities, WTL evaluation strategies, print resource bibliography, other WTL Internet sites, and more.

http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/cii/resources/writing/writing_as_thinking.asp
Western Washington University site: Strategies for "Using Writing as Thinking: Question->Hypothesis->Question."

http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/cii/resources/writing/writing_to_learn.asp
http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/cii/resources/writing/using_writing_to_learn.asp
Western Washington University writing-to-learn sites. WTL strategies and activities.

This resource list was compiled by Tracy Ann Robinson, OSU WIC Program, October 2003. This is a list-in-progress. I welcome feedback and recommendations for additional links. Please email your comments/suggestions to WIC Web Ms.@oregonstate.edu