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Some Online Resources for Teaching Writing

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Some Online Resources for Teaching Writing 

 

Position Statements on Teaching Writing

 

Scholarship, summaries and bibliographies

 

Major Resources/Portals for Teaching Writing

 

Organizations, Journals, Listservs & Blogs on Teaching Writing

 

 

Teaching Writing - Concepts and Activities 

 

Preparing to Teach & Surviving the First Few Classes 

 

Elbow's "Writing for Learning": key classroom writing activities

  • Peter Elbow, "Writing for Learning," article published by The National Teaching and Learning Forum. Describes a set of low stakes writing activities that can be used in class, along with guidelines for teaching writing.

 

Prewriting & Planning Practices

  

Composing Strategies & Reflective Writing

  

Responding, Grading, Conferencing 

 

Peer Review

 

Intro to Rhetoric, Rhetorical Situation, etc.

 

 

Argument, Claims, Evidence, etc 

  

Prereading, Critical/Rhetorical Reading, Charting & Analysis

FROM THE WRITING SPACES PROJECT Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volumes 1 and 2, is a peer-reviewed open textbook series for the writing classroom.  http://writingspaces.org/essays and http://writingspaces.org/volume2 Many of the chapters fit our pedagogy well, and can help you prepare to teach RWS100. I've found the following useful:

 

 

 

Synthesizing (mapping relationships - extend, complicate, etc) 

 

Quotations, Citing Sources & Style Guides (MLA, APA, etc.)

 

Analysing Texts, Strategies & Moves  

 

Ethos, Pathos, Logos

 

ESL Teaching Resources & Info 

 

Style & Sentence-level work

 

Teaching grammar in context

 

Plagiarism - Defining, avoiding and managing it 

  • Defining and Avoiding Plagiarism: The WPA Statement on Best Practices
  • Rebecca Howard Moore has done really smart work on plagiarism. Here is a list of articles she has written, many of which concern plagiarism. http://wrt-howard.syr.edu/articles.html. You can also see the bibliographic collection on plagiarism she has assembed, http://wrt-howard.syr.edu/Bibs/PlagDefs.html, and http://wrt-howard.syr.edu/bibs.html.
  • Sandra Jamieson and Rebecca Howard Moore's Citation project "The Citation Project is a multi-institution research project responding to educators’ concerns about plagiarism and the teaching of writing.  Although much has been written on this topic and many have expressed concerns, little empirical data is available to describe what students are actually doing with their sources. At present, therefore, educators must make policy decisions and pedagogy based on anecdote, personal observation, media reports, and the claims of corporations that sell “solutions.”...Preventing plagiarism is a desired outcome of our research, as the subtitle above indicates, but the Citation Project research suggests that students’ knowing how to understand and synthesize complex, lengthy sources is essential to effective plagiarism prevention. If instructors know how shallowly students are engaging with their research source—and that is what the Citation Project research reveals—then they know what responsible pedagogy needs to address."

 

 

 

Sample Papers in MLA Style

https://style.mla.org/sample-papers/

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