WIC Links: Online Resources
for Writing in the Disciplines

WAC Clearinghouse, Colorado State Univ., is part of Academic.Writing, the home of Language and Learning Across Disciplines. 
URL:  http://wac.colostate.edu/ 
http://aw.colostate.edu/resource_list.htm 
Includes links to research, conferences, and journals.

Articles on Writing Across the Curriculum
An annotated bibliography of articles and book chapters. 
URL: < http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/cwp/lib/wacgen.html  >

Writing Across the Curriculum and Writing in the Disciplines.  Julia Romberger, 2000.  OWL: Online Writing Lab, Purdue Univ., 1995-2002.  [Last accessed:] 13 Jan. 2003.  Available: < http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/WAC/ >

• Research & Documenting Sources
• Resources for Documenting Sources in the disciplines
• Resources for Documenting Electronic Sources in the disciplines
• Using APA Format [rev. Sept. 2002, Erin Karper]
• Using MLA Format [rev. Dec. 2000, Jennifer Liethen Kunka & Joe Barbato]
• Formatting in Sociology
• OWL Resources for Teachers
• Writing in Nursing
• Writing in the Sciences
  Mirror page: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/WAC/bibpg.html

Writing Across the Curriculum.  Solutions Center, NCTE [National Council of Teachers of English], 1998-2001.  Updated: Nov. 2002.   [Last accessed:] 23 Jan. 2003.
Available: < http://www.ncte.org/solutions/WAC.shtml >
"When teachers of all subject areas regularly use writing in their classrooms, the writing enhances their students' learning of the content. This NCTE Solutions page links you to resources that promote the practice of writing across the curriculum."
Writing to Learn in All Subjects.  SLATE [Support for the Learning And Teaching of English] Starter Sheets.  April 1984.  .pdf document - Adobe Acrobat Reader required. [Last accessed:] 23 Jan. 2003.
Available: < http://www.ncte.org/SLATE/pdfs/writing-to-learn.pdf >

Word Works.  [Online WAC newsletter.]  Writing Center, Boise State Univ. No date. [Last accessed:] 13 Jan. 2003.  Available: < http://www.idbsu.edu/wcenter/issues.htm >

GMU Writing Guides: Guides in the Disciplines.   Writing Across the Curriculum, George Mason Univ.  No date. [Last accessed:] 13 Jan. 2003.  Available: < http://wac.gmu.edu/guides/GMU%20guides.html >
Site features Guides to Writing in:

• Biological Sciences
• History 100: Western Civilization
• Management & Business
• New Century College [learning communities]
• Nursing & Health Science
• Psychology
• Public & International Affairs

Smith, Ray (Director, Campus Writing Program, Indiana Univ.-Bloomington).  "Sequenced Microthemes: A Great Deal of Thinking for Your Students, and Relatively Little Grading for You."  Teaching Resources Center Newsletter 5.3 (Summer/Fall 1994).  Rpt.  The Campus Writing Program, Indiana Univ.-Bloomington.  [Last accessed:] 13 Jan. 2003.  Available: < http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/cwp/assgn/microseq.html >

How Do You Set Up a Writing Assignment?  Northern Illinois Univ., 7 April 1997.  [Last accessed:] 13 Jan. 2003.  Available: < http://www.engl.niu.edu/wac/assprc.html  >

Ideas for Journals.  Northern Illinois Univ.  No date.  [Last accessed:] 13 Jan. 2003.  Available: < http://www.engl.niu.edu/wac/journals.html  >

What Kinds of Writing Assignments?  Northern Illinois Univ., 7 April 1997.  [Last accessed:] 13 Jan. 2003.  Available: < http://www.engl.niu.edu/wac/assknd.html  >

WAC Newsletter:  Highlights from Past Issues.  WAC Staff, 23 Sept. 2002.  Writing Across the Curriculum, Wright State Univ., Dayton, OH.  2002.  [Last accessed:] 13 Jan. 2003.  Available: < http://www.wright.edu/academics/wac/news.htm > 
[Adobe Acrobat Reader required to download articles.]

LALAC: Language and Learning Across the Curriculum.  NCTE: National Council of Teachers of English [LALAC site located at  Stephen F. Austin State Univ., managed by Glenn Blalock & Ed Nagelhout], 1997.  [Last accessed:] 13 Jan. 2003.  Available: < http://www.sfasu.edu/lalac/ > 
Searchable LALAC Bibliography:  readings on using writing in a wide variety of fields, including chemistry, engineering, foreign language, health science, math, geology, social science, political science, & philosophy.

Academic Writing: Quoting and Paraphrasing.  Writer's Handbook. Writing Center, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, 2001. [Last accessed:] 13 Jan. 2003.  Available: < http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/QuotingSources.html > 

Mechanical Engineering Technical Communications. Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia. No date.  [Last accessed:] 13 Jan. 2003.  Available: < http://www.missouri.edu/~mae/students/students.html > 
Stylebook, ver. 1.1.1 - Nov. 2001 [Adobe Acrobat Reader required to view/download].

Teacher Resources: Writing Matters [newsletter for instructors of WI courses].  Manoa Writing Program, Univ. of Hawai'i-Manoa, Honolulu, HI, 1997-2001.  [Last accessed:] 13 Jan. 2003.  Available: <  http://mwp01.mwp.hawaii.edu/resources.htm >
Includes resources like the following - Available in web page (HTML) or easy-print format (PDF):
Writing Matters #1: Designing Effective Writing Assignments  [Last accessed:] 13 Jan. 2003.
Available: < http://mwp01.mwp.hawaii.edu/wm1.htm  >
Writing Matters #8:  Teaching Your Field's Forms of Writing  [Last accessed:] 13 Jan. 2003.
Available: < http://mwp01.mwp.hawaii.edu/wm8.htm  >
Writing Matters #10:  Using Writing to Improve Reading  [Last accessed:] 13 Jan. 2003.
Available: < http://mwp01.mwp.hawaii.edu/wm10.htm  >

Writing Tools.  The Writing Center, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA. President and Fellows of Harvard College, 2002. [Last accessed:] 13 Jan. 2003.  Available: <  http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~wricntr/index.cgi?section=tools >
Includes resources like the following:
How to Do a Close Reading (Patricia Kain, Writing Center at Harvard Univ., 1998)
How to Write a Comparative Analysis (Kerry Walk, Writing Center at Harvard Univ., 1998)
[How to Write Objective & Interpretive] Summary (Elizabeth Abrams, Writing Center at Harvard Univ., 2000)
Overview of the Academic Essay (Kathy Duffin, Writing Center at Harvard Univ., 1998).

WAC Resources.  Writing Across the Curriculum, Univ. of Richmond, VA. [Last accessed:] 13 Jan. 2003.  Available: < http://writing.richmond.edu/wac/resources.html >
Resources for Writers:  http://writing.richmond.edu/wac/studenthelp.html
Annotated links like this one - The UVic Writer's Guide: "This writer's guide is one of the most thorough and well-developed of any on the Web. The site includes help from the most basic problems (sentence structure, paragraphs) to the most complex (literary terms, engaging in critical discussion of a text). Most sections include extensive examples to support each guideline. Designed for the writer engaged in a study of literature, the guide nonetheless provides excellent tips and examples for any writer at any level."
Writer's Web: http://writing.richmond.edu/writing/wweb.html
University of Richmond's on-line writing handbook: "Extensive and well-researched, this site includes all of the main headings and subheadings of any printed writing handbook. The site provides short, printable 'handouts' for student writers, as well as links to other excellent handbooks."

Harvey, Gordon (Expository Writing Program, Harvard Univ.)  Writing with Sources: A Guide for Harvard Students.  The President and Fellows of Harvard University, 1995.  [Last accessed:] 13 Jan. 2003.  Available: < http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~expos/sources/ >

Lodewick, Alyssa E. (Dept. of History, Brown Univ.).  Writing History Papers: "Penning The Past:  Advice on Writing in the Historical Disciplines."  The Writing Center at Brown Univ., 1997-2003. http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute/

John S. Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines.  Cornell Univ., 2002.  [Last accessed:] 13 Jan. 2003.  Available: < http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute/ >
Discoveries: Student Prize-Winning Essays

Faculty Resources.  Composition Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH. Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1997-1999.  [Last accessed:] 13 Jan. 2003.  Available: < http://www.dartmouth.edu/~compose/faculty/index.html >
Archives include Ideas for teaching writing in . . .
Humanities:  Art History | Classics | English | Spanish
Social Science:  Sociology
Science & Math:  Biology | Computer Science | Earth Science | Engineering | Math


MIT Online Writing & Communication Center.  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999.  [Last accessed:] 13 Jan. 2003.  Available: < http://web.mit.edu/writing/ >

 

Writer Resources: Need to Update!! - Under Construction
http://www.cocc.edu/humanities/WIC/WriterResources.htm 

Writing about Literature: Fiction & Film [link to HIR!!]

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