Resources for Writing Across the Curriculum and

Writing in Disciplines

Introduction to WAC:

http://wac.colostate.edu/intro/ : Colorado State's WAC Clearinghouse. This is the site for all things WAC, from creating writing assignments to tips on handling the grading. It's worth browsing around in.

Crafting Effective Writing Assignments:

http://www.umuc.edu/ugp/ewp/characteristics.html --University of Maryland University College’s Characteristics of Effective Writing Assignment. This website provides a step-by-step guide to developing writing assignments as integral parts of your course objectives, including types of writing and assessment guidelines.

http://mwp01.mwp.hawaii.edu/wm1.htm --University of Hawaii Manoa Writing Program’s extensive website explores, in illustrative detail, writing assignment design, assessment and teaching field-specific forms of writing.

http://www.utoronto.ca/writing/comm.html --University of Toronto’s website gives several examples of writing assignment sheets and guidance on marking up student writing.

http://www.manhattan.edu/services/wac -- Manhattan College’s Writing Across the Curriculum web pages includes some very clearly written guidelines for designing writing assignments in all disciplines, and an excellent narrative guide for responding to student writing.

http://web.mit.edu/writing/Faculty/createeffective.html --MIT’s faculty support website.

John C. Bean. Engaging Ideas: The Professor’s Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical

Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1996.

-Available in the Writing Center.

Hacker, Diana. A Writer’s Reference. 5^th ed. Boston: Bedford/ St. Martin’s, 2003.

-Available in the Writing Center.

Writing In Disciplines:

http://www.fandm.edu/Departments/Mathematics/writing_in_math/writing_index.html -- “A Guide to Writing in Mathematics Classes” by Professor Annalisa Crannell at Franklin and Marshall College. This site includes sample writing assignments for her Calculus I and Calculus III classes, along with assessment rubrics.

http://filebox.vt.edu/eng/mech/writing/handbook --Virginia Tech’s website called, “Resources for Teaching Writing in Engineering and Science,” includes assignment design, a mini-curriculum for teaching writing, and evaluation guidelines.

Beall, Herbert, and John Trimbur. A Short Guide to Writing About Chemistry. New York:

Harper Collins, 1996.