Introduction to WAC
Colorado State's WAC Clearinghouse – This is the site for all things WAC, from creating writing assignments to tips on handling the grading.

Writing Across the Curriculum (Manhattan College) — This site offers includes clear guidelines for designing writing assignments in all disciplines, and an excellent narrative guide for responding to student writing.

Crafting Effective Writing Assignments:
Characteristics of Effective Writing Assignment (University of Maryland University College) – This website provides a step-by-step guide to developing writing assignments as integral parts of your course objectives.

Responding to Student Papers Effectively and Efficiently (University of Toronto) – This site provides several examples of writing assignment sheets and guidance on marking up student writing.

Creative Writing Assignments (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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. 5th ed. Boston: Bedford/ St. Martin’s, 2003. (Available in the Writing Center)

Writing In Disciplines
Writing in Mathematics (Franklin and Marshall College) – This site includes sample writing assignments from Professor Annalisa Crannell’s Calculus I and Calculus III classes, along with assessment rubrics.

Writing Guidelines for Engineering and Science Students (Virginia Tech) – These guidelines contain advice, models and exercises for common writing and speaking assignments in engineering and science.

Beall, Herbert, and John Trimbur. A Short Guide to Writing About Chemistry. New York: Harper Collins, 1996. (Available in the Writing Center)

Higham, Nicholas J.  Handbook of Writing for the Mathematical Sciences. Manchester, England: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 1998. (Available in the Writing Center)

Pearsall, Thomas E.  The Elements of Technical Writing. 2nd Ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2001. (Available in the Writing Center)

Pechenik, Jan A.  A Short Guide to Writing About Biology. 4th Ed. New York: Addison-Wesley, 2001. (Available in the Writing Center)

Porush, David. A Short Guide to Writing About Science.  New York: Harper Collins, 1995.
(Available in the Writing Center)

Zinsser, William. Writing To Learn. New York: Harper and Row, 1988. (Available in the Writing Center)

Avoiding Plagiarism
Defining and Avoiding Plagiarism (Council of Writing Program Administrators) (PDF)

Bedford St. Martin’s Thinking About Plagiarism

Georgetown University Honor Council – This site offers an excellent discussion of the specifics of academic citation.

For further information or assistance in developing writing assignments for your classes, contact Wendy Menefee-Libey, director of Learning Programs, at (909) 607-3626 or menefee@hmc.edu.