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Resources & Handouts

Writing Resources & Handouts
  Writing the Paper Citation, Style, & Sentence Concerns Specific Writing Assignments & Context Additional Resources
Resources
 The Guilford Writing Manual by Jeff Jeske MLA Source Documentation How to Fix Bad Business Writing (YouTube link) Grade Descriptions
Writer’s Block MLA Formatting and Style Guide   Links to Online Writing Labs
  APA Formatting and Style Guide   Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary & Thesaurus
  Chicago Manual of Style   The Free Dictionary
  Plagiarism & The Honor Code   ipl2: Internet Public Library and Librarians’ Internet Index
  Grammar Bytes! website    
       
 
Handouts
   Apostrophes & Possessives    
  practice    
       
  Clauses    
  practice    
       
  Comma Splices & Fused Sentences    
  practice    
       
  Commas, Dashes & Parentheses    
  practice    
       
  Coordination & Subordination    
  practice    
       
  Dangling Modifiers    
  practice    
       
  Parallelism    
  practice    
       
  Semicolons    
  practice    
       
  Sentence Fragments    
  practice    
       
  Subject/Verb Agreement    
  practice    

Study Skills Resources
  General Study Skills Organization & Planning Test Taking & Anxiety Additional Resources
Resources
 Understanding Assignments Time Management Writing Anxiety from The Writing Center at UNC Approaches to Foreign Languages
General Study Tips   Studying for Exams  
  Planning & Time Management Tools    
       
 
Handouts
 Reading to Write (UNC Writing Center) Blank Weekly Academic Schedule    
Procrastination FALL 2018 Semester-at-a-Glance Calendar    

 

Resources for Faculty
  "Writing Across the Curriculum" "Writing in the Disciplines" Linguistically Diverse Students Additional Resources
Resources
 The WAC Clearinghouse at Colorado State Across the Disciplines: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Language, Learning, and Academic Writing Teaching Multilingual Students (UNC Writing Center) RhetNet, A Dialogic Publishing (Ad)Venture
The WAC Journal Teaching a Writing-Intensive Course (University of Pittsburgh) Tips for Writing Coaches (UNC Writing Center) National Writing Project
Writing Across the Curriculum @ Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) WID Studio (George Washington University) "Just Check My Grammar" (UNC Writing Center) Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education: A Guide
Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum, 3rd ed. by Art Young (digital book) “What Is Writing in the Disciplines?” (WAC Clearinghouse)   Faculty Resources for Writing (University of Houston)
Integrating Writing into Courses by UW Writes (University of Washington)     The Writing Lab Newsletter (complete archives and links to writing conferences)
Excellent Compilation of WAC Articles (compiled by Indiana University-Bloomington)     “Why We Teach Writing in the First Place” by Toby Fulwiler
      “Creating the Institution-Specific Writing Guide” by Jeff Jeske
      “Academic Literacy in a Wired World: Redefining Genres for College Writing Courses” by Alice L. Trupe
 
Handouts Written Communication Value Rubric