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This guide, prepared by Lawrence McEnerney and Joseph M. Williams of the University of Chicago, aims to help students understand what college writing is (or should be). It's easy-to-read tone guides students through the writing process, from understanding what an argument is, to some suggestions about when (and how) to seek out a writing tutor.

By Ros Smith, published by JISC, Sept 6 2010. Announcement and podcast posted on the JISC site. This newly published guide raises questions about the meaning of assessment, and how more effective assessment (ideally taking advantage of current technologies) might also promote the idea of students becoming lifelong learners. There is a 13 minute podcast with Ros Smith, the author. The new guide can be downloaded by chapter, of full guide (as PDF or Word docs). Also, until Oct 31, 2010, printed copies can be ordered for free.

Presented by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, April 2010. This guide, "is the result of a year-long cross-foundation effort to develop common principles, approaches, and taxonomies to help staff decide how best to allocate time and resources for data collection and analysis." Link to the PDF of the full guide from this page.

Presented by the Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University, this guide provides excellent resources to a wide range of cooperative learning publications, from a guide (Students Working in Small Groups) to key articles on the topic. There are two case studies, provided by instructors who have adopted some cooperative learning practices in the classroom.

By Anya Kamenetz in the Education column of GOOD magazine (Online), August 29 2011. The idea behind the Edupunk concept is a DIY approach to education in order to make education truly student-driven, and to make good use of the great variety of resources available on the Internet. To that end, Kamenetz, author of The Edupunk's Guide (a free ebook) offers these ideas regarding online research.

Much as the Edupunk movement fails to value the importance of a good teacher to guide and support the student's learning experience, this post fails to take librarians and libraries into account. That said, there are some great sites and sources on this list, though no mention of how students should evaluate the accuracy, currency, or authority of these sites. What do you think?

Published by CollegeBoard, revised 12/2008. This guide provides practice for the WritePlacer test including information about how the exam is scored.

R.O. (week 5, semester3) used this guide with her students to help them prepare for their retest.

No author or date listed, published on Edudemic. This post promotes a guide to Google+ for educators, written by Steven W. Anderson. I bookmark this post for two reasons. First, obviously, the opportunity for educators to learn more about Google+ and it's potential educational applications. But also the format, LiveBinder, is an interesting way to present and share resources.

Part of Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL), this document helps guide students through the process of developing an outline.

LH used this guide with her students, week 9, semester 4.

This important early (1977) discussion of basic writing made a woke the world up to the concept of teaching basic writing and still provides important insights today. Her work on error analysis is very useful.

By Mina P Shaughnessy. Published by Oxford University Press, 1977. This guide examines student errors in thousands of papers to better understand the nature of writing errors among incoming college students.

Mashable.com is a very popular site for learning more about important social media tools, with information on trends, lists (e.g. 11 Essential Social Media Resources You Might Have Missed), and how-tos, included guides to Twitter and Facebook.

Presented by College Writing Center at Mermec, revised 2006. Student guide to writing effective outlines.

LH used this with her students, week 9, semester 4.

From Bowling Green State University, resources provided by their Center for Teaching and Learning. They use Shelfari to collect and describe their Library Holdings; the Center Archives has an excellent compilation of favorite websites; and the Teaching and Learning Guides are also helpful.

This website for the film offers a downloadable study guide and offers to buy the DVD of the film. The film looks at the rise of the military industrial complex in the U.S.

SB used this film to queue a writing assignment.

By Barbara Fine Clouse; published by McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2010 (6th edition).

DS recommends this book to help developmental English students dispel the myth that they are bad writers and will always be bad writers.

Getting started guide for Adobe Presenter

By Shelia Tobias, New York: College Entrance Examination Board: Distributed to the trade by the MacMillan Pub. Co, 1987

Guide to birding around Phoenix.

Published by the College Board, WritePlacer Guide with Sample Essays, part of the ACCUPLACER (R) program.

By the Conference on College Composition (CCCC) Committee on Assessment, November 2006 (revised March 2009). This document outlines the CCCC's position on writing assessment, noting that "given the high stakes nature of many of these assessment purposes, it is crucial that assessment practices by guided by sound principles..."

By Garry Boulard in Community College Times, published May 4 2010. The article looks at the finding that, the more times a student takes a specific developmental math course, the less likely he or she is to pass it. Quotes Paul Nolting, learning specialist, enrollment services advisor, and author of Winning at Math: Your Guide to Learning Mathematics Through Successful Study Skills.

GSCC faculty member Michelle Zollars is quoted.