Group items tagged

This resource was created by undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty at the University of Michigan's Sweetland Center for Writing. Using video of undergraduates reflecting on their writing and revision process, this resource helps writers to explore more effective revision. Some resources for faculty are also provided.

discussing how to incorporate library instruction into the research process

Launched in March 2013, the National Census of Writing seeks to provide a data-based landscape of writing instruction at two- and four-year public and not-for-profit institutions of higher education in the United States. Despite numerous calls for empirical data to ground the design and administration of writing programs and writing centers, this is the first comprehensive study of its kind and covers the following sections:  * Sites of writing * First-year writing/English composition * Identifying and supporting diversely-prepared students * Writing across the curriculum (WAC) and writing beyond the first year * The undergraduate and graduate writing major and minor * Writing centers * Administrative structures * Demographics of respondents

"Launched in March 2013, the National Census of Writing seeks to provide a data-based landscape of writing instruction at two- and four-year public and not-for-profit institutions of higher education in the United States. Despite numerous calls for empirical data to ground the design and administration of writing programs and writing centers, this is the first comprehensive study of its kind and covers the following sections: Sites of writing First-year writing/English composition Identifying and supporting diversely-prepared students Writing across the curriculum (WAC) and writing beyond the first year The undergraduate and graduate writing major and minor Writing centers Administrative structures Demographics of respondents With data from 900 institutions, the National Census of Writing will help educators and administrators across the country to better understand the variety of ways in which writing instruction is delivered in the twenty-first century. The research team has made the processed data available through this open-access database, which allows individuals to gather national data on pressing local questions. The database is searchable by type of institution, institutional size, geographical location, and, when we have consent, by the name of the institution."

WriteCast: A Casual Conversation for Serious Writers. 10-minute episodes on writing process and concerns such as thesis, audience, paragraphs.

WriteCast: A Casual Conversation for Serious Writers is a monthly podcast on academic writing produced by the Walden University Writing Center.

Gabrielle Seeley University of Colorado at Colorado Springs From Praxis: "A writing center consultant explores strategies for empowering students writers. When I began training to work in the Writing Center at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (UCCS), I perceived it to be an inherently feminist learning space."

Lots of fun animated videos on writing process, citation, and style.

crowdsourcing a list of pre-writing activities and handouts

a discussion on how to train tutors who have been previously taught that essays don't require thesis statements

In this video, writing center consultants at Indiana University Southeast explain how the Writing Center operates and how it can benefit all students.

Produced by Vassar College, this video emphasizes a common writing problem: repetition, and encourages students who struggle with repetition to visit the university's Writing Center.

A series of instructional videos from the University of Evansville.

"We are the Undergraduate Writing Center at Texas A&M University-Kingsville! We assist undergraduate writers at all stages of the writing process, from getting started to editing and proofreading. Our Culture of Writing blog is a space for Writing Consultants, the UWC Director, and occasional guest authors to blog about writing and the writing center life at TAMUK."

Texas A&M--Kingsville Writing Center's blog, "Culture of Writing"