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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.

a discussion of ethics re: students who are asked to write (and then come to the WC to revise) their own letters of recommendation

from abstract: "in keeping with theory and practice of tutor training in inquiry-based pedagogy, ELL students and peer tutors vacillate between the linguistic dominant position, indicating that participants establish a collaborative and egalitarian environment. However, L1 tutors may experience dissonance because the agenda set by ELL students often focuses on surface features such as grammar and diction rather than on global revisions" (36).

"More and more ESL students are seeking writing help at U.S. college and university writing centers. This trend emphasizes the complementary role of the writing center and ESL writing instruction in improving ESL writing skills. Writing center and ESL writing pedagogy share the process and collaborative approaches, which emphasize the writing process using revision and reader feedback. Often difficult to implement in a classroom setting, these approaches can be used successfully with ESL students in the writing center. However, many writing center instructors, unfamiliar with the needs of ESL students, are often ill-equipped to work successfully with this special population. This has caused writing center faculties to turn to the ESL profession for help in establishing suitable strategies. The growing need for ESL expertise in the writing center has created a variety of capacities to which ESL instructors can contribute."

CCCC's position statement on assessment, revised in November 2014

The University of Louisville Writing Center "Writing FAQs" website, with lists of questions about general writing, before beginning, drafting and revision, editing, citation, plagiarism, frequent questions for graduate students, and other relevant questions, with links to lengthy answers.

a PowerPoint guide tailored to student needs from Carnegie Mellon's Global Communication Center

A guide for developing and using general and discipline-specific academic vocabularies.

archives of the Journal of Writing Research; open access articles available as PDFs

Discusses research findings that writing center users procrastinate less on their writing, and that writing centers can be particularly helpful for student who have a high procrastination tendency.

WriteLab is a web tool that helps students practice their confidence in their writing. The founders are Donald McQuade, a professor of English at UC Berkeley, and Matthew Ramirez, a Phd student at UC Berkeley.