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This is a site for tutors to publish in modes and genres of their choosing. We are interested in multiliteracies and multimodal texts, but we are also interested in short-stories, poems, and essays. This link is to the new Tutors page.

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."

Excellent site to search for data on a number of topics such as student success rate, graduation, etc. You can start with a college name or topic and have the data sorted in numerous ways

This purpose of this web site is to maintain an online archive of the proceedings of the Two-Year College Association of the National Council of Teachers of English (TYCA/NCTE). Contact TYCA Archivist Clint Gardner for more information.

This site is designed to help new attendees at the Computers and Writing Conference feel welcome. You will find materials for first-time attendees and for mentors. It has Facebook groups and pages, plus mail  discussion lists.

Carnegis Mellon's Global Communication Center's resources site Includes resources on structuring reports, thesis and topic sentences, Powerpoints, cover letters, lit review, note taking, citation styles, visual design, videos, etc., etc.

"The WAC Clearinghouse provides access to the following books and books series. To date, more than 50 books are available on this site and additional books are in production. All books are available for free viewing and/or download. To view books, click on book covers, books series titles, or links in the new releases list."

The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material, and we provide these as a free service of the Writing Lab at Purdue. Students, members of the community, and users worldwide will find information to assist with many writing projects. Teachers and trainers may use this material for in-class and out-of-class instruction.  This is a very widely used site for open access materials on writing. Includes materials on research and citation, teacher and tutor resources, subject-specific writing, job search writing, ESL, MLA and APA guides, etc. 

Article in NCTE's Forum by Nicole Caswell, Jackie Grutsch McKinney, and Rebecca Jackson, "A Glimpse into the Working Lives of New Writing Center Directors." pp. A3-7. This issue of Forum focuses on "Issues about Part-Time and Contingent Faculty." Vol. 18.1 (Fall 2014). Access on the NCTE site is limited to NCTE members, but readers may have access through institutional libraries with databases of online publications. Article focuses on who does the work of directing and what work do new directors perform.

MLA Style Citation sheet, for MLA 8th edition, prepared by the Writing Center at Brigham Young U.

MLA handout to explain how to format a paper in MLA, 8th edition.

A variety of writing resources, both print and video links, provided by Keuka College's Accelerated Studies for Adults (ASAP) program.

see also: http://lyris.ttu.edu/read/messages?id=16317123 see also: http://lyris.ttu.edu/read/messages?id=24549395

"Legible" a blog from Legalwriting.net. Advice for lawyers and those writing legal documents, includes advice for writing e-mail memos, list of sources for legal writing

"College readiness has several dimensions, but of particular import is readiness to produce scholarly work that meets the expectations of college instructors. Differences from high school and college are well documented in the literature, and this study adds to that body of work by delineating the characteristics of first-year college assignments through a qualitative analysis of college faculty assignment instructions. Three themes emerge from the analysis: information literacy, especially initiating inquiry; academic writing, especially citing evidence in support of a thesis; learner dispositions, especially curiosity, open-mindedness, self-reliance, and perseverance. Findings have implications for high school library programs and high school teachers as well as librarians working with first-year college students."

"This is a site for discussion about writing sponsored by the Writing Center and the Writing Across the Curriculum program at Eastern Illinois University."

Eastern Illinois University Writing Center's blog, "EIU Writes"

EIUWrites - The Eastern Illinois University Writing Center blog

"The Citation Project is a multi-institution research project responding to educators' concerns about plagiarism and the teaching of writing. Although much has been written on this topic and many have expressed concerns, little empirical data is available to describe what students are actually doing with their sources. At present, therefore, educators must make policy decisions and pedagogy based on anecdote, personal observation, media reports, and the claims of corporations that sell "solutions." The Citation Project begins the process of providing descriptive data. Our research team systematically studies randomly selected, source-based student papers from a range of different institutions. Our purpose is to describe how student writers use the sources they cite in their papers. With this information, educators will be able to make informed decisions about best practices for formulating plagiarism policies and for teaching rhetorically effective and ethically responsible methods of writing from sources. Preventing plagiarism is a desired outcome of our research, as the subtitle above indicates, but the Citation Project research suggests that students' knowing how to understand and synthesize complex, lengthy sources is essential to effective plagiarism prevention. If instructors know how shallowly students are engaging with their research source-and that is what the Citation Project research reveals-then they know what responsible pedagogy needs to address."

The second issue of tutors includes fiction, poetry, memes, and an Instagram page about tutoring and tutors.