WAC Resources for Faculty

Resources for Designing Your WAC Department Plan

• The WAC Clearinghouse (full-length, open-access books, journal articles, and pedagogical resources for teaching WAC)
• Central Michigan WAC Video Modules (a toolkit for designing WAC assignments, providing feedback to student writers, planning WAC courses, and other resources)
• University of Minnesota Writing Plans (a great place to look for models of writing plans in many disciplines while writing a plan for your department)
• Auburn University WAC ePortfolios (see how faculty across the university help students create ePortfolios of writing that can be used for multiple purposes)

Helpful Classroom Resources for Teaching Writing in any Discipline

• IUP Jones White Writing Center
• Writing as a Learning Activity (a book with chapters on using writing to help students learn in math, history, science, and in general tasks such as reading, collaborating, and synthesizing).
• Purdue OWL (grammar, formatting, and citation help)
• Writing Commons (an open-access, peer-reviewed writing textbook with easily searchable units on issues on which you may want to provide support to your students)
• Writing Spaces (open-access peer-reviewed units for teaching writing)
• Peer Review Video (for instructors)
• Peer Review Video (for students)
• Most Common Issues Found in Student Writing (Stanford)
• Twelve Common Errors - Student Self-Editing Guide (University of Wisconsin Madison)
• Michigan Corpus of Upper-Level Student Writing (download samples of student writing, or look at research about the samples)
• Colorado State Writing Gallery (lots of student samples of writing, including multi-genre project samples)
• Writing@CSU (instructor and student resources, including open-access textbooks, writing guides and activities, and so much more)
• ASU ViTA Project (Arizona State University Writing Programs faculty videos and blog entries that document pedagogical practices of writing teachers)