Resource Library
On this page you will find links to some selected sites, journals and books that are important and useful guides or provide significant information on matters related to writing and writing instruction. Title in italics below indicate books available online. All links will open in a new window.
Writing Organizations and Position Statements
- Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC)
- CCCC Position Statements
- Writing Assessment: A Position Statement (CCCC)
- National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
- NCTE's Position Statements on Key Issues
- NCTE Beliefs about the Teaching of Writing
- NCTE Guideline on Some Questions and Answers about Grammar
- Writing Now: A Policy Research Brief produced by the National Council of Teachers of English
- Council of Writing Program Administrators (WPA)
- WPA Outcomes Statement for First-Year Composition (and Introduction)
- WPA Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing
- Defining and Avoiding Plagiarism: The WPA Statement on Best Practices
Important Writing Websites
- Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
- Dartmouth Institute for Writing and Rhetoric
- The WAC [Writing Across the Curriculum] Clearinghouse
- Writing Matters: Bibliography of Writing Articles
- The Citation Project
- Federal Plain Language Guidelines, March 2011: Table of Contents
- Open CRS Congressional Research Service Reports for the People
- CompPile
- The Forest of Rhetoric
- Learning Information Literacy Across the Curriculum (LILAC) Group
Online Books on Writing
- Open-Access Books on the WAC Clearinghouse
- What is “College-Level” Writing?
- Designing Writing Assignments
- Alternatives to Grading Student Writing
- Rehearsing New Roles: How College Students Develop as Writers
- Revision: History, Theory, and Practice
- Teaching Writing Across the Curriculum
- Reference Guide to Writing Across the Curriculum
- The Informed Writer: Using Sources in the Disciplines
- Roots in the Sawdust: Writing to Learn Across the Disciplines
- How Writing Shapes Thinking: A Study of Teaching and Learning
- Shaping Written Knowledge The Genre and Activity of the Experimental Article in Science
- Genre: An Introduction to History, Theory, Research, and Pedagogy
- Genre in a Changing World
- Toward A Taxonomy of "Small" Genres and Writing Techniques for Writing Across the Curriculum
- Grammar Alive! A Guide for Teachers
- Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 1
- Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 2
- Writing in Knowledge Societies
- Copy(write): Intellectual Property in the Writing Classroom
Writing Journals
- Journals in Rhetoric and Composition
- Free-access Online Journals Connected with Writing Studies
- WAC and Writing Journals
- Journal of Writing Assessment
- TEXT: Journal of Writing and Writing Courses
Articles Related to Writing Instruction
- “Rhetorical Reading Strategies and the Construction of Meaning” (College Composition and Communication - JSTOR)
- “Helping Students Use Textual Sources Persuasively” (College English - JSTOR)
- “Writing Assignments Across the Curriculum: A National Study of College Writing” (College Composition and Communication)
- “Writing from Sources, Writing from Sentences” (Writing & Pedagogy)
- Organic Writing Assessment (Introductory chapter)
- “Working Backwards: How Departmental Faculty Can Re-think Curriculum to Accelerate Students’ Growth as Disciplinary Writers and Thinkers” (John Bean)
- “Does Writing Matter? Assessing the Impact of Daily Essay Quizzes in Enhancing Student Learning” (Language and Learning Across the Disciplines)
- “Braddock Revisited: The Frequency and Placement of Topic Sentences in Academic Writing” (The Reading Matrix)
- “Writing Across the Curriculum Can Work” (The NEA Higher Education Journal)
- “Shaking Up the Lecture” (Inside Higher Ed)
- “Why the 'Research Paper' Isn't Working” (Inside Higher Ed)
- “Skimming the Surface” (Inside Higher Ed)
- “The Phenomenology of Error” (College Composition and Communication - also JSTOR)
- “Composition 1.01: How Email Can Change the Way Professors Teach” (The Atlantic)
- “On Students Who Are Full of It” (Chronicle of Higher Education)
- “What Defines a Meme?” (Smithsonian)
- Cut and Paste Reportage: The Rise of “Whatever Journalism” (text2cloud)
- “Robots are Grading Your Papers!” (Chronicle of Higher Education)
- “Talking With Your Fingers” (New York Times)
- “The Dead Grandmother/Exam Syndrome” (Annals of Improbable Research)
