Teaching communications, Daniel W. Koon, St. Lawrence Univ.

Teaching communications, Daniel W. Koon, St. Lawrence Univ. Resources for the teacher new to teaching writing and oral communications

GENERAL RESOURCES
THE FIRST YEAR: GENERAL RESOURCES AND SLU's FYP:

National Surveys of First-Year Curricular and Co-Curricular Practices (Policy Center on the First Year of College)
SLU First Year Program: Faculty resources: Philosophy and goals (Residential component, Communications skills component)
Syllabi: FYP: Fall 2002, FYS: Spring 2003

PRINT RESOURCES: (Books for either students or teachers)

Carl Koch and James M. Brazil, Strategies for Teaching the Composition Process (ODY Library) (1978) -- Dozens of exercises for the various stages of the writing process.
Quentin L. Gehle and Duncan J. Rollo, The Writing Process (1977: ODY Library): Lots of useful exercises. Appendices follow an essay and a (short) term paper through the process of writing and revision.
Booth, Colomb, and Williams, The Craft of Research, U. of Chicago, 1995, 294pp. Aimed as a guide for the writer. Could be used as a textbook in a course on writing the term paper.

THEMATIC CATEGORIES: THE RESEARCH PAPER

THE ONE-PARAGRAPH ESSAY
- Writing the one-paragraph essay (steps): Valencia Community College, Florida
- Example: Taft College, California, "Essay Boilerplate example": Pearson Adult Learning Center, British Columbia, Canada
TOPIC
- CHOOSING A TOPIC Massey (NZ)
- REFINING THE TOPIC / CHOOSING A THESIS QUESTION/STATEMENT UCLA, Kansas, UMass, Drew, UWisc, Florida Intl.
RESEARCH
- RESEARCHING THE TOPIC
- EVALUTING SOURCES Recommended Evaluation Sites -- a site with links to resources on evaluating sources
  - EXERCISES: UCLA # 1, UCLA #2, Oregon St., Humboldt St., Bowling Green St.
- TAKING NOTES
- DOCUMENTING MATERIAL
- FOOTNOTING
- AVOIDING PLAGIARISM UCDavis, Purdue, Indiana, Hamilton, Northwestern, Rio Salado, Oregon St., Loyola
  - EXERCISES: With solutions: StonyBrook , Without solutions: Illinois-Chicago , Howard Payne, Guelph, The Plagiarism Book (some cute examples and paraphrasing exercises)
  - EXERCISE FOR TEACHERS (catching the scofflaws): Loyola, "Ten Tips" (Las Cruces Public Schools)
  - "INTERNET PAPER MILLS": Coastal Carolina -- an exhaustive list
ASSEMBLING THE PAPER
- COMPILING A BIBLIOGRAPHY
- STYLES: MLA, etc.
- ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY U Wisc, Cornell, U Minnesota, Purdue Owl (e.g. Handout), St. Cloud St., Claremont
- PRECIS
- FUNCTIONAL OUTLINE
STRUCTURE
- INTRODUCTION
- CONCLUSION
- MIDDLE PARAGRAPHS
- TOPIC SENTENCES
- TRANSITIONS

RESOURCES ARRANGED BY SOURCE (ONLINE STUFF, mostly)
GUIDE TO ONLINE SUPPLEMENTS TO PUBLISHERS' WRITING HANDBOOKS
Joel English (Old Dominion Univ.), Writing Handbook Companion Web Sites and Software -- a 22 page comparison of different sites associated with the Handbooks published by various publishers. Written June 20, 2001: some links expired, some characterizations may be dated. Even if you are not in the shopping for one of these sites, it provides a pretty useful list of which handbooks are out there.

The New Century Handbook -- esp. Web Sources and Resources, Instructor Resources, , Writing in the disciplines
The Little, Brown Handbook -- Student resources, Instructor resources (Class activities)
The Scott, Foresman Handbook for Writers -- Includes model research projects (4 example papers traced through their stages of development), research guide
Simon & Schuster Handbook for Writers
A Writer's Reference (Hacker) -- litttle connection between book and site
Keys for Writers -- litttle connection between book and site
The New St. Martin's Handbook, Everyday Writer, and Easy Writer -- includes "Excercise Central", Student writing e.g.s (essays, Powerpoint, etc.), instructor resources (registration required). See also Model document gallery
The Holt Handbook
The Harbrace College Handbook -- near clone of Holt

GUIDE TO SUPPLEMENTAL SOFTWARE TO PUBLISHERS' WRITING HANDBOOKS

Writing guide software for St. Martin's Guide to Writing
Cognitive tutor for writers -- Link expired. Pity.
Writers' workbench -- Overquantitative analysis of texts. Have any colleges or universities actually adopted it? -- Link also expired.

ONLINE WRITING CENTERS:

The Munn Center at SLU: Online handouts: Developing an Outline, Logical fallacies, Using Writing mentors, Plagiarism, Research paper outline, Research steps and strategies
International Writing Centers Association
- Writing centers online -- a list of about 300 campuses with online writing centers -- See also Exemplary sites for Jo Koster's (Winthrop U.) take on which sites excel.
  - Purdue OWL: Resources for teachers, Handouts & exercises: research skills (scroll down)
  - Writing Center at U. Wisconsin Madison: "Writer's Handbook" (Handouts and more)
  - U. of Richmond Writing Center: Materials for faculty -- not a lot, but some very good ideas for some specific assignments: Peer group checklist, Annotated bibliographies, Web site analysis, Journaling. Students' ideas of best, worst assignments
  - U. of Victoria's Hypertext Writer's Guide: Table of Contents -- Want to use an online Writing Handbook? Appears to be pretty exhaustive. Other sites
  - U. of Kansas: stuff for faculty: Assignment design, Incorporating writing into syllabus, Course strategies
  - RPI online handouts -- Not terribly useful.
- Resources for writers
- Tutor stories
- Electronic discussion groups
- Electronic and print journals
- Writing center resources
Virginia Tech English Graduate Teaching Assistant Website: "The objective of this website is to provide practical course structures, ideas, lessons, tips, and information to help you teach Freshman Composition (1105/1106) here at Virginia Tech."
LEO: St. Cloud St.: a link to several dozen handouts on various writing issues.
Peterson Education: Writing the research paper

MISCELLANEOUS
OTHER TEXTS USED IN FRESHMAN COMP COURSES (as gleaned from cursory glance at online comp syllabi)

Hodge's Harbrace College Handbook
Practice of Writing (Scholes)
Reading Critically, writing well (Axelrod & Cooper)
Literature: An introduction to reading and writing
Writing, Reading, and Research (Veit)
Discovering Arguments: An introduction to...
Bair Handbook (Fulwiler and Hayakawa)
Patterns for Composition (Kirszner and Mandell)
Prentice Hall Handbook for Writers
Writing with Power (Elbow)

TEACHER IDEAS PAGES:

NCTE Teaching ideas "Practical Teaching Ideas on ESL|Journalism|Literature|Reading|Technology|Writing|Vocabulary"

"INSIDE THE TEACHER'S STUDIO" (Other teachers' ideas):

"From the Initial Search to the Produced Web Page", Ruth Kreuzer's (StLawU) online guide for students for producing an online webpage (Covers much of the same ground as writing a research paper). Ruth has more stuff in her Blackboard account.
Assignments for Sarah Gates' (StLawU) FYS "Growing Up Victorian": Handouts: Descriptions of written/oral assignments, Worksheets for writing papers 1-4, Worksheets for peer review of papers 1-4

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