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WRITING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM ISSUES
ELECTRONIC JOURNALS
RESEARCH & TEACHING
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
DISCUSSION LISTS


WRITING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM ISSUES


The National Network of Writing Across the Curriculum Programs
This site offers information about the national program of Writing Across the Curriculum professionals.

Writing Across the Curriculum
Served by George Mason University, this is a resource site discussing all levels of writing across the curriculum.

The English Pages
All users of Longman English texts can visit this site, which supplies resources and materials for books on composition, literature, developmental skills, and technical writing.

Developing a WAC Program
This presentation from Eastern Illinois University gives a brief historical perspective on WAC and sets out some of the fundamental principles underlying its strategies and successes. Included is an extensive bibliography of WAC resources within each discipline.

Resources for Teachers of Writing
This site provides an extensive list of WAC and WID issues along with online tools for writing teachers and annotated bibliographies for WAC.

Student Learning in an Information Age Bibliography
Here you can find an extensive bibliography of student learning issues from the 1999 Association of College and Research Libraries national conference.

Helping ESL Writers Grow
This links to an article originally published in Crosscurrents (Issue No. 3, January 1998), the journal of the Writing Across the Curriculum program at Salem State College. It has been updated for the Internet.

Technology Across the Curriculum
Technology is often portrayed as the enemy of such enduring traditions as the liberal arts. The energy and fast pace of the technological cutting edge seem at odds with leafy images of academic reflection and learning. Visit this site for further discussion on this topic.


ELECTRONIC JOURNALS


The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Chronicle of Higher Education is the academic world's primary source of news and information. Subscribers who register can receive free access to the entire web site, as well as receive regular e-mail news updates.

Compute~Ed: An Electronic Journal of Learning and Teaching with and about Technology
Compute~Ed is a refereed electronic journal that publishes articles, letters and reviews about a broad range of issues in information technology in education, with an emphasis on classroom practice.

Computers and Text
Computers & Texts is the journal/newsletter of the CTI Centre for Textual Studies at Oxford University.

CWRL: The Electronic Journal for Computer Writing, Rhetoric and Literature
CWRL publishes articles that address computer-aided pedagogy in the fields of rhetoric, composition and literature and is available solely on the World Wide Web.

Issues of Teaching and Learning
This is the University of Western Australia's Issues of Teaching and Learning web site.

JAC Online: A Journal of Composition Theory
This site provides online abstracts of current JAC articles, as well as the full text of articles from the journal's archives (since 1991).

Kairos: A Journal for Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments
This link takes you to a peer-reviewed journal for teachers, researchers, and tutors of writing at the college and university level. Topics include technical writing, business writing, professional communication, creative writing, composition, and literature.


RESEARCH & TEACHING


The Electronic Text Collective: Teaching and the Lure of the Digital
A collaborative research group that explores how the emergence of electronic textualities (e-mail, listservs, hypertext, MOOs, and so forth); changes the ways in which the disciplines of rhetoric, composition, and English envision texts, writers, and readers.

The English Server
Based at the University of Washington, this server has become a hub for researchers interested in the intersections of technology, culture, and literacy.

Composition, Rhetoric, and Writing Programs on the Web: A Hyperlinked Compendium
This site includes the home pages of the Composition, Rhetoric, and Writing Programs and Departments, information on Writing Across the Curriculum programs, and more.

Rhetoric Links
Prepared by Victor Vitanza at the University of Texas at Arlington, this dynamic site includes links to electronic journals, virtual communities, and conference information.

Composition in Cyberspace
This site focuses on the use of MOOs and Internet discussion lists for composition pedagogy.

Communication Across the Curriculum
Presented by Southern Illinois University Carbondale, this collection of resources includes links to online texts and instructional aids for teaching writing in any discipline.

Composition and Rhetoric Bibliographic Database
Compiled by Lee Honeycutt at Iowa State University, this database includes more than 7,600 citations from such journals as Composition and Communication, Computers and Composition, Journal of Advanced Composition, Philosophy and Rhetoric, Pre/Text, Rhetoric Review, and Writing Program Administration.

The Daedalus Group, Inc. Bibliography
An extensive list of sources pertaining to networked writing environments, and the integration of technology into communication education, is available on this site.

Ohio Center for Critical Thinking Instruction
This is an online teachers' clearinghouse for organizations promoting critical thinking, global education, and conflict management.

Critical Thinking Community
A Web forum providing resources for educators concerned about the teaching of critical thinking at the primary, secondary, or college/university level is available at this site.


PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS


Alliance for Computers and Writing
 

American Communication Association
 

American Society for the History of Rhetoric
 

Association for Business Communication
 

Association of Teachers of Technical Writing
 

Conference on Basic Writing
 

Council of Writing Program Administrators
 

Modern Language Association
 

National Communication Association
 

National Council for Excellence in Critical Thinking
 

National Council of Teachers of English
 

National Endowment for the Humanities
 

National Writing Centers Association
 


DISCUSSION LISTS


Tile.Net/Lists
This site offers the premier resource for locating discussion lists on the subject of your choice.

Liszt, the mailing list directory
Another resource for locating discipline-specific discussion lists is available at this site.

Communication Studies Listservs
Maintained by the University of Iowa, these links take you to listservs discussing communication, journalism, mass communication and media studies.

CBW-L
This is the link to the Council of Basic Writing's discussion list.

H-RHETOR
A discussion list on the culture and history of rhetoric is available at this site.

Literary Academic Discussion Lists
A collection of discussion lists related to English studies may be found at this site.

National Writing Centers Association Discussion Lists
This link connects you to a collection of discussion lists concerning writing centers and writing center-related issues.

THINK-L
Visit this site for a discussion list for critical thinking and related topics.

WPA-L
A discussion list for Writing Program Administrators and those concerned with writing programs in higher education is available at this site.


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