WAC - WRITING ACROSS THE CURRICULUM
[ Home | What is COWL? | Who is COWL? | Why use COWL? |
Writing Resources]
[ Submitting an Essay |
Traditional Writing Center | Tutor Site | WAC
]
"Writing is so complex an activity, so closely tied to a person's
intellectual development, that it must be nurtured and practiced over all the years of a
student's schooling and in every curricular area."
-Barbara Walvoord, Helping Students Write Well: A Guide for Teachers in All
Disciplines
Bluefield College concurs with Dr. Walvoord both in
philosophy and practice. Thus, we are active participants in the Writing
Across the Curriculum movement.
WAC at BC
WAC Program and Philosophy at
Bluefield College
Incorporating Writing in your Classroom
Designing
Effective Writing Assignments - a guide from the University of Maryland
University College
Assignment
Design Tools - web resources for designing writing assignments from the
University of Maryland University
College
WAC Resources
- information about designing assignments, writing activities, responding to
writing assignments and other resources
COWL
Mooving Writing Into the Classroom
Assignment
Feedback Service - Need help creating a writing assignment that enhances
student learning?
Want help writing effective essay test
questions? Need to beef up your online discussion prompts?
Submit your assignment to
mpellillo@bluefield.edu for feedback
from a colleague.
Research Resources
Bluefield
College Library
Evaluating Web Resources
"The Psychosocial
Parameters of Internet Addiction" - A fake website created by professors at the
University of Albany to teach students
how to evaluate web resources. For more information on this fake web site,
click
here
Criteria For Evaluating Internet Sites:
Albany's Criteria List
Thinking
Critically and Evaluating Web Sites - this site contains extensive
evaluation criteria for web sites
Evaluating
Web Sites - a quick list of web site evaluation criteria
Citation Style Guides
American Chemical Society
APA
(American Psychological Association)
APA
Official Site of the American Psychological Association style- the style most often used in education and
psychology
APA Style Guide
from Purdue Online Writing Lab
APA
In-Text Citations Guide from the University of Wisconsin
MLA (Modern Language Association):
MLA
- a guide to citing electronic sources at the official MLA site
Purdue
MLA Guidelines
Bedford
St. Martins MLA Citation Guide
Turabian
(Chicago Style) - the style most often used in history and music
Plagiarism - tips and resources for preventing plagiarism in
your class
Plagiarism.org
Superior
Term Papers
Genius
Papers
Cyber
Essays
Academic
Term Papers
Critical
Thinking Activities
35
Dimensions of Critical Thought - a guide to thinking critically, independently, and
objectively
Logic Games and
Brain-Teasers - games plus links to important documents for discussion in history,
philosophy, political science, literature, and sociology
Making Decisions - exercises
that ask students to use critical thinking skills by reading short stories and making
decisions
To Mission: Critical -
looks at parts of an argument, analysis of arguments, fallacies and non-rational
persuasion
General Resources for Writing in all Disciplines
Beau, John C. Engaging Ideas: The Professor’s
Guide to Integrating Writing,
Thinking, and Active Learning in the
Classroom. San Francisco: Jossey-
Fulwiler, Toby. The Journal Book. Boynton/Cook,
1987.
Leist, Susan R.M. A Guidebook for Using Writing to Teach Across the
Curriculum.
Needham Heights, MA: Simon and Schuster,
1997.
Walvoord, Fassler E. Barbara. Helping students write
well: The Guide for teachers in All
Disciplines. New York: The Modern
Language Association of America, 1986.