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Resources
- The Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing developed collaboratively by the Council of WPA, NCTE, and the NWP.
- Between the Drafts, a blog by Nancy Sommers, is full of great ideas and resources.
- Eli is a web service that improves writing by helping teachers and students quickly conduct reviews, see and assess feedback, and learn from the revision process.
- Diana Hacker's Research and Documentation is free and contains reference to four documentation systems.
- Rhetoric and Composition Wikibook
- 13 Ways of Responding to Student Writing by Doug Hesse gives some advice about writing comments on student papers.
- Handouts from our own Writers Resource Lab will be great for your students, since they are customized for CSULB.
- Good guide to MLA Documentation from Temple University's Writing Center. It explains many of the reasons behind the rules.
- The APA Style Guide can be found here along with many helpful tutorials.
- Grammar Girl explains grammar rules in a fun way.
- Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford offers many resources for students and instructors.
- The Writing Center at Harvard also has some wonderful resources for students.
- The Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab) is perhaps the most popular site for students to receive help on their essays.
- Writing @ Colorado State features more than 35,000 pages of resources supporting writers and writing teachers.
- Writing Spaces Open Textbook Chapters are published under a Creative Commons Copyright license, so you can download the pdfs and use them in your FYC courses.
- Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing vol 2 is now available.
- An example of a Video Syllabus for a FYC course.
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