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Center for Reading & Writing
The Center for Reading & Writing offers one-on-one, face-to-face tutoring in writing, reading, and study skills. The Center encourages ALL students to drop in or make an appointment. Well-trained writing consultants guide students through the writing process and help them become independent writers over time. The Center also works to pair peer consultants with Writing-Intensive courses.
For more information, visit the Center for Reading and Writing.
Faculty Resource Center
The FRC is a place dedicated to promoting teaching excellence. To that end, FRC offers extensive faculty workshops, including several writing-related professional development opportunities. FRC helps faculty to share best practices with course-level writing assignments and assessments. FRC also supports faculty who are working on their own writing through writing circles and peer review sessions.
For more information, visit the Faculty Resource Center.
George T. Potter Library
The College Library collaborates with faculty to provide student workshops on informational literacy, including the important writing skills of finding, analyzing, and citing proper sources. The Library also hosts a comprehensive set of materials for faculty to design assignments and assessments, including a Competencies and Progression Rubric. Librarians are also available to consult with faculty on how to best utilize the many tools offered by the Library.
For more information, visit: the Library.
Faculty Writing Institute
The Faculty Writing Institute is a collaboration between WAC, Faculty Resource Center, Center for Reading & Writing, and Potter Library. This day-long, faculty-led institute provides a series of workshops dedicated to sharing best practices on topics including: writing assignments, writing assessments, providing student feedback, texts to support writing, technological tools for writing, and much more.
Download a PDF document about past Faculty Writing Institutes.
The following resources were collected and annotated by the Center for Reading and Writing;
Strategies and Tasks in Developing an Argument and Working Thesis
The Portland State University Online Writing Center provides a comprehensive guided tour to writing papers. Below are steps of the writing process:
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The Online Writing Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill provides thorough, easy-to-understand directions in helping writers develop an argument and thesis statement. Under āWriting the Paper,ā click on āArgumentā and/or āThesis Statementsā when you viewĀ www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/index.html
Colorado State Universityās online writing resources provide an example of a studentās argumentative essay entitled āLandscaping that Makes Sense for the West.ā The āvirtual tourā of the studentās essay begins with an analysis of the studentās claim, reasoning, evidence, and counter-argument. The tour ends with an assessment of the studentās effectiveness in making the argument and urges the reader to arrive at a claim based on the studentās argument. The essay can be used as a demonstration of argumentative writing which in turn provides a greater understanding of thesis paper writing. ³Õ¾±±š·ÉĢż.
Pre-writing Strategies and Tasks
Prewriting tasks are an immediate and effective way to relax, engage, and re-inform the writer about what the writer already knows in order to pursue the writing assignment. Pre-writing strategies serve the following purposes:
The University of Kansas Online Writing Center describes the following prewriting strategies and activities:
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After prewriting, the writer can develop an organizational plan and tentative outline.
The Portland State University Online Writing Center provides suggestions on creating an organizational plan and outline. View .
The University of Kansas Online Writing Center provides directions on basic outlining of a thesis with topic sentences. View .
Troy Universityās Writing Center offers directions on outlining of a thesis, with topic sentences as well as primary and secondary support. ³Õ¾±±š·ÉĢż.
Troy Universityās Writing Center also offers directions on outlining a body paragraph with a topic sentence as well as primary and secondary support. ³Õ¾±±š·ÉĢż.
Drafting Strategies and Tasks
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The Portland State University Online Writing Center provides strategies on writing introductions. View .
Troy Universityās Online Writing Center provides strategies on writing conclusions. ³Õ¾±±š·ÉĢż.
The following skills are necessary in writing a thesis paper:
The University of Kansas Online Writing Center provides basic directions on incorporating references and citing quotes. View .
Portland State Universityās Online Writing Center provides a comprehensive overview on incorporating research and using citations and documentation correctly. ³Õ¾±±š·ÉĢż.
The University of Kansas Online Writing Center provides directions on writing the paraphrase, summary, or prĆ©cis. ³Õ¾±±š·ÉĢż.
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