Writing Across the Curriculum at George Mason University

Teaching with Writing
Teaching guides on designing and responding to assignments, teaching specific writing skills, teaching with technology, and more:

Five Minute Workshops from the University of Missouri-Columbia
http://cwp.missouri.edu/resources/five_minute_workshops_and_teaching_resources/Five_Minute_Workshops/5MinWkshopIntroPage.htm

An Introduction to Writing Across the Curriculum at Colorado State University
http://wac.colostate.edu/intro

Guides for Teachers
http://writing.colostate.edu/teaching_guides.cfm

Writing Guides at Colorado State University
http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/

Helpful Website for Writers and Teachers of Writing
http://wic.orst.edu/wic_teaching_help.html

Browse this Collection of Lesson Plans and Assignments
http://wac.colostate.edu/teaching/index.cfm?category=2

Tips for Incorporating Written and Oral Communication
http://www.english.udel.edu/wc/faculty/tipsheets/integratingCommunication.pdf

Teacher Resources at University of Hawaii
http://mwp01.mwp.hawaii.edu/resources.htm

Teaching with Writing in the Disciplines at the University of Minnesota
http://writing.umn.edu/isw/index.htm

University Writing Program at Virginia Tech
http://www.ceut.vt.edu/about_uwp.html

Good Grammar Sites

Grammar Safari
LinguaCenter's (U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) page with various activities to help you with grammar.
http://www.iei.uiuc.edu/student_grammarsafari.html

Guide to Grammar and Writing
A short page offering good examples of shifts in verb tense and "things we have to remember about pronoun reference," along with links to quizzes and other grammar resources. http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/

Big Dog's Grammar: A bare bones guide to English
This site covers the following grammar points: Subjects, Verbs, Prepositions, Fragments, Comma-splices/Fused sentences, Joiners, Agreement (Subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent), Dangling and Misplaced modifiers, Parallel structures, Reference, Pronouns, Consistency, Active/passive constructions. Interactive exercises allow the reader to see how well s/he has understood each point (except for Joiners).
http://aliscot.com/bigdog

Citation and Documentation Style Guides

APA, MLA and Chicago
Diana Hacker's Online Guide to Research
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/hacker/resdoc

MLA
A Practical Guide to MLA Documentation
http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/mla

APA
A Guide for Writing Papers Using APA Style
http://webster.commnet.edu/apa/apa_index.htm

Help with Citing Web Sources in APA Style
(Web Extension to American Psychological Style)
http://www.beadsland.com/weapas

Chicago
http://library.osu.edu/sites/guides/chicagogd.php
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/hacker/resdoc/history/sample.htm

Columbia Online Style
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html

Nursing
http://healthlinks.washington.edu/hsl/styleguides/nlm.html

Advice on Evaluating Websites

For a useful list of website evaluation resources, see Virginia Montecino's page of "Guidelines for Evaluating Websites" at http://mason.gmu.edu/~montecin/webcritique.htm

Below is a list of helpful websites evaluated by Virginia Montecino (selected from the above website):

Bibliography on Evaluation Internet Resources
Nicole J. Auer, Library Instruction Coordinator, Virginia Tech University Libraries
http://www.lib.vt.edu/help/instruct/evaluate/evalbiblio.html

Evaluating Web Pages: Experience WHY it's important
(an exercise in sleuthing) - Teaching Library Internet Workshops, UC Berkeley
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html

Evaluating Web Sites: Criteria and Tools
Cornell U. Library Reference Services
http://campusgw.library.cornell.edu/t/help/res_strategy/evaluating/evaluate.html

Evaluating Web Resources
Widener University/Wolfgram Memorial Library
http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webevaluation/webeval.htm

Evaluating Information Found on the Internet

Milton's Web - Milton S. Eisenhower Library, Johns Hopkins University
http://www.library.jhu.edu/researchhelp/general/evaluating/index.html