Resources
Blog
Richmond Writing: for all aspects of our writing program. We welcome you as readers and if you would like to write for our blog, contact Joe Essid for more information.
UR Staff Writing Web Site
The Staff Writing Project is a site that helps Richmond staff members improve their on-the-job and academic writing.
Teaching Resources
- "Writing Around Richmond": Published several times a year, this newsletter discusses highlights of our writing program.
- Barista: a wiki for English 103 faculty and others interested in writing. The wiki provides the common syllabus for the class, lesson plans, and other resources that have come from the 103 faculty's "Comp Cafe" meetings
- UVA's Teaching Tips: The Teaching Resource Center has a compendium of good tips for every aspect of classroom instruction
- Richmond's WAC Faculty Binder Online: From working with writing consultants, to Write-to-Learn, to designing formal writing assignments, this resource has pages of information for faculty in many disciplines
- Write-to-Learn Activities: A series of good practices for any classroom. These short, easy-to-employ activities encourage critical-thinking skills and improved writing
- 383 Syllabus: The semester-long class for training all writing consultants at Richmond. The link will take you to our class wiki and student projects
- Training for Tough Tutorials: Our online training tools for ENG 383, featuring digital video
Projects by Program Participants
- The iSearch Project: a site designed by Terry Dolson's ENG 103 class in fall 2004. Some of the essays here were then published in eZines.
- Iggy's Syllabus: more about Joe Essid's Eng. 103 class that uses Second Life®. A wiki for teachers exploring the virtual world.
- "In a Strange Land": Joe Essid's blog about virtual worlds such as Second Life and related technology topics.
- Miranda: An exploratory hypertext of Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World, by Lee Carleton.
- Spirit of the Southern Frontier: A public-access archive of over 100 texts in the public domain. Covers the era of the humorists of the Old Southwest, 1830–1860, by Joe Essid.
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