Resources

Blog

Richmond Writing: for all aspects of our writing program! We welcome you as readers...if you would like to write for our blog, contact Daniel Coudriet for more information.

UR Touchdown

A site to assist Richmond staff members improve their on-the-job and academic writing. You may begin exploring UR Touchdown during the summer of 2009.

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 Fellows, 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 tutors and Writing Fellows at Richmond

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 than 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 for the Richmond Times Dispatch about the virtual world Second Life and related 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.