These links offer the best organized and most comprehensive writing sites on the Internet, with a focus on the interests of instructors and scholars. You will find a wide variety of useful teaching tools and resources that include quick and easy access to online journals, research sources and methods, as well as listservs and online writing labs.
If you're seeking interesting sites for your students, view the Web Resources in the Student Resources area of this Web site.
| Research & Teaching
| Journals
| Discussion Lists
| Professional Organizations |
Research & Teaching:
- The Electronic Text Collective: Teaching and the Lure of the Digital
A collaborative research group that explores how the emergence of electronic textualities (e-mail, listservs, hypertext, MOOs, etc.); changes the ways in which the disciplines of Rhetoric, Composition, and Englishenvision texts, writers, and readers.
- The English Server
This site, which originated at Carnegie-Mellon University's English department, publishes works in the arts and humanities.
- Composition, Rhetoric, and Writing Programs on the Web: A Hyperlinked Compendium
Includes the home pages of Composition, Rhetoric, and Writing Programs and Departments, information on Writing Across the Curriculum programs, and more.
- Rhetoric Links
Prepared by Victor Vitanza at the University of Texas at Arlington, this dynamic site includes links to electronic journals, virtual communities, and conference information.
Journals:
- Composition in Cyberspace
Focuses on the use of MOOs and Internet discussion lists for composition pedagogy.
- Communication Across the Curriculum
Presented by Southern Illinois University Carbondale, this collection of resources includes links to online texts and instructional aids for teaching writing in any discipline.
- Composition and Rhetoric Bibliographic Database
Compiled by Lee Honeycutt at Iowa State University, this database includes more than 7,600 citations from such journals as Composition and Communication, Computers and Composition, Journal of Advanced Composition, Philosophy and Rhetoric, Pre/Text, Rhetoric Review, and Writing Program Administration.
- The Daedalus Group, Inc. Bibliography
An extensive list of sources pertaining to networked writing environments, and the integration of technology into communication education.
- Ohio Center for Critical Thinking Instruction
A teachers' clearinghouse for organizations promoting critical thinking, global education, and conflict management.
- Critical Thinking Community
A Web forum providing resources for educators concerned about teaching critical thinking at the primary, secondary, or college/university level.
- Kairos: A Journal for Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments
A peer-reviewed journal for teachers, researchers, and tutors of writing at the college and university level, including Technical Writing, Business Writing, Professional Communication, Creative Writing, Composition, and Literature.
- JAC Online: A Journal of Composition Theory
Provides on-line abstracts of current JAC articles, as well as the full text of articles from the journal's archives (since 1991).
- PRE/TEXT: Electra(Lite)
This cyberspace metamorphosis of the print journal PRE/TEXT warps and stretches the e-journal genre, experimenting with new media and alternative methods of visual and textual communication in every e-volume.
Discussion Lists:
- Tile.Net/Lists
The premier resource for locating discussion lists on the subject of your choice.
- Communication Studies Listservs
Maintained by the University of Iowa, links to listservs discussing Communication, Journalism, Mass Communication and Media Studies.
- H-RHETOR
A discussion list on the culture and history of rhetoric.
- Literary Academic Discussion Lists
A collection of discussion lists related to English studies.
- THINK-L
A discussion list for critical thinking and related topics.
- WPA-L
A discussion list for Writing Program Administrators and those concerned with writing programs in higher education.
Professional Organizations:
- Computers and Writing
An information portal for "the computers and writing community."
- American Communication Association
- Association for Business Communication
- Association of Teachers of Technical Writing
- Conference on Basic Writing
- Council of Writing Program Administrators
- Modern Language Association
- National Communication Association
- National Council of Teachers of English
- National Endowment for the Humanities
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