INSTRUCTOR RESOURCES

[Materials | Pedagogy | Groups & Professional Organizations]

Materials

• The Bedford Handbook On-line Companion
  All first-year students at Cabrini are required to purchase a copy of Diane Hacker's The Bedford Handbook. In addition to the many resources within the book, the on-line version offers additional resources that may help your students.

• Writing Center Handouts
  An index of writing-related handouts available from all over the web compiled by the IWCA

• Cabrini's Guide to Writing Annotated Bibliographies
  A concise set of instructions on what to include and what to avoid in an annotated bibliography. Uses APA style as the documentation guideline.

• Online Writing Labs with Original Documents
  A list of writing centers and the specific handouts they offer visitors.

• Online Handouts: George Mason University Writing Center
  A wealth of on-line documents covering a variety of style, grammar, content concerns, and types of writing.

• Resources for Teaching Writing in Engineering and Science
  Virginia Tech's comprehensive guide to the specific demands of these highly technical writing styles. Includes guides on lab report writing, teaching guides, and evaluation criteria.

• Companion Web site for The Language of Argument, Tenth Edition
  Site offers an extensive Instructors' Resources section that includes a section on student cognitive levels and a detailed breakdown of different types of arguments.

• Resources for Writers of Web Documents
  A collection of links about web authoring.

Pedagogy

• National Teaching and Learning Forum
  Offers a great overview of basic classroom management concerns ranging from evaluation and assignment design to classroom discussions and record-keeping.

• The Center for Critical Thinking
  Offers a variety of essays on fostering critical thinking in your courses.

• Teaching Resources for Writing
  Offers brief overviews of teaching concerns in the writing classroom. Includes discussions of basic writing, types of writings, critical thinking, cultural issues in the writing classroom, and more.

• Devry Online Writing Support Center
  This site offers beginners a useful guide to using the Internet to enhance their writing. Includes extensive links on composition and computing.

Groups and Professional Organizations

• National Council of Teachers of English (NTCE)

• Philadelphia Writing Program Administrators (PWPA)

• Council of Writing Program Administrators (WPA)

• Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC)

• Mid-Atlantic Writing Centers Association (MWCA)

• International Writing Centers Assembly (IWCA)