Key readings
Note: You may be asked to log in with your WatIAM id to access these readings. From the UWaterloo LEARN reader, you can download the articles by clicking on the arrow beside the article title and clicking Download.
David Bartholomae, Inventing the University
Nancy Sommers, Responding to Student Writing
Web resources
A number of other web resources exist to help instructors improve student writing:
The University of Waterloo Writing and Communication Centre
The Writing Centre offers one-on-one consultations, tutorials, and drop-in sessions for students.
Purdue University’s Online Writing Lab (OWL)
Purdue’s OWL contains a wealth of online resources about writing, covering a variety of topics from basic grammar and usage to research and citation practices to writing for specific purposes. Use the resource yourself or refer your students to the appropriate pages.
UWaterloo Centre for Teaching Excellence (CTE)
The CTE's teaching tips pages include many on teaching writing.
Canadian resources and tools on all aspects of English and French. It includes a terminology and linguistic data bank; writing tools that deal with grammar, punctuation, typography, translation and vocabulary; language-related quizzes, articles and headlines; as well as thousands of hyperlinks to Canadian language resources.
An open-education site for college-level writers that covers information literacy, research methods and methodologies, writing processes, collaboration, genres, new media, and style.