Basic Writing e-Journal

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  1. Composition in Cyberspace: This page focuses on the use of MOOs and Internet discussion lists in English Composition teaching
  2. Online Writing Centers and Other Resources (a good list thereof done by RPI)
  3. The Online Syllabus Resource
  4. MLA-Style Citations of Electronic Sources
  5. Carnegie-Mellon University has a good list of more reference works (dictionaries, thesauri, etc.) on the WWW at
  6. 4. Marcia Dickson
  7. LEARNING TO READ/LEARNING TO WRITE
  8. Characteristics of Basic Readers
  9. Seeing text as a conversation between the author and the reader
  10. Privileging personal narrative over expository prose
  11. Calling on a schemata for reading non-fiction text
  12. Looking for quick and formulaic ways to "get the facts" in a text
  13. Missing textual clues
  14. Understanding the difference between the author's ideas and ideas of people who authors reference or attack
  15. Breaking down an argument to its component parts
  16. Failing to identify irony or sarcasm, being extremely literal in their readings
  17. Not applying what they read to similar situations or problems
  18. Diagnosing Basic Readers:
  19. Fairbanks (Alaska) ESL Grammar Notes
  20. English Grammar on the Web
  21. WritingDEN
  22. The "It's" vs. "Its" page
  23. Gender-Free Pronoun FAQ
  24. Common Errors in English
  25. Spelling Rules for Nouns and Verbs
  26. English Works! (Gallaudet University)
  27. The Digital Education Network
  28. Bowling Green University Writing Center
  29. NASA's Handbook for Technical Writers and Editors
  30. Guide to Grammar and Writing
  31. Bemidji State University Writing Resource Center
  32. The Writing Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  33. ABCheckers: Superteach
  34. Hypergrammar (University of Ottawa)
  35. Grammar Girl!
  36. American and Other Englishes
  37. Dr. Ed Vavra's KISS Approach to Sentence Structure
  38. Useful Stuff on the World Wide Web
  39. ACW Connections. The newsletter of the Alliance for Computers and Writing
  40. CCC Online: the web version of the journal formerly known as College Composition and Communicatio
  41. Chreods: an electronic journal dedicated to exploratory writing about education
  42. Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine: an excellent resource for ideas about computer-mediated communication
  43. OUTCOMES ASSESSMENT AND BASIC WRITING: WHAT, WHY, AND HOW?
  44. Assessing Basic Writing Programs:
  45. A Very Quick E-Primer
  46. What's the purpose of the assessment?
  47. Who are the stakeholders?
  48. What materials do you already have in place that can help you?
  49. How soon do you need the result?
  50. What resources are available?