The following are links to Web pages and other online resources especially useful for writing teachers (though writing students are also welcome). For more general Internet and World Wide Web research, check the Online Research Page.

General Education Links

Links to Syllabi and Other College Classroom Materials

Links to Rhetoric and Writing Materials




General Education Links

U.S. Department of Education
http://www.ed.gov/
The homepage for the federal education department has a myriad of links about education at all levels.

The Chronicle of Higher Education
http://chronicle.merit.edu/
Includes a table of contents and summaries of some articles from the weekly newspaper.

American Universities
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/CLAS/american-universities.html
A comprehensive list of four-year college and university homepages.

IAT Infobits
http://www.iat.unc.edu/infobits/infobits.html
An interesting collection of links and summaries about the application of instructional technology (mostly Internet resources) to a wide variety of subjects. Updated monthly.

HotList of K-12 Internet School Sites
http://rrnet.com/~gleason/k12.html
Maintained and updated by Gleason Sackman.

EdWeb Home Page
http://k12.cnidr.org:90/
An excellent site for all educational levels, maintained by Andy Carvin of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.


Links to Syllabi and Other College Classroom Materials

The World Lecture Hall
http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/
An excellent collection of links to online courses across the curriculum.

Writing for the World
http://icarus.uic.edu/~kdorwick/world.html
A growing collection of links to online writing classes maintained by Keith Dorwick of the University of Illinois, Chicago.


Links to Rhetoric and Writing Materials

General links of interest to composition teachers and scholars

The CCCC '97 Online
http://www.missouri.edu/~cccc/97/
Events, presentations and happenings at the March 1997 College Composition and Communication Conference 48th Annual Convention.

Rhetoric and Composition
http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/rhetoric/
This site on the CMU English Server provides links to a wide array of materials available online to scholars and teachers of composition and rhetoric.

A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples
http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/rhetoric.html
Developed and maintained by the classics department of the University of Kentucky, this somewhat specialized site provides definitions and examples of all the major schemes and tropes from classical and medieval rhetoric.

The English Server
http://english-www.hss.cmu.edu/
This site at Carnegie Mellon University is one of the oldest and most complete Web guides to resources of interest to students and scholars of English Studies (composition, culture studies, film and television, literature, etc.).

Voice of the Shuttle
http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/
A Web page devoted to humanities research and maintained by Alan Liu of the University of California-Santa Barbara.

Links about the teaching of writing

Resources for Teachers of Writing
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/cws/wworkshop/ww_wac.html
This site at the University of Illinois has links to a lot of great resources about Writing across the Curriculum pedagogy and scholarship.

Plagiarism and the Web
http://www.wiu.edu/users/mfbhl/wiu/plagiarism.htm
This site was put together by Bruce Leland of Western Illinois University in response to an ACW (Alliance for Computers and Writing) listserv discussion about plagiarism and "paper mill" sites on the Web. Leland provides links to the problematic sites and some excellent advice for preventing Internet plagiarism.

Links specifically about rhetoric and writing with computers

The Alliance for Computers and Writing
http://english.ttu.edu/acw/
This Web page of a national organization concerned with the teaching of writing and rhetoric in computer-mediated environments provides a great list of available rhetoric and writing resources. This is probably the best place on the Internet to find information on composition and rhetoric.

RhetNet
http://www.missouri.edu/~rhetnet/
A unique "cyberjournal," RhetNet aims to combine some of the conventions of print with those of electronic media. The result is an interesting collage of essays, email postings, Web pages, etc.

Computer Mediated Communication Magazine
http://www.december.com/cmc/mag/
As it describes itself, CMC "reports about people, events, technology, public policy, culture, practices, study, and applications related to human communication and interaction in online environments."

Kairos: A Journal for Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments
http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/
This Web-based journal publishes a variety of hypertext essays about the intersections between teaching, writing, rhetoric, and computers.