The Word for Instructors
Syllabi & Class Schedules | Assignments
Handouts, Readings, & Other Resources | Instructional Theory & Support
Below are links to resources provided by instructors who are teaching developmental reading and writing and/or who are using The Word on College Reading and Writing (found here) either as their primary text or as a supplementary text.
Handouts
- Text Format and Reading Aids
- Additional handouts coming soon ...
Readings & Other Resources
Supplemental Readings
- 6 Common Punctuation Mistakes that Drive Us Crazy, by Shelley Emling
- 18 Habits of Highly Creative People, by Carolyn Gregoire
- Analytical Think, from IQ Doodle
- Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1938
- Close the Book. Recall. Write It Down, by David Glenn
- Copy Edit This! Quiz No. 3, from Times Standards Editor, Philip B. Corbett
- Don't Take Our Failures Personally, by Nicole Matos
- The Electric Typewriter, Great Articles and Essays by the World's Best Journalists and Writers
- Getting Dirty, by Mark Crispin Moller
- The 'Grammar Vigilante': Defender of Truth, Justice, and The Grammarian Way, by Colin Dwyer
- How a Slight Change in Mindset Accelerated My Learning Forever, by Tristan de Montebello
- How to Fly, An Excerpt from Life, the Universe, and Everything, by Douglas Adams
- How to Write: A Year in Advice from 'By Heart,' by Joe Fassler
- How to Write with Style, by Kurt Vonnegut
- It's Just a F**king Little 16th Note. But You Have to Play It, by David Dobbs
- Meet the Prison Bankers Who Profit from the Inmates, by Daniel Wagner
- Pause! We Can Go Back! by Bill McKibben
- A Point of View: Science, Magic, and Madness, by Adam Gopnik
- Reasons for Attending College Affect Students' Academic Success, from ScienceDaily
- Saved, Chapter 11 from the Autobiography of Malcom X
- Shitty First Drafts, by Anne Lamott
- Stop Googling. Let's Talk, by Sherry Turkle
- Why Getting New Things Makes Us Feel So Good: Novelty and the Brain, by Belle Beth Cooper
- Would He Disapprove of My Single Heathen Lifestyle?: Me and My Syrian Refugee Loger, by Helen Pidd and Yasser Al Jassem
- Writing Your Way to Happiness, by Tara Parker-Pope
- The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy, by Howard Zinn
Other Media Resources
- America's Dangerous Obsession with Honor, an Interview with Ryan Brown, Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Oklahoma from PRI's The Takeaway
- The Backwards Brain Bicycle, from SmarterEveryDay
- BS Jobs: How Meaningless Work Wears Us Down, from NPR's Hidden Brain Podcast
- A Decent Breakdown of all Things Real and Fake News, an Infographic, from Imgur
- Let It Ripple Film Studio
- Science Friday
- Story Corps
- This American Life, Archive
- This I Believe Podcast, from NPR
- The Time You Have (in JellyBeans), by zefrank1
- Why It's Literally Not Wrong to Say 'Literally,' from NPR's Hidden Brain Podcast
- Your Elusive Creative Genius, Elizabeth Gilbert at TED2009
Library & Research Resources
- Better Searches, Better Results with Google, by Moises Cardenas
- Citation: A (Very) Brief Introduction, from NCSU Libraries
- Clackamas Community College Library, YouTube Channel
- CRAP Worksheet: Evaluating Information for Academic Research, from Clackamas Community College
- Evaluating Sources for Credibility, from NCSU Libraries
- How to Judge Online Information, from the Goodwill Community Foundation
- Keyword Generator, from Cal State Fullerton
- MLA Formatting and Style Guide, from the Purdue OWL
- Power Googling, from the Clackamas Community College Library
- Understanding the Information Cycle, from Shoreline Community College
- Website Evaluation with the CRAP Test, from Clackamas Community College Library
- Why We Cite, from UNC Chapel Hill