Metasites for Writing Program/Composition and Cultural Rhetoric |
Gateway sites:
- CompFAQs. "CompFAQs is a Wiki site, an extension of CompPile, meant to be a space for collaborating on answers to questions we pose regularly as writing teachers and as administrators of writing programs." Includes overviews, bibliographies, comments by teachers, and links to resources on such topics as international composition studies, emotion and composition, regression, and writing majors.
- International Writing Centers Association. This site provides resources for writers, teachers of writing, directors of writing centers, and writing consultants/tutors; news from writing centers from around the world; and conference information.
- M. Deanya Lattimore: Composition & Cultural Rhetoric. Maintained by M. Deanya Lattimore, Ph.D candidate in Composition & Cultural Rhetoric at Syracuse University. This entertaining, easy-to-navigate site provides a wide range of resources for scholars and practitioners of composition and cultural rhetoric. Especially valuable for conference information and links to e-journals. Information on SU's Writing Program curriculum and projects.
- rhetcomp.com. Maintained by Matthew A. Levy, Ph.D candidate in English (Rhetoric track) at University of Texas at Arlington. Portals to sites relevant to advanced study in rhetoric and composition. Includes calls for papers, bibliographies, professional organizations, listservs, links to pages for online and print journals, links to composition programs at various universities, and more.
- Rhetoric and Composition Variety of resources useful to rhetoricians: e.g., bibliographies, journals, organizations, etc.
- Rhetoric page at Kettering University. Maintained by Mark Gellis, Professor of Communication at Kettering University. Provides links to a wide variety of resources for students and faculty in rhetoric and composition. Gillis also maintains Second Rhetoric Page at Kettering University. Among other resources, the Second Page includes links to writing programs nationwide.
Writing Programs and Centers:
- Online Writing Lab, Purdue University OWL offfers online materials, links, and services designed to help writers, writing teachers, and undergraduate researchers. Oldest and most comprehensive website of its kind, OWL provides links to other similar sites at colleges and universities nationwide.
- Writing Center at Colorado State University Exceedingly well-organized and attractive site. "Resources for Writers & Teachers" include online dictionaries and glossaries, online textbooks (e.g., "Writing Process," "Reading Process," "Working with Sources"), resources on plagiarism, links to other writing centers, ESL links, etc.
Bibliographical References:
- CompPile Provides bibliographic references to scholarship in post-secondary composition and rhetoric from 1939 to the present. Includes journal articles, review essays, books, and essays in collections.
