General Information
- Calendar of Events
- Syllabus Information
- Programmatic Assessment
- LANG 110: LANG 120 Support Lab
- Ramsey Library & IL resources
- Media Design Lab resources
- The Key Center & Service-Learning Resources
- What We Say When We Talk About Writing: Seeking Common Ground Across The Curriculum, data about writing across the curriculum at UNCA
Classroom & Planning Resources
- Assignment Prompts & Classroom Activities
- Readings
- Handouts & Guides
- Print Resources (textbooks, teaching suggestions, etc.), available in Karpen 223 | spreadsheet
- Supporting Multilingual Students
- Antiracism & Engaging in Critical Conversations in the Writing Classroom
- AI Resources
Open-Access Texts for Writing Classes
Bad Ideas about Writing Open-access anthology of brief essays that take on common misunderstandings about writing, published by West Virginia University Libraries.
Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing Open-access series of peer-reviewed essays for first-year students, by writing scholars, about a host of topics pertinent to first-year writers and FYW classes. Five volumes so far, published by Parlor Press (2010, 2011, 2020, 2022, 2023).
You Can’t Write That: 8 Myths about Correct English Open-access book by linguist & writing scholar Laura Aull, published by Cambridge University Press (2023).
Rethinking Your Writing: Rhetoric for Reflective Writers Open-access text for FYW classes, including 70+ exercises, all designed for exploring writing across a variety of situations, genres, and disciplines. “Foregrounds the inquiry and decision-making processes that help writers succeed in today’s writing task—and transfer that learning to the next one.” Published by WAC Clearinghouse and the University Press of Colorado (2024).
Additional OER textbooks curated by the WAC Clearinghouse.
Other Writing Studies Resources
Carolinas Writing Program Administrators Regional affiliate of the Council of Writing Program Administrators; regularly holds a fall retreat/conference at Wildacres (Little Switzerland, NC) and a one-day spring “Meeting in the Middle” conference at UNC Charlotte.
Digital Writing Technologies in Higher Education: Theory, Research, and Practice Open-access collection of articles about the history, theory, and practical applications of several digital writing technologies (Springer Cham, 2023).
Journals in Writing Studies An annotated list of Writing Studies journals. Our library offers online access to several of these. One link correction: you’ll find Across the Disciplines: A Journal of Language, Learning, and Academic Writing at http://wac.colostate.edu/atd/.
Naming What We Know: Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies A combination of brief discussions of thirty-seven threshold concepts, plus longer applications of these concepts to learning outcomes, assessment, professional development, and writing pedagogy in and beyond the first-year (Utah State University Press, 2015).
Silva Rhetoricae An online guide to and glossary for rhetoric in the Western (classical & Renaissance) tradition, with discussions of the three appeals, the five canons, rhetorical pedagogy, a host of Greek and Latin terms, and more.
TextGenEd: Teaching with Text-Generating Technologies Peer-reviewed, open-access collection of 34 undergraduate-level assignments to support students’ AI literacy, rhetorical and ethical engagements, creative exploration, and professional writing with text gen technology (WAC Repository, 2023).
WAC Clearinghouse Publisher of open-access books, journals, and other resources, including the WAC Repository.
Writing across Contexts: Transfer, Composition, and Sites of Writing An argument for and guide to “Teaching for Transfer” in composition classes (Utah State University Press, 2014).