Professional Development

Writing Center Research Project: For the website, the University of Louisville's WCRP "conducts and supports research on writing center theory and practice and maintains a research repository of historical, empirical, and scholarly materials related to Writing Center Studies."

Tutor.edu: A manual for Writing Center tutors courtesy of Montreat College.

Training for Tough Tutorials: Training videos offering mock tutorials featuring obstacles encountered in tutorials.

Gallaudet University's English Works! Tutoring Techniques: Strategies and advice for novice and experienced Peer Writing Consultants.

Working with ESL Students in the Writing Center: A PDF (a PDF reader, like Adobe Reader, is needed to view) of strategies for working with students who speak English as A Second Language, created by Suzanne Blum-Malley of Columbia College Chicago.

ESL Resources

Dave's ESL Cafe: Comprehensive Site for students and teachers alike, with many posted ideas and activities and a fine social network of forums.

Rong-Chang Li's English as a Second Language Page: A somewhat informal yet very broad site of resources for ESL students and teachers.

English.com ESL Quizzes: Online ESL quizzes.

ESLflow.com: Lesson ideas for ESL instructors.

Learning Disability Resources

LD Online: Comprehensive resource on Learning Disabilities and Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.

LD Resources: An interactive blog community with many links and to LD resources and materials.

Teaching LD: Professional site sponsored by the Division for Learning Disabilities of the Council for Exceptional Children. Links to articles, studies, and other materials concerning LD.

Plagiarism Resources

Sharon Stoerger's Plagiarism Site: Many links to articles, case studies, plagiarism detection tools, and term paper sites.

WCopyfind: A free program (must be downloaded) that will compare two specific documents--say, an essay with a website--for chunks of matching text..

York University's Academic Integrity Tutorial: Offers tips on how students can detect and avoid plagiarism, with helpful case studies.

Online Journals, Organizations, and Communities

International Writing Centers Association: Home page of the IWCA, with links to writing center websites, writing center news, position announcements and helpful writing center resources.

National Conference of Peer Tutoring in Writing: Home page of the annual conference.

East Central Writing Centers Association: Home page of the regional association.

PeerCentered: Blog operated for at by Peer Writing Consultants.

WCenter: Mailing list for Writing Centers tutors and administrators. E-mail Kathleen Gillis to subscribe.

The Writing Center Journal Online: Electronic archive of past issues of the Writing Center Journal.

The Writing Lab Newsletter: Searchable archive of previous WLN issues.

The Dangling Modifier Newsletter: Online newsletter produced for and by peer writing tutors.

Praxis: A Writing Center Journal: Online journal replete with scholarship and whimsy.

Other Writing Centers

The OWL at Purdue: Deservedly ballyhooed Online Writing Lab with many printable handouts and exercises for issues all along one's writing process.

The Writing Center at Renssalaer: More handout fun.

Writing@CSU: Colorado State's "online writing environment."

University of Richmond Writing Center Writer's Web: An online handbook maintained by the URWC.

Columbia College Chicago: The Between the Margins newsletter is of particular interest.

Documents for OSUN Consultants

The Updated Writer's Studio Manual A PDF of policies and procedures that every good OSU Newark Peer Writing Consultant should get to know.

Peer Writing Consultant Schedule Request Form: Make sure to fill out this form and send it as an attachment to Derek before each semester.

Absence Account Digital Version A Word document that needs to be filled out before each absence a Peer Writing Consultant has and must be EMAILED to Derek. This version is digital and should be emailed, not printed out.

Absence Account Printer Friendly Version A Word document that needs to be filled out before each absence a Peer Writing Consultant has and must be HANDED to Derek. This version is printer friendly.