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Anti-racist Resources and Information
Student Writing Resources and Information
Learning Resources and Information
Teaching Resources
Professional Associations and Resources
Professional Standards
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Links
These links are a beginning set of web resources to assist students,
faculty, and staff in locating certain types of information related
to writing, reading, learning, and anti-racist work. Categories
are subjective and intuitive--please browse through the whole list
to see if there is something of interest to you. If you know of
a web site that you think should be here, please email
the center.
Anti-racist Resources and Information
- ColorQ World
A non-Eurocentric world view, for promoting self-examination and
cross-cultural understanding among people of color.
- Conexion Afrolatina
The Afrolatino Connetion site aimed at increasing conciousness
in Black Latina Americans.
- Crosspoint
Excellent! Links to sites promoting anti-racism, human
rights, refugees, women's rights, anti-fascism, shoah, etc. .
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- Interracial Voice
An independent, information-oriented, networking newsjournal,
serving the mixed-race/interracial community in cyberspace.
- The Multiracial Activist
An activist journal covering civil rights issues of interest to
biracial/multiracial individuals, interracial couples/families
and transracial adoptees.
- The People's Institute
for Survival and Beyond
The People's Institute provides training in Undoing Racism; their
analysis of racism is very powerful. The site is under construction.
- Perspectives on Race
Relations in the U.S.
Site provides background to begin a meaningful exploration of
race relations, and their impact on the American experience.
- Policy.Com
- Race in America
- Affirmative action, police racism, race and crime...
- Prejudice
and Discrimination
- Links to Treatments for this Problem.
- Race and
Racism
Dedicated to the examination of race and racism through essays,
articles, prose, poetry and photography from both fictional and
nonfictional sources.
- Race
Relation's Background Reports
- PBS's Online Newshour concerning issues of race.
- Race Traitor
"The white race is a historically constructed social formation...
The key to solving the social problems of our age is to abolish
the white race, which means no more and no less than abolishing
the privileges of the white skin."
- Racial
Legacies
Explore issues of race and diversity on college campuses. Access
the results of a national poll, read and review books on diversity.
See how institutions are handling these issues and share your
own thoughts.
- Racism and Race in
American Law
- Considers the intersectionality between racism / race and American
Law; the role of the law in promoting / alleviating racism.
- The
Role of Testing
- A National Report Card on Discrimination in America, the Urban
Institute
- Skin Deep
- Explore the complexities of race relations and the changing
racial make up of American society. Includes a discussion guide
for communities and educators, and an online discussion.
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Student Writing Resources and Information
- Writing Personal Statements
- This web resource comes from the MAX Center. It gives guidance
on Planning,
Drafting,
Revising
and Editing
personal statements for applications (graduate school, fellowships,
etc.). There is an outline-form index
to guide you to specific details of the full
version.
- Online MLA
Style Guide
- This is a comprehensive online guide to the MLA research handbook,
including how to do citation and works cited. Prepared by the
Humanities Department and the Arthur C. Banks, Jr., Library, Capital
Community College, Hartford, Connecticut.
- How
to Avoid Plagiarism
- This page from Purdue's
OWL. (Online Writing Lab) has good information about when
to cite information and other ways to avoid plagiarism. Highly
recomended.
- The Composition
Center at Dartmouth College
- This web site has resources for students,
faculty,
and tutors.
It looks excellent, although some parts were still under construction
when visited in October, 1999.
- University
of Kansas Writer's Roost Online Writing Resources
- This is an excellent page of links to all sorts of valuable
help online. Check it out!
- Macalester
College DeWitt Wallace Library Evaluating Web Resources Page
The Macalester Library staff has put together a very useful guide
for students on evaluating web resources. I highly recommend that
faculty and students who use web resources review this page and
its links.
- Jana
Edwards' Evaluating Web Resources Page
- This is another good guide for evaluating web resources.
- Bruce
Leland's "Research on the Web."
- This page has links to many valuable resources, not only on
evaluating web resources, but also on citation, research, etc.
- The
Columbia Guide to Online Style
- Good for how to cite and also why to cite online sources.
- Tidewater
Community College Writing Guidelines
The links on this site are very useful, including links to MLA
format
and citation
guidelines. Links to guides for annotated
bibliographies, persuasive
(or argument) essays, and lab
reports are also among many valuable resources from this site.
- Tidewater
Community College Grammar Assistance
Not quite as useful for Macalester students as the writing guidelines
from this site, still some students might find the material here
a good review of some grammar basics. Mostly arranged by grammatical
term (e.g., adjective,
verbals,
verb
tenses), rather than by typical student writing error (e.g.,
sentence fragment, subject verb agreement), so students will need
to know their grammar to begin with in order to find the help
they might be seeking.
- History Guide
- This site provides lots of information about history, about
what it's like to be an academic, and about the study of history.
There is a specific link for students to a study guide that discusses
both why and how to study history. For high school students AND
college undergraduates. This site was highlighted in the September
28, 1999, Chronicle of Higher Education Online.
- Reading,
Writing, Researching for History: A Guide for College Students
- I found this site by following a link from the previously listed
site (History Guide).
It appears to have comprehensive guidelines and suggestions of
use to students taking history courses. More sophisticated writers
might take exception to some of the simplistic and formulaic
advice. For instance, on the "Three parts of a history paper"
page, the minimum number of sentences for a paragraph (four or
occasionally three), or the insistence that the first sentence
of every paragraph must be the topic sentence both ignore widely
accepted variations and exceptions that excellent writers use.
Nevertheless, writers unsure of their footing in this field will
not go wrong by following those recommendations before
experimenting with variations--and many of the other pages are
quite excellent in their advice, even for sophisticated writers.
Therefore, this site would make an excellent stop for any student
doing course work or majoring in history. (Note: my own topic
sentence is the one you just read, at the end of the paragraph,
if you don't count this meta-commentary.)
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Learning Resources and Information
- Ask Able
This is a UW-Stout web site where anyone can ask questions about
disabilities.
- The National Center for Learning
Disabilities
This web page has valuable information, links, and resources for
students, staff, faculty, or parents interested in learning disabilities.
The promotional materials for the site mention: 1.) "Nationwide
listing of schools, summer programs, assessment and treatment
centers, and parent support groups that serve individuals with
learning disabilities (LD) and their families." 2.) "Information
about LD issues including legal rights, warning signs of learning
disabilities, and tips for parents and teachers." And, 3.)
"Ways you can get involved and advocate for change in policy
descisions that affect the millions of children and adults with
LD."
- Jan
Norton's List of Learning Center Sites (listed by country and
by state)
- Learning
Disabilities Information & Resources
- University
of St. Thomas' Study Guides and Strategies (multiple languages)
- Temple
University's Links to Learning Sites
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Teaching Resources
- Plagiarism and its prevention
- Writing
- General Teaching Resources
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- Macalester
College DeWitt Wallace Library Evaluating Web Resources Page
The Macalester Library staff has put together a very useful guide
for students on evaluating web resources. I highly recommend that
faculty and students who use web resources review this page and
its links.
Plagiarism and its prevention
- Bruce
Leland's "Plagiarism and the Web."
This site provides both discussion and links to other sites. Useful
for faculty with concerns about this very real issue. Cited in
Johnson, Carolyn and Connie Ury,"Preventing Internet Plagiarism."
The National Teaching & Learning Forum, 8:5, 1999,
pp. 5-6.
- List
of readings
This is a list of references on the subject of plagiarism and
the internet. It is attributed to Judy Feller in Johnson and Ury.
- Robert
Harris' "Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Use in Assigning
Research Papers.
- Professor Harris has provided 6 simple strategies to help prevent
plagiarism (on or off the internet). Also cited in Johnson and
Ury.
- Lisa
Hinchcliffe's "Cut-and-Paste Plagiarism: Preventing, Detecting,
and Tracking Online Plagiarism
- Another Johnson and Ury citation. This site has brief glosses
on plagiarism and strategies for preverntion, plus links and citations.
It also has some suggestions for detecting plagiarism after the
fact.
- Manoa
Writing Program's "Preventing Plagiarism."
- This site provides some of the same sorts of guidelines as the
others, but organizes them according to student writing process,
instructor's assignment design, and supplemental requirements.
This is another Johnson and Ury citation.
- The Plagiarsim
Resource Center at the University of Virginia
- This web site has free software (Windows and "Expert,"
no Macintosh) for comparing papers (need electronic versions of
the papers) and a survey of personal experience with plagiarism.
Most valuable, however, may be its list of links
to other sites. Cited in Young, Jeffrey R. "The Cat-and-Mouse
Game of Plagiarism Detection: Colleges provide professors with
new online tools to give them the upper hand." The Chronicle
of Higher Education, July 6, 2001 (accessed online at http://chronicle.com/free/v47/i43/43a02601.htm).
- Turnitin.com
- This is a commercial site that sells a service to check electronically
submitted papers for plagiarism. Offers a free trial, individual
memberships ($25) and institutional memberships (beginning at
around $1750). Cited in Young, Jeffrey R. "The Cat-and-Mouse
Game of Plagiarism Detection: Colleges provide professors with
new online tools to give them the upper hand." The Chronicle
of Higher Education, July 6, 2001 (accessed online at http://chronicle.com/free/v47/i43/43a02601.htm).
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Writing
- The Composition
Center at Dartmouth College
- This web site has resources for students,
faculty,
and tutors.
It looks excellent, although some parts were still under construction
when visited in October, 1999.
- Internet
Research Workshop
- Online, in association with the Computers and Writing 1998 Conference.
This "workshop" is designed for interested or concerned
faculty. Still up as of September, 1999.
- 14th
Computers and Writing Conference (1998) links page
- There are a lot of valuable links here to online resources for
writing, writing education, and technology (especially the web).
- Seven
Principles of Undergraduate Program Implementation (Writing Across
the Curriculum)
- This page lists seven easy-to-implement principles for providing
good WAC teaching. Each principle has detailed lists of actions
derived from several sources, organized by source. It looks like
a simple primer for doing WAC well.
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General Teaching Resources
- Links to
Teaching Improvement Resources
Temple University's
Links toTeaching and Technology Web Sites
U
of Oregon's Educational Technology Links
Internet Resources for
Institutional Research
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Professional Associations and Resources
- National
College Learning Center Association
- College Reading Association
College Reading and Learning Association
- National Tutoring Association
National Association for
Developmental Education
Society for Teaching
and Learning in Higher Education
Learning
Support Centers in Higher Education
Learning
Support Centers in Higher Education's Professional Associations
Links
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Professional Standards
Center
for Academic Standards' Learning Assistance Program Standards and
Guidelines
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