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Writing Research Essays in North American Academic Institutions
Written by theological librarian William Badke, this page offers guidance on research, writing, and how to avoid plagiarism.
http://www.acts.twu.ca/lbr/research_essays.htm
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Writing the Religion Paper
An essay for students on the web page of Dartmouth’s Writing Program.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/materials/student/humanities/religion.shtml
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Materials for Students
An extensive series of essays on related topics describing for students how to write effective academic papers in college.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/materials/student/toc.shtml
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Materials for Faculty
A series of related essays providing an overview of writing pedagogy and methods, along with specific examples of how to teach writing.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/materials/faculty/toc.shtml
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Developing Critical Thinking Through Writing
Eficient discussion of what critical thinking is, and how it can be developed through writing assignments.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/materials/faculty/pedagogies/thinking.shtml
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Writing Basics
Aimed at students at Louisville Seminary, but thus helpful for their teachers as well.
http://www.lpts.edu/Academic_Resources/ASC/Writing_Basics.asp
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The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing
Extensive site on writing across the curriculum, derived from a text available for sale. Most helpful in outlining the different kinds of writing students can do.
http://nutsandbolts.washcoll.edu/
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How to Evaluate the Information Sources You Find
For students, a concise review of how to evaluate the authority, usefulness, and reliability of the information found through the process of library research. Including: books, periodical articles, multimedia titles, or Web pages – whether looking at a citation, a physical item in hand, or an electronic version on a computer. Links to lengthier discussions.
http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/research/evaluate.html
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Evaluating Sources of Information
Purdue University site helping students evaluate bibliographic citations, content in a source, as well as internet sources. Links to further resources.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_evalsource.html
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Critical Evaluation Of Resources
A concise and not too abbreviated set of guidelines from UC Berkeley to help students to asses the many types of resources they’ll encounter through research, and evaluate a source’s authority and appropriateness for their research.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Evaluation.html
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Assignment Evaluation Criteria
Extensive rubric for grading student papers. Clear, brief, concise, and helpful. By Richard Ascough, religion faculty member.
http://post.queensu.ca/~rsa/evaltion.htm
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Creating Grading Rubrics for Writing Assignments
University of Minnesota’s Center for Writing offers this brief essay outlining a process
http://writing.umn.edu/tww/responding_grading/creating_rubrics.htm
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Teaching with Writing: Peer Response Workshops for Grading Essays
Set of guidelines and examples for running a variety of peer workshops, from University of Minnesota’s Center for Writing
http://writing.umn.edu/tww/index.htm
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Soliciting Student Feedback
A set of editable forms that instructors may use to collect student feedback in their writing courses.
http://writing.umn.edu/tww/feedback/feedback_index.html
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Preventing Plagiarism
University of Minnesota’s Writing Center provides this index with definitions, advice, handouts, and resources.
http://writing.umn.edu/tww/plagiarism/index.htm
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Responding to Student Response Papers
A short list of suggestions and guidelines from the Bok Center at Harvard University.
http://bokcenter.fas.harvard.edu/docs/TFTresponsepapers.html
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Defining and Avoiding Plagiarism (pdf)
A statement on best practices from the council of Writing Program Administrators, covering such issues as: what is plagiarism? why does it occur? what are our shared responsibilities? Provides a concise list of best practices to make plagiarism difficult and unnecessary.
http://www.ilstu.edu/~ddhesse/wpa/positions/WPAplagiarism.pdf
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Avoiding Plagiarism
Includes helpful links for students on “safe practices” to avoid plagiarism.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_plagiar.html
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The Owl at Purdue
An extensive set of short articles to help students learn to write.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/
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Improving Essay Tests (pdf)
Discusses the strengths and weaknesses of essay tests, and recommends best practices. Idea Paper no. 17, from the series developed by the Center for Faculty Evaluation and Development, Kansas State University.
http://www.theideacenter.org/sites/default/files/Idea_Paper_17.pdf
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Improving Student Writing (pdf)
Strategies for teaching writing across the curriculum. Idea Paper no. 25, from the series developed by the Center for Faculty Evaluation and Development, Kansas State University.
http://www.idea.ksu.edu/papers/Idea_Paper_25.pdf
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Essay Test Construction (pdf)
One page of bulleted pointers for creating effective essay tests, and a concise articulation of how to tell students what makes a good essay.
http://tlc.unlv.edu/pdfs/essaytestconstruction.pdf
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