{"id":327,"date":"2019-11-05T11:37:34","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T16:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nm.cms-devl.bu.edu\/tow-test\/?page_id=327"},"modified":"2025-10-03T10:07:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T14:07:03","slug":"further-reading","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/teaching-writing\/research-and-professional-development\/further-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Further Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a class=\"button-primary btn-red\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/teaching-writing\/resources\/diversity-inclusion-and-equity-reading-lists\/\">Diversity, Equity, &amp; Inclusion Reading Lists<\/a><\/center><div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h3 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Online writing centers and general writing guides<\/h3><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Probably the best-known online writing center, <a href=\"https:\/\/owl.purdue.edu\/\">the Purdue OWL<\/a> offers information on anything from general writing techniques, to citation rules, to ELL resources.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/writingcenter.unc.edu\/tips-and-tools\/\">UNC Chapel Hill\u2019s online writing center<\/a> offers accessible, student-centered, and trustworthy writing resources, e.g. handouts, examples, explanations, and videos, on all aspects of writing assignments, the writing process, and genres across the disciplines.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/writingcenter.fas.harvard.edu\/pages\/strategies-essay-writing\">Harvard\u2019s website<\/a> offers a number of strategies for essay writing geared for students.\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h3 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Citation and plagiarism<\/h3><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/plagiarism.iu.edu\/index.html\">Indiana University\u2019s Plagiarism Tutorials and Tests<\/a> website includes detailed guides on detecting and avoiding plagiarism, including video case studies of plagiarism, common errors in paraphrasing, and exercises.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.citationgame.org\/\">The Citation Game<\/a> allows learners to test their knowledge of the most common citation styles, including MLA, APA, and Chicago.<br \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h3 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Grammar<\/h3><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chompchomp.com\/menu.htm\">Grammar Bytes<\/a> presents grammatical topics in a light-hearted manner and includes examples, exercises, handouts, and other resources for students and faculty.<\/li>\n<li>The University of Adelaide has created <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adelaide.edu.au\/writingcentre\/sites\/default\/files\/docs\/learningguide-verbsforreporting.pdf\">this guide<\/a> to categorize common reporting verbs in terms of their function, strength, and grammatical features.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h3 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Multimodal Writing and Information Literacy<\/h3><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/firstyearwriting.english.uconn.edu\/instructors\/curriculum\/\">UConn\u2019s website<\/a> lists key guidelines for developing multimodal assignments and provides examples of multimodal assignments in writing classes.<\/li>\n<li>The Harvard Law School Library has created <a href=\"https:\/\/guides.library.harvard.edu\/c.php?g=310751&amp;p=2275979#s-lg-page-section-9103974\">this guide<\/a> to understand and effectively use public domain and Creative Commons media.<br \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h3 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Peer Review and Feedback<\/h3><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>University of Michigan\u2019s page on <a href=\"https:\/\/lsa.umich.edu\/sweetland\/instructors\/guides-to-teaching-writing\/using-peer-review-to-improve-student-writing.html\">Using Peer Review to Improve Student Writing<\/a> provides an overview of peer review, as well as general strategies and handouts geared for faculty and students.<br \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h3 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Word Choice and Style<\/h3><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sentence.yourdictionary.com\/\">SentenceYourDictionary<\/a> allows the user to search for a word and see contexts in which this word is often used, offering insight into its collocations, connotations, and grammatical features.<\/li>\n<li>The Up-Goer <a href=\"https:\/\/splasho.com\/upgoer5\/\">Five Text Editor<\/a>, created by the author of the xkcd comic series, offers an exercise in conciseness and clarity by forcing the writer to explain complex ideas using only the 100 most commonly used words in English.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.umass.edu\/writingcenter\/flow-and-cohesion\">UMass Amherst\u2019s website<\/a> presents global and sentence-level strategies for increasing cohesion in student writing.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csun.edu\/~bashforth\/098_PDF\/06Sep15Connotation_Denotation.pdf\">This detailed guide<\/a> explains the difference between connotation and denotation, and provides a lot of examples.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h3 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Other Resources<\/h3><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>This concise <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bettertoeflscores.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/wordy-sentences.pdf\">guide<\/a> highlights key characteristics of professional e-mail writing.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wr.english.fsu.edu\/College-Composition\/The-Inkwell\/Ice-Breakers\">Florida State University\u2019s website<\/a> lists a number of different ice breakers for use in writing (and other) classes.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/writing.markfullmer.com\/academic-style-titles\">This guide<\/a> explains how to write and capitalize effective titles for scholarly texts.<\/li>\n<li>Duke Writing Program&#8217;s Writing for Specific Disciplines website provides <a href=\"https:\/\/twp.duke.edu\/twp-writing-studio\/resources-students\/specific-disciplines\">overviews of discipline specific writing<\/a>, including guide on Visual Studies\/Literacy, Economics, Political Science, and more.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/writing\/faculty\/workshops\">Vanderbilt\u2019s Writing Studio<\/a> offers detailed scripts for in-class writing workshops (geared for writing consultants\/tutors as well as instructors).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h3 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Remote Teaching<\/h3><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" 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