We're moving!  The Writing Page will be moving to www.marlboro.edu/academics/requirements/writing_program over the course of the next week.  Please make note of the new address.  Information on this site will continue to be updated through September 5, 2003.

Scores for the Preliminary Writing Exam, September 1, 2003

Advance sign-up sheets for Writing Seminars are available on Writing Instructor's doors.  (Biamonte -- Dal 24; Mooney -- Dal 27A; Sheehy -- Dal 37).

A Student's Survival Guide to the Clear Writing Requirement: answers to frequently asked questions about the Writing Program, the portfolio and the Requirement, written by former Marlboro students.

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Writing Courses for Fall 2003

• Writing Seminar:  America Noir (Sheehy)
  • Tu-Th 1:30 - 2:50, Th 6:30 - 9:00 (D38)
  • Intro class: Wednesday 10:30, D43
    
• Writing Seminar:  Darkness Visible (Biamonte)
  • Tu-Th 10:00 - 11:20, D43
  • Intro class:  Wednesday 8:30, D42
    
• Writing Seminar: Milestones in American Censorship (Mooney)
  • Tu-Th 11:30 - 12:50, D13
  • Intro class:  Wednesday 9:00, D13
    
• Writing Seminar: Composing a Self (Biamonte)
  • Tu-Th 11:30 - 12:50, D43
  • Intro class:  Wednesday 9:30, D38
    
• Writing Seminar:  War and Rumors of War (Sheehy)
  • Tu-Th 11:30 - 12:50, D38
  • Intro class:  Wednesday 10:30, D43
    
• Writing Seminar: Studies in Short Fiction (Mooney)
  • Tu-F 3:30 - 4:50, D43
  • Intro class:  Wednesday, 10:00, D38

Designated Writing Courses can be found in the Fall 2003 Course List

Past Writing Courses

• Elements of Style (Stevenson)
• Writing Seminar: Picturing Ourselves (Biamonte)
• Writing Seminar: Twice Told Tales (Biamonte)
• Writing Seminar: Genetic Engineering – Who’s Driving the Train? (Stevenson, Smith)
• Fundamentals of Creative Non-Fiction Writing (Stevenson/Sheehy)
• Writing Across the Disciplines (Sheehy)
• Writing Seminar: Three Women, Many Stories (Biamonte)
• Writing Seminar: The Age of Einstein and Yeats (Sheehy)
• Writing Seminar: Body and Soul – Health, Disease and Culture (Stevenson)
• Writing Seminar: Reading and Writing the Natural World (Biamonte)
• Writing Seminar: Writing in Black and White (Sheehy)
• Fundamentals of Fiction Writing (Stevenson)
• Writing Seminar: The West and America (Sheehy)
• Writing Seminar: (W)rites of Passage (Biamonte)
• Writing Seminar: Origins of the World and Man (Stevenson)
• Writing Seminar: The Coming of Age Novel (Biamonte)
• Writing Seminar: Drugs and Culture (Sheehy)
• Writing Across the Disciplines (Sheehy)
• Writing Seminar: Film Violence (Sheehy)
• Writing Seminar: Imagining the Past (Biamonte)
• Writing Seminar: Making the Magic, Telling the Tales (Biamonte)
• Writing Seminar: Literary Understanding
• Writing Seminar: American Identities
• Writing Seminar: Mystery Fiction
• Writing Seminar: Composing a Self
• Writing Seminar: History, Memory and Narrative
• Writing Seminar: Legal Fictions
• Writing Seminar: The Form of the Essay
• Writing Seminar: The Pragmatist Movement
• Writing Seminar: The Quest for Morality
• Writing Seminar: The Experience of Power
• Writing Seminar: Film Violence
• Writing Seminar: Writing the First People
• Writing Seminar: The Age of Darwin and Dostoevsky
• Writing Seminar: The Age of Herschel and Goethe
• Writing and the Teaching of Writing
• Designated Writing Course: The Old World and the New
• Writing Seminar: The Age of Galileo and Shakespeare
• Writing Seminar: Writing the Land
• Plan Writing Seminar

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The Instructors

Laura Stevenson

John Sheehy

Gloria Biamonte

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Style Resources

Style guides:

• 20 Common Usage and Punctuation Errors Explained (Connors & Lunsford)
• The University of Victoria's Writing Guide: Lots of good stuff here. A good place to go when you need something quick and you've left your handbook at home.
• Indiana University's Writing Site
• Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL)
• Guide to Grammar and Writing

Writing Centers:

• The Writer's Block: Marlboro's Writing Center (link coming soon)
• Online Writing Center Consortium -- this is a GREAT site.
• The University of Washington Writing Center (John Sheehy's former life)
• Tidewater Community College's List of Grammar Hotlines where help with grammar and punctuation is only a phone call or e-mail message away.
• National Writing Centers Association list of Online Writing Labs and Centers
• Texas A&M Writing Center -- many good links here.
• Help sheet for analyzing an essay (Texas A&M)
• Help sheet for analyzing a literary work (Texas A&M)

Science and Technical Writing:

• English for Science and Technology
• Robert A. Day's list of words and expressions to avoid in scientific and technical writing. This list applies as well to academic writing.
• Medical and Scientific Writing offers advice, style guides, links to journals for medical and bioscience writers. It's geared toward helping the writer create and edit manuscripts for publication in medical and bioscientific journals. Thus it offers: Tips for formatting manusripts; Tips for non-English scientific writers; and Free scientific and medical software.

Creative Writing:

• The Associated Writing Programs, a resource for creative writing programs.

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Research Resources

• Handling Sources: A Research and Documentation Guide for Marlboro College Writers
• Marlboro Library Resources
• How to Search the Web: A Guide to Search Tools
• See also online bookstores and online research resources

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Books and Resources Online

Online bookstores:

• Amazon.com (new books, very complete listings. Fast and good, but not necessarily cheap.)
• Bibliocity (used books -- you have to register to search. Online ordering, quick delivery)
• BookFinder.com (a GREAT source for used books -- searches used bookstores across the country. Online ordering, quick delivery.)

Places to start research online:

• Jack Lynch's INCREDIBLE list of online resources (searchable -- a must-see)
• The Voice of the Shuttle -- resources on nearly every field conceivable in the humanities

Further books and resources on the web:

• Books On-Line
• PROJECT GUTENBERG - ETEXT LISTINGS
• Project MUSE Home Page
• Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts