Revised Webography

Topic: the websites colleted are mainly meant for both teachers and students in a computer-assisted writing class. Teachers can teach writing with these internet resources and students can learn how to write in a computer-assisted way. These websites will guide them through various stages of writing process. They can refer to the websites for writing format, grammatical accuracy, and even writing inspiration. Hopefully in time of high-tech, when students are writing independently for academic or personal purpose, they do not need to go through thick books for information. Instead, they log on internet and easily find whatever related information through using of these websites. And when teachers are preparing for writing class, they can have access to the related information the easy and fast way.

#1 http://www.rpi.edu/web/writingcenter/handouts.html
This is a website sponsored by a writing community based in New York. It has a detailed introduction on writing process, writing purposes, writing for various contexts and even citations. There are also handouts that can be conveniently downloaded. The forte of the website is the writing for various purposes. In that area writers can find basic format for job application, application for graduate school. If teachers are going to deliver a class on various types of composition, they can get into this webpage and easily select the intended writing area. Students can also use this website for online learning of writing. They may learn from this site how to write according to different purposes and detect what differences exist among various types of writing. It is worth mentioning that many Chinese students are used to only writing arguments, therefore at the time of graduation they usually get in loss as to how to write recommendations or application letters. For some of the students, they have to go to professional translators. With this website, they may solve the problem by themselves.

#2 http://www.ceu.hu/writing/sfaccess.html This website is sponsored by Central European University. It focuses mainly on writing-related resources. The website helps students go through writing process from forming a topic, choosing appropriate style to getting papers published. And it offers special service of improving writing for various disciplines. Besides the writing guidance for proficient language user, it also provides writing guidance for not so proficient second language user, for example international students targeting IELTS writing. The navigation of the website can be realized through viewing main topics on the left columns or choosing specific disciplinary writing displayed on the top of the right-hand space. The website keeps good updating record. The most recent update happens on February 2nd, 2007. The website provides detailed information concerning its sponsor, such as address and telephone number.

# 3 http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/materials/about.shtml This is a Dartmouth College-sponsored website. It classifies writing resources into different categories, namely those for students, for faculty and for writing tutors. The classification makes the website easy to navigate and students/teachers may get to the target information accordingly. The materials for students can be further divided into two groups: those for specific disciplines and those for ESL students. Both types of sources are concerned with academic writing. They provide students with detailed writing style, process, and format. The writing materials for faculty are pedagogical sources that can be used in writing class and with some simple changes these sources can be adapted into writing activities. the website also offers writing sources related to different scientific subjects. The writing information for tutors can be also helpful for students. It sheds light on specific problems such as logic, structure, thesis sentence and etc.. The website keeps constant updating. The most recent one happens on April 11th of 2006. The website specifies its sponsor address and telephone number.

# 4 http://writing.richmond.edu/resources/
This website is presented by University of Richmond. The website also provides various resources according to the target users. The neatly presented webpage has several links for users to choose from. You may click "for writers", "for tutors" and such like links to investigate the writing from different perspectives. It is particularly teacher-friendly. Teachers will be surprised if they click on "for faculty", where there are not only sources for writing but also activity specially designed for different type of writing. Teachers can borrow the activities and with some changes these activities can be used in writing class. This website is especially suitable for college students to use for it provides not only solution to writing problems but also deals with psychological problems caused by writing, such as how to ease writing anxiety. I regard this aspect very useful, because many students do not progress in writing not simply for language deficiency but for mental anxiety.

# 5 http://www.utoronto.ca/writing/advise.html
This is a website specializes in research paper. It is created by Dr. Margaret Procter, the coordinator of Writing Support at the University of Toronto. It has been recently updated on Feb. 13 of 2007. The inclusion of this website into the collection is because back in China many college students will have the needs in the future of writing for research purpose. This type of writing can be introduced in the class to prepare students for future academic study. Students may also independently search through the website to familiarize themselves with the basic research writing elements. However, this is by no means a website for high-writing-level students. It also has links that provides grammar practice, paragraph development and other solutions to basic linguistic problems students often encounter.

#6 http://cwl.oregonstate.edu/index.html The Center for Writing and Learning is a support service for students and faculty at Oregon State University. Its mission is to provide programs in writing and learning that enable students at all levels to function effectively, efficiently, and confidently in the academic environment. The Writing Center offers free help with any writing task at any stage of the writing process. Writing assistants can help with all aspects of the writing process from brainstorming and organization to questions of grammar and usage. The website features interaction between writing assistants and students. The timely response may help students discover their writing problems as well as improper use of language. The website does not offer many sources for students or teachers, but its feature of online-response is worth promoting.

# 7 http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
This website is sponsored by Capital community college foundation, which is a non-profit organization supporting faculty development and curriculum innovation. The website deals with writing problems on different levels. For foreign language learners, even though they have mastered good vocabulary and grammar, there are still writing difficulties to face, due to linguistic difference between mother tongue and foreign language. This website divides these problems into minimal levels such as grammar, sentence, and paragraph and all the way up to academic/research paper. This website has a friendly front-page layout. It is easy to navigate and search for particular information. When students are writing through the help of internet, this orderly classified website can offer great help. Teachers can also benefit from browsing the website because its detailed introduction to writing will save the time of going through guiding books for composition.