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Assigning Collaborative Writing: Tips for Teachers - Rebecca Moore Howard, Syracuse University
URL: http://wrt-howard.syr.edu/Handouts/Tchg.Collab.html
Collaborating online - California Virtual Campus
Skills and tools for online teamwork and project management.
Collaborative Writing - George Mason University/New Century College's Online Writing Guide
Strategies, roles, integrity issues of working collaboratively.
Collaborative Writing Tools & Technology: A Mini-Guide - Kolabora, Robin Good's "independent forum about online collaboration, Web conferencing and real-time live presentation technologies." Mini-guide lists absence/presence of key features of writing tools and technologies, links to reviews and tool information web sites.
The Writing Center Guide to Writing Groups - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Group work and feedback resources, activities and work sheets.

Academic writing for undergraduate students - Monash University, AU
Defines academic writing, important features and techniques for successful writing across disciplines.
Design Your Own Anti-Procrastination Plan - UT-Austin's Learning Center
Strategies to use, Includes "Procrastination Quotient" chart to rate tendencies to wait until later.
Drafting the Essay - Monash University, AU
Includes interactive analyses of how introductions and conclusions are suited to the essay's content.
Overcoming Writer's Block - UT-Austin's Learning Center
Principles of Composition - Charles Darling, Capital Community College
Sections: The Writing Process, Structural Considerations, Patterns of Composition, online handbook with subtopic descriptions and illustrations.
Some General Advice on Academic Essay-Writing - U Toronto
Overview of general strategies, with resource links for stages of writing from understanding the topic through proofreading.
Writing: Completing the First Draft - University of Otago, NZ
Guidelines, possible frameworks, linked examples of parts of essay.
The Writing Process - University of Leeds, UK
Essay planning, argument building, the art of drafting, proofreading for assignment needs, standard English, judicious use of first person point of view.