Links

This page collects a number of links that might be relevant or useful to the GES membership. If you know of a link that you feel should be included, or find a broken link, please free free to contact the site administrator. Please note that the GES is not responsible for the content of any of these links. Special thanks go to Elan Paulson for locating most of these resources.

Administrative Links

• School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
• Society of Graduate Students (SOGS)
• Student Services
• Office of the Registrar
• MyHumanResources
• Graduate Degree Regulations
• Disabilities Services
• Graduate Teaching Assistant / Research Assistant Union

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On-Campus

• Campus Maps
• Western Libraries
• The Grad Club
• Teaching Support Centre
• Student Development Services
• Information Technology Services (ITS)

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In the Department

• The English Department
• Research and Reading Groups
• The Coterie
• Research and Reading Groups at UWO

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Completing your Dissertation

• UWO's Thesis Regulation Guide
• UWO's Principles and Guidelines for Supervising Students
• Tips for Getting Organized and Coping with Writer's Block (UC Davis)
• Suggestions for Successful Dissertation Guidelines (U of Colorado)
• Working Smart: Recovering the Lost Art of Notetaking
• How to Build a Paper Research Database
• Digital Academic Workflow
• Mac Apps for Academic Tasks
• The "One Draft" Thesis

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Education Journals and Newsletters

• University Affairs
• The Chronicle of Higher EducationThe Teaching Professor e-newsletter
• The Humanities and Arts Higher Education Network
• Tomorrow's Professor Blog

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Teaching Resources

• Developing a strong TA / Teacher Relationship (U of Minnesota)
• 75 Things You Can Do to Enhance Your Classroom (GRCC)
• Icebreaker Suggestions (GRCC)
• Getting the Most Out of Tutorials (U Melbourne)
• Questioning Strategies (U Delaware)
• MERLOT: Multimedia Education Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
• Designing and Leading Seminars and Discussion Groups (Oxford Brookes U)
• Leading Discussions (Cornell)
• Active Learning Bibliography: Humanities
• Resolving Difficult Situations (U of Texas at Austin)
• GLBT Classroom Resources for Faculty (U of Minnesota)
• Responding to Distressed Students (UCSB). NB: Please refer all students to Western's Ombudsperson in UCC 251.

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Grading and Feedback

• UVic Writer's Guide (UVic)
• Grading Class Participation (U of Virginia
• Popular Cheating Sites (UofA)
• Humanities Core Course Grading Rubric for Writing
• Teaching Assessment: Practices for Graduate Student Instructors

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Teaching Literature

• Sequenced Lesson Plans: English Literature (Georgia Dep't of Education)
Edsitement: Literary and Language Arts Teaching Literature: Critical Lenses
• Teaching English Through Technology (Western Michigan)
• Digital Arts and Humanities: English Literature and Languages
The Voice of the Shuttle English TA Handbook (UCSB)
• English Teaching: Practice and Critique
• English Discourse in Composition
• English Education (National Council of Teachers of English)
• English Education
• Pedagogy
• Research in the Teaching of English (National Council of Teachers of English)
• The Writing Instructor
• Why We Teach English (And How We Could Do It Better), an essay by Michael LoMonico (PDF)

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Syllabi and Open Courseware

• Course Syllabi on American Indian LiteraturesEarly Ibero/Anglo Americanist Syllabus Exchange
• Open Courseware at MIT
• Open Education Resources (OER) Commons
• Open Learn Learning Space, the Open University
• Utah Open Course Ware Alliance
• Utah State University Open Course Ware
• Webcast/Courses at Berkeley

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Grammar and Writing

• English 020E Web Resources for Students (UWO)
• Services for Faculty and Teaching Assistants (UWO SDS)
• Writing Resources for Faculty and TAs (UofT)
• Writing About Literature (Purdue)

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Teaching Conferences and Fora

• The International Conference on College Teaching and Learning
• Improving University Teaching
Forum for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

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