Writing in College: A Short Guide to College Writing.

Writing in College: A Short Guide to College Writing Emanating from the University of Chicago, this site offers general advice in a friendly, encouraging tone for a student audience. Although students are the intended audience, instructors who wish to incorporate student writing but are not sure how to support said writers may also find this resource of value. A box on the landing page takes the visitor to a variety of places, several of them local (e.g., course descriptions, tutors' hours), but others of general interest. For general writing guidelines, the most valuable link is Grammar, with resources under headings such as Grammar Guides, Usage, and Classic Style Guides. Clicking on the resource itself takes the user to an authoritative site--for example, Bartleby.com, or Grammar and Style Notes, created by Jack Lynch (Rutgers). The entire writing process is covered. Other links on the home page send the visitor to everything from the shift from high school to college, to discussions of plagiarism and writer's block. One leads to Sentence of the Week and an exemplar sentence in need of attention.The site contents are offered both as a set of five hyperlinked pages with subtopics or as printable PDFs. Unfortunately, the PDFs have spacing issues making them less readable than the online version. The site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives license, meaning that educators and educational institutions may use the materials free of charge so long as the materials are reproduced as is and credit is given to the authors. This Creative Commons license allows instructors to bring these materials into a classroom or writing center free of charge without worrying about fair use guidelines and copyright law. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates; teachers and faculty; general audiences. -- S. E. Vie, Fort Lewis College. Reviewed in  February 2013 issue of ACRL's CHOICE. http://writing-program.uchicago.edu/resources/collegewriting/