http://cai.ucdavis.edu/caihandouts/teachinglinks.html
I created this collection of links for Donald Johns, Assistant Director of Composition here at U.C. Davis, who was compiling articles for a graduate seminar on teaching and evaluating college writing. A few of the links I sent Dr. Johns appear on this sheet, as well.
http://www.criticalthinking.org/default.html
Donald Johns first introduced me to the Center for Critical Thinking, located at Sonoma State University. Instructors of U.C. Davis classes would be most interested in the resources and the library. Present or future primary and secondary school teachers of critical thinking might visit the links created for them and their students.
http://www.utc.edu/Teaching-Resource-Center/critical.html
This site from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga provides a review paper on critical thinking, including a bibliography of books and links. The site also offers a section called "Teaching Strategies to Help Promote Critical Thinking" that might lead to better class discussions in literature and writing classrooms.
http://www.english.pdx.edu/cew/WritingProcess.html
A straightforward explanation of the writing process, with surprisingly visual representations of Inspiration, Brainstorming, Outlining, Writing, and Revising. We might compare this to the stages of writing discussed in Maxine Hairston's Successful Writing: "preparing, planning, drafting, incubating, revising, editing, and proofreading."
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~compose/tutor/problems/thesis.html
An excellent handout from the Dartmouth Composition Center. This site looks to have been established for peer tutors in the writing center, and it therefore helpfully overexplains some topics. You’ll appreciate its checklist ("Will your thesis make the grade?"), which includes questions like "Does my thesis sentence attempt to answer (or at least to explore) a challenging intellectual question?" and "Is the point I'm making one that would generate discussion and argument, or is it one that would leave people asking, ‘So what?’" I always find myself asking my students these questions about their writing.
Do review all the Writing Tutor Training materials available at Dartmouth. The table of contents found here http://www.dartmouth.edu/~compose/tutor/ includes headings/links with titles such as "The Process Approach to Teaching Writing" and "Advice from the Trenches."
http://www.rensselaer.edu/dept/llc/writecenter/web/thesis.html
This site provides an excellent explanation of the thesis, one from which you’ll feel comfortable quoting liberally in your writing classes. Pay special attention to the "Orders of Knowledge" section: "Mortimer Adler divides knowledge into three classes: statements of facts, statements about facts, and statements about statements." I learned this from graduate student Gordon Sullivan and use it all the time.
http://athena.english.vt.edu/~1styear/bb/bedford.html
The First-Year Writing Program at Virginia Tech has helpfully transcribed much of the Bedford Bibliography for Writing Teachers, with each of the 28 chapters listed as a link to synopses of the best articles found therein. See the chapters on Basic Writing and Writing in the Workplace for a sample.
Online Writing Labs (or OWLs)
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
The best Online Writing Lab is run by Purdue University. The Yahoo! of writing resources, this site is a great place to start to find helpful handouts on the web (though because the Purdue OWL has recently "upgraded" its web site, any URL from mid-2000 or before is now dead).
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/internet/owls/index.html
This is the link (from the Purdue OWL) to about 80 other OWLs (about twice the number in 2001 as were available in 2000).
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/cws/wworkshop/ww_hand.html
This site, much like the one you are visiting now, compiles and annotates the best "self-help" resources for aspiring writers and teachers of writing. From this site you can link to the University of Illinois Writers' Workshop documents, including a grammar handbook and resources for teachers of writing.
http://eee.uci.edu/programs/comp/others.html
Here someone at U.C. Irvine has compiled a hyperlinked compendium of Writing Centers that can be accessed via the web. It's a few years old.
http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/1.1/owls/owlfront.html
This site from the online journal Kairos collects hypertext articles that investigate, theorize, and problematize the OWL phenomenon. Look especially at "Technoprovocateurs and OWLS in the Late Age of Print" by J. Paul Johnson.
The National Writing Centers Associations home page links to Writing Center Resources, Writing Centers Online, and Resources for Writers (divided into helpful categories).
http://isu.indstate.edu/writing/handouts/handouts.html
This site from Indiana State University provides one of the best collections of handouts that are ready to be Xeroxed and brought to class. This is also a particularly good site to send students who have a repeated problem with a relatively minor writing issue that does not merit review before the entire class.
Writing and Grammar Links Used by The Hamlet Project
These links, researched and compiled by Andy Jones for a different audience, are organized in the order in which they might arise in a fictional three-week mini-course on Shakespeare's Hamlet. They are presented roughly in order of importance.