Evaluation of a Web Resource: UNC at Chapel Hill, Writing Center

http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/

The Writing Center’s website is dedicated to helping students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with their writing assignments. Graduate students specially trained to teach writing offer tutoring sessions in person and online. The website is very user friendly and efficiently designed, using colorful tabs and interactive binders as a way of navigating around the website. The website encourages students to use the writing center. They have a section where Mr. Potato Head gives a virtual tour of the writing center and a video on what a typical tutoring session would be like. Although you must be a UNC at Chapel Hill student to attend the workshops, events and tutoring sessions, handouts are available to the public. The handouts offer help on every aspect of the writing process, including help with specific assignments and context, writing for specific fields, evaluating sources and citations.

One of the handouts called Reading to Write would be helpful for the class in understanding and reacting to the assigned readings. The handout gives advice on how to work with the text and effectively write about it. What should be considered when reading the text and advice on how to take notes.

http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/readingwriting.html

Another handout available on the website is about the thesis statements. This will be helpful for our class when we begin to write our abstracts, which will include a thesis statement. There is advice available on discovering and defining a thesis statement, writing a thesis statement and supporting it.

http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/thesis.html

Another handout is on abstracts. What an abstract is and the purpose of it is clearly explained in the handout. Steps are given on how exactly to write an abstract. This is an important handout that I think the class should use because it takes you clearly through the steps of writing your own abstract.

http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/abstracts.html