• Helping students develop good writing habits
  • Drafts
  • Revision
  • Grammar and correctness
  • Peer evaluation
  • Reading difficult texts
  • Study skills
  • Citation and avoiding plagiarism
  • Issues specific to multilingual students
• Designing and responding to writing assignments
  • Types of writing assignments
  • Formal, "high-stakes" graded assignments
  • Informal, "low-stakes," exploratory writing activities
  • Creating writing objectives
  • Assignments that teach critical thinking
  • Developing grading criteria
  • Responding to student writing
• Further resources
  • Books about writing for music
  • Other writing websites
  • Goals for student writing at Queens College

Other writing websites

Music writing websites

• Dartmouth Writing Program: Writing the Music Paper - Geared towards non-music majors but includes some useful information, particularly for writing concert reviews.
  http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/materials/student/humanities/music.shtml
• University of Iowa - Defines different types of writing about music assignments as well as tips on how to approach them.
  http://www.uiowa.edu/~writingc/writers/handouts/WritingAboutMusic.shtml

General writing websites

• Purdue Online Writing Lab - An extensive collection of writing guides and exercises for students and for faculty.
  http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
• A website is available based on the classic text by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White, The Elements of Style, though the website is by Strunk (not with White): http://www.bartleby.com/141.