Robbins Library Notes

Good morning, readers!

Last week, I was forwarded a link to a new “Writing and Speaking Resources at Harvard” site.  Here is the description from the site itself:

Writing and Speaking Resources at Harvard

All incoming Harvard Freshmen are required to take an Expository Writing course – a course that, in the program’s own words “concentrates directly on the craft of composing and revising student ideas. Our philosophy is that writing and thinking are inseparably related and that good thinking requires good writing.”

What fewer students and instructors realize however is that Harvard offers many more writing resources for both teachers and students, beyond freshman year Expos.

This website enumerates and describes these resources, and provides direct links to their web sites.

The site is divided into six sections:

1. Writing resources for undergraduates
2. Writing resources for faculty and instructors
3. Writing resources for graduate students in their capacity as students
4. Writing resources for graduate students in their capacity as instructors
5. All writing resources at Harvard
6. All speaking resources at Harvard

Please note that both houses and individual departments may offer their own writing tutor services. Because of their non-uniform nature, they are not covered in this web site.

I have added the link to the Department of Philosophy’s Web site (look for the “Writing” header in the “Online Resources” section), and have added it to the blogroll as well.

Are there other writing resources to add or consider?

A hat-tip to Ruth Kolodney for forwarding this to me.