Useful resources

In the Writing Center, you access to a number of helpful books including reference and workbooks that can benefit your writing. Please ask your tutor or the staff in the Writing Center office to see these..
Below is a list of links to various writing resources on the Internet, including online writing centers offering handouts on a wide range of writing issues. This list is intended to familiarize you with online resources that can aid your academic writing development. Keep in mind that new websites are constantly appearing and old websites frequently change URLs or disappear entirely. Also, remember that you need to make a careful judgment about the credibility of all online sources. (See the appropriate chapters in Harbrace Writer's Handbook for the use of online sources.)

University Resources
Online Writing Lab, Purdue University
Writer's Web, University of Richmond
Advice on Academic Writing, University of Toronto
Writing Center, The University of Kansas
Developing an introduction, Literacy Education Online, St. Cloud State University
An Online Writing Lab
A Guide to Grammar and Style
​Dictionary & Thesaurus
Other Writing Resources

​​Research at The FLA Writing Center

Professor Brian Paltridge delivering his plenary talk.

The FLA Writing Center directors are regularly engaged in writing research. In February 2019, The FLA and Sophia University were proud to host The Eleventh Symposium on Writing Centers in Asia. The plenary speaker was Brian Paltridge of the University of Sydney. He spoke on “Genre and second language academic writing: Influences and developments.” There were also more than twenty research presentations on a variety of topics related to writing pedagogy.
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The following is a list of presentations and publications of our research.

Presentations
11th Symposium on Writing Centers in Asia. "Expanding the scope of writing centers to include academic digital literacy training". Sophia University, February 2019.
10th Symposium on Writing Centers in Asia. "Designing a meditational aid to facilitate tutor-tutee interactions in the writing center". Toyo University, March 2018.
6th Symposium on Writing Centers in Asia, “Post-task specific reflection in the writing center”, J. F. Oberlin University, March 2014.
5th Symposium on Writing Centers in Asia, "Sophia writing center: Issues and initiatives", National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, April 2013.
3rd Symposium on Writing Centers in Asia, "Workshops or individual tutorials: How can our writing center maximize student benefit?", Kanda Institute of Foreign Languages, March 2011.

Publications
(2020) Creating a virtual writing center to support self-regulated learning. Studies in Self-Access Learning Journal, 11(3), 164–186. https://doi.org/10.37237/110306
(2011) Group workshops: Saving our writing center in Japan", Studies in Self-Access Learning Journal, 2(4).
(2010) English language writing centers in Japanese universities: What do students really need?, Studies in Self-Access Journal, 1(1).

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