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Tonya Howe
Ph.D. August 2005
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI

Visiting Assistant Professor of English
Washington & Lee University, Lexington VA

 

 

WIRE: Writing Instructors' Resources

WIRE is a resource-sharing project developed by myself and Fritz Swanson at the University of
Michigan. Under the leadership of Anne Curzan, the Writing Program's head, we implemented a wiki
designed specifically to allow instructors of first-year English courses an organic repository of 
teaching materials to adapt, borrow, re-use, and add to. A wiki is web-based application that 
allows users to edit existing web pages easily and dynamically; users may upload materials, discuss 
resources with other users, and update materials already available. The most easily recognizable wiki 
is the WikiPedia.

Please feel free to visit WIRE. A username (fsys) and password (pearl) are required for login. In 
the meantime, I've included some screen shots of the application below. Click on an image to enlarge it.

WIRE: Main Page

WIRE: Course Resources

WIRE: Meta Resources

WIRE: 124 Resources

WIRE: 125 Resources

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