COURSE LIBRARY
WELL-BEING LIBRARY
- What is Positive Pyschology & Why Is it Important? (Positive Psychology Program)
- The Father of Positive Psychology and His Two Theories of Happiness (David Sze)
- Positive Psychology Progress: Empirical Validation of Interventions (Martin E.P. Seligman et al.)
- Greater Good in Action: Science-Based Practices for a Meaningful Life (UC Berkeley's Project Home Page)
- Three Good Things (Greater Good in Action)
- Gratitude Has a Dark Side (Sarah Greenberg & Andrew Thomson)
- Listening to the World (Mary Oliver)
- My Feelings Are Not My Enemies (Miguel Clark Mallet)
WELL-BEING PROJECT
- The Father of Positive Psychology and His Two Theories of Happiness (David Sze)
- The "Swiss Army Knife" of Health: A Good Night's Sleep (Hidden Brain Podcast)
- Stuck at a Crossroads? Use 'Design Thinking' to Navigate Uncertainty (Jeena Cho)
- What It's Like to Trip on the Most Potent Magic Mushroom (Michael Pollan)
- Rewinding and Rewriting: The Alternate Universes in Our Head (Hidden Brain Podcast)
- Looking Back: Reflecting On The Past To Understand The Present (Hidden Brain Podcast)
- You 2.0: The Value Of 'Deep Work' In An Age Of Distraction (Hidden Brain Podcast)
- Design Thinking Could Help Those Who Want to Get Unstuck (Hidden Brain Podcast)
- What is Positive Pyschology & Why Is it Important? (Positive Psychology Program)
- Positive Psychology Progress: Empirical Validation of Interventions (Martin E.P. Seligman et al.)
- Greater Good in Action: Science-Based Practices for a Meaningful Life (UC Berkeley's Project Home Page)
- Three Good Things (Greater Good in Action)
- Gratitude Letter (Greater Good in Action)
- Gratitude Journal Greater Good in Action
- Best Possible Self (Greater Good in Action)
- Noticing Nature (Greater Good in Action)
- Random Acts of Kindness (Greater Good in Action)
- Selective Attention Test
WRITING PROCESS TEXTS
- Why I Write: George Orwell's Four Universal Motives [...]
- Why I Write (Joan Didion)
- How Can You Create Fiction When Reality Comes to Call (Carolyn Chute)
- Hemingway's Advice on Writing [...] (Maria Popova)
- 6 Ways to be a Hemingway-Level Productive Badass (Drake Baer)
- How to Be a Writer: Hemingway's Advice to Aspiring Authors
- The Daily Writing Routines of Great Writers (Maria Popova)
- Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (Anne Lamott)
- Zen in the Art of Writing (Ray Bradbury)
- Against Vanity: In Praise of Revision (Mary Karr)
- The Myth of Creative Inspiration
- 12 Essential Ted Talks for College Writers
- Why You Need to Fail (Derek Sivers, TED Talk)
- The Power of Belief -- Mindset and Success (Eduardo Briceno, TED Talk)
- When Students Feel They Belong, They Thrive
- Growth vs Fixed Mindset (@Visalus)
- Growth Mindset Video
- PERTS Academic Mindsets Assessment
- Summary: Using it Wisely
- Integrating Sources
- Quote Sandwich
MEANING-MAKING PROCESSES
- Against Vanity: In Praise of Revision (Mary Karr)
- Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (Anne Lamott)
- Teach Writing as a Process Not a Product (Don Murray)
- Why I Write: George Orwell's Four Universal Motives [...]
- Why I Write (Joan Didion)
- How Can You Create Fiction When Reality Comes to Call (Carolyn Chute)
- Hemingway's Advice on Writing [...] (Maria Popova)
- 6 Ways to be a Hemingway-Level Productive Badass (Drake Baer)
- The Daily Writing Routines of Great Writers (Maria Popova)
- Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (Anne Lamott)
- Zen in the Art of Writing (Ray Bradbury)
- Against Vanity: In Praise of Revision (Mary Karr)
- The Myth of Creative Inspiration
- Glen Gould in Rapture (The 'Flow State') / Punch the Keys! (Finding Forrester)
- 12 Essential Ted Talks for College Writers
- Why You Need to Fail (Derek Sivers, TED Talk)
- The Power of Believing You Can Improve (Carol Dweck, TED Talk)
- The Power of Belief -- Mindset and Success (Eduardo Briceno, TED Talk)
- When Students Feel They Belong, They Thrive
- Fixed Mindset vs. Growth Mindset
- Neuroplasticity
- The Banking Concept of Education (Paulo Freire)
- Collaborative Learning and the "Conversation of Mankind" (Kenneth Bruffee)
- What is Literacy? (James Paul Gee)
- Lev Vygotsky's Cognitive Development Theory and the Benefits of Play
- Jerome Bruner's Theory of Education: From Early Bruner to Late Bruner (Keiichi Takaya)
- The Narrative Construction of Reality (Jerome Bruner)
- Life as Story -- Self as Text (Ingrida Vaňková)
- A Guided Meditation
- What is WOOP?
- WOOP Steps
- WOOP App
- Critical Thinking (Khan Academy)
- The Doubting and Believing Game--An Analysis of the Intellectual Enterprise (Peter Elbow)
- Multitask Masters (Maria Konnikova)
- The Nature of Creativity and The Courage to Create (Academy of Ideas)
NARRATIVE (AND OTHER GENRES) WRITING
WEEBLY WEBSITE & BLOGGING LINKS
- How to Create a Weebly Website (Video Tutorial)
- Organizing Website Content
- Weebly Blog Tutorial
- Create a Blog Post
- Weebly Tricks
- How to Put Your Weebly Blog Posts Into Columns
- Weebly Help Center
- How to Upload a Word Document or PDF File on a Weebly Webpage
- How to Post a Google Doc on a Weebly Web Page
- How to Upload a YouTube Video
- How to Upload a YouTube Video From your Phone
- YouTube Video Editor
- Viddler
- Vimeo
- Vimeo FAQ
- SoundCloud
- The Beginner's Guide to SoundCloud
- Download Audacity: Sound Editor
COLLECTION OF READINGS
- To You, I Belong (Becky Thompson)
- Life as Narrative (Jerome Bruner)
- Neuroplasticity
- Teach Writing as a Process Not a Product (Don Murray)
- The Daily Writing Routines of Great Writers (Maria Popova)
- The Proust Questionnaire
- The Power of Belief: Mindset and Success (Eduardo Briceno, TED Talk)
- The Power of Believing You Can Improve (Carol Dweck, TED Talk)
- The Writing Site
- Making Scenes in Memoir (Lee Martin)
- My Name is Margaret (Maya Angelou)
- Hills Like White Elephants (Ernest Hemingway)
- Developing Theme Scene by Scene (Martha Alderson & Jordan Rosenfeld)
- Picturing the Personal Essay (Tim Bascom)
- Material and Non-Material Culture
- Show Me the Money
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Opening Action Scene)
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off (Information Scene)
- How to Write a Narrative Essay Using Scenes
- Narrative Arc
- Narrative Arc (Visual)
- Plot, Theme, the Narrative Arc, and Narrative Patterns
- Keys to Realistic Dialogue
- Types of Conflict
- Literary Devices
- What is a Theme?
- What is a Motif?
- What is a Symbol?
- What is Imagery?
- Theme vs Motif (video)
- Themes, Motifs, & Symbols
- Types of Conflict Found in Literature
- Style, Diction, Tone, and Voice
- The Cave: An Adaption of Plato's Allegory in Clay
- Plato's Divided Line
- The I-Search Paper (Ken Macrorie)
- I-Search Paper (Sample)
- Greater Good in Action: Science-Based Practices for a Meaningful Life (University of California, Berkley)
- Purdue Owl Sample of MLA Paper
- DCCC Student Sample of MLA Research Paper (Matt Reiter)
- Literature Review (Purdue OWL)
- Literature Reviews (The Writing Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
- Aristotle's Rhetorical Situation (Purdue OWL)
- Analyzing Primary Data (Purdue OWL)
- Conducting Research
- Is My Source Reliable?
- Evaluating During Reading
- Media Bias Image
- Learning Commons
- Library Services
- Tutoring Services
- Smarthinking (Online Tutoring Services)
- Library Databases
- Research and Citation Resources
- Summary: Using it Wisely
- Quote Sandwich
- Citation Chart
- Annotated Bibliography
- MLA Style
- MLA Style Center
- APA Style
- MLA In-Text Citations Video
- MLA Works Cited Page Video
- Citation Machine
- EasyBib
- What are Composition Studies?
- What is Creative Nonfiction? (Lee Gutkind)
- What is Literacy? (James Paul Gee)
- What is Rhetoric?
- What's the Story? (Lee Gutkind)
- What You Don't Know (Lulu Wang) | Transcript of the Podcast | Overview of Podcasts
- Why You Need to Fail (Derek Sivers, TED Talk)
- Writing a Source-Based Argument
- Essay Writing
- Conclusions UNC Writing Center
- Persuasive Writing Techniques
- Writing Thesis Statements
- Parallel Structure
- Argument
- Counterargument
- Writing a Counter Argument ("8 Mile" Video Excerpt)
- Logical Fallacies Purdue Owl Writing Lab
- Logical Fallacies (Video Channels)
- Top Ten...Logical Fallacies
- Logical Fallacy Examples
- Truth and Validity (Julianne Chung, Yale University and Khan Academy)
- Critical Thinking (Khan Academy)
- Zen in the Art of Writing (Ray Bradbury)
- What is Creative Nonfiction? (Lee Gutkind)
- Philosophy: Jacques Derrida
- Philosophy: Soren Kierkegaard
- Philosophy: Jean-Paul Sartre
- Philosophy: Michel Foucault
- Philosophy: Albert Camus
- Philosophy: Immanuel Kant
- Philosophy: Socrates and Democracy
- Philosophy: Plato
- Philosophy: Aristotle
- Philosophy: Higher Consciousness
- Philosophy: The Meaning of Life
- Philosophy: Six Ideas of Western Philosophy
- Philosophy: Six Ideas of Eastern Philosophy
- Philosophy: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Philosophy: The Stoics
- Philosophy: Plato on the Allegory of the Cave
- Philosophy: Thomas Aquinas
- Philosophy: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Philosophy: The Psychology and Principles of Mastery
- Philosophy: The Problem of Anger - How to Use the Power of Your Dark Side
- Philosophy: Epictetus and Stoicism: The Wisdom of the Slave Philosopher
RESOURCES ON OPPRESSION
TEXTS: ON GENRES, MODES, AND MORE
- All Writing is Multimodal (Cheryl Ball and Colin Charlton)
- Multimodal Composition Resources (Ball)
- Micro Fiction (Jerome Stern, editor)
- My Name is Margaret (Maya Angelou)
- Hills Like White Elephants (Ernest Hemingway)
- The Yellow Wall-Paper (Charlotte Perkins Stetson)
- Bullet in the Brain (Tobias Wolff)
- A Fable for the Living (Kevin Brockmeier)
- Redeployment (Phil Klay)
- How to Tame a Wild Tongue (Gloria Anzaldua)
- Borderlands/La Frontera (Gloria Anzaldua)
- The Collected Works of Billy the Kid (Michael Ondaatje)
- Dubliners (James Joyce)
- The Corner Store (Eudora Welty)
- Momma, The Dentist, and Me (Maya Angelou)
- A Good Man is Hard to Find (Flannery O'Connor)
- A Good Man is Hard to Find (Short Story, Flannery O'Connor)
- A Good Man is Hard to Find (Analysis)
- Goodbye to All That (Joan Didion)
- On Self-Respect (Joan Didion)
- Tenth of December (George Saunders)
- The Lottery (Shirley Jackson)
- The Most Dangerous Game (Richard Connell)
- Frank Sinatra Has a Cold (Gay Talese)
- What You Don't Know (Lulu Wang)
REFLECTIVE WRITING