Teaching Links, Ideas, & Whatnot

Accessibility & Visualization

• Trying to Reason with an Accessibility Overlay Company
• Accessibility Guidelines Example: Vox
• The No-Mouse Challenge
• Chartability: Testing for Data Visualizations
• "Don't Forget to Localize Your Icons!"
• Contrast Checker
• Writing Alt Text for Data Visualizations
• Alt Text for Images in Technical Writing
• Accessibility and Tech Writing
• "Five Most Annoying Website Features I Face as a Blind Person Every Day"
• Why & How to Create Accessible Social Media
• Alt Text As Poetry
• How to Write Alt Text and Image Descriptions (Alt Text Capybara!)
• Design Justice

General, FYC, & Adjacent

• CCCC Teaching Resources for Writing Instructors
• Writing in Class to Avoid Stress & AI Reliance
• Low Stakes Writing Assignments
• College Writing Clinic's Basic Plan for Every Class Day
• CLiPS: Communication Learning in Practice for Scientists
• Resources for Image Searching to Avoid AI Slop
• Public Work Image Search
• Oregon Humanities' Dear Stranger (assignment idea)
• UCLA's Writing Instruction resource page
• Activities on Writing Details & Descriptions
• UCONN's FYC Assignment & Activities pages
• SDSU: What Is Rhetoric?
• Reading Analysis: Quoting, Summarizing, and Paraphrasing (OER)
• Analyzing Content and Rhetoric (OER)
• Sharing and Reviewing (OER)
• Setting Goals for Your Writing Practice (OER)
• Appealing to Your Audience
• Discourse Communities
• Intro to College Reading
• Writing As Inquiry (w/triangle)
• Writing in College from Competence to Excellence (OER)
• How Arguments Work (OER)
• The Word on College Reading and Writing (OER)
• Really? Writing? Again? (OER)
• I-Search Essay Guidelines/Instructions
• I-Search Essay Assignment Guide
• I-Search Assignment with examples
• I-Search Reflection Table
• Sample I-Search unit
• Academic Phrasebank

Documentation & Tech Writing

• Draw a Basic Flow Chart in IO
• I'd Like to Write the World Some Docs
• Software Documentation in Seven Readable Steps
• Basic User Documentation
• How to Write API Documentation
• Co-cultures & Values Framing
• Make a User Persona in Three Steps
• How to Define a User Persona
• Basic Writing and Formatting Syntax
• Hilarious Embroidery Instructions: The Danger of Bad Web Design(context)
• UML Basics
• Best Practices for Diagrams in Software Documentation
• Six Tips When Writing for a Global Audience
• Localization, Global Writing, and Metaphor
• The Side Eye: The Stink A
• Accessibility for Web Devs
• Nine Ways to Boost Internal Communication/Email Open Rates
• How to Write Test Docs
• The Documentation Review Process
• Incentive Charts: Samples and Examples
• How to Write an Instruction Manual
• Finji vs. Racist AI
• InformIT articles on genAI and etc.
• Job Market Hell: genAI
• How to Research a Company for a Job Interview
• The Ladder of Abstraction
• Technical & Professional Writing (OER)