What are Writing Widgets?

The Writing Program has developed a set of tools to help you develop your critical thinking. These tools are designed to be ripped and placed wherever you live and learn on the Web.

The current set have been collected using a site called Pageflakes.

The tools are designed to meet the needs of a wide range of learning styles.  The current widgets include: Instructional videos Interactive text Sample paper assignments

Any of the widgets from The Topoi Widget pageflake can be taken as well.    Just sign up for an account to access and copy any of the widgets.

Student-Built Widgets

(Featured at Teaching With Technology 2009)

Writing Process: How to Cure Writer's Block

Rhetorical Devices: Do you Have MagicSpeech?

Voice: The Wheel of Moody Voices

These tools were built by USC undergraduates as part of Writing 340.  The widgets are in their alpha release.

Steal this Widget

[Note: Embed "The Topoi Widget" here - here is the code and the link. - http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/topoi

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codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="200px" height="343px"
id="InsertWidget_22590edf-57b0-44ce-ba15-d465c764f99a"
align="middle"><param name="movie"
value="http://widgetserver.com/syndication/flash/wrapper/InsertWidget.swf"/><param
name="quality" value="high" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent"
/><param name="menu" value="false" /><param name="flashvars"
value="r=2&appId=22590edf-57b0-44ce-ba15-d465c764f99a" /><param
name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" /> <embed
src="http://widgetserver.com/syndication/flash/wrapper/InsertWidget.swf"
 name="InsertWidget_22590edf-57b0-44ce-ba15-d465c764f99a"
width="200px" height="343px" quality="high" menu="false"
pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent"
align="middle"  allowScriptAccess="sameDomain"
flashvars="r=2&appId=22590edf-57b0-44ce-ba15-d465c764f99a" /></object>


Future widgets will include additional sets of tools designed around the lessons we emphasize in our writing classes.