Our APA Survey Results
Over the last year, the staff at the OWL conducted a survey to assess the effectiveness of our APA section. We received over 2,000 responses to our short questionnaire. Thank you to everyone who...
Category: APA Advice
Intern’s Corner: Annotated Bibliography
I have had to do annotated bibliographies for the last two courses I have taken at Excelsior, therefore I thought it would be helpful to provide a blog regarding the annotated bibliography resource the...
“Why Don’t We Have Both?” Using the OWL’s APA and MLA Citation Materials
Written by Jason Brown, Assistant Professor of English at Herkimer County Community College As this spring semester draws to a close, my writing students are just beginning the task of composing an argumentative/persuasive research...
Intern’s Corner: Referencing and Citing Sources Part IV: APA Style
This is the fourth installment of the referencing and citing sources series. In this series, I provide tips for using the OWL to help you locate the necessary information for citing your sources. The...
How to Use the OWL as an OER Primary Text in Different Types of Writing Classes
by Elizabeth Johnston When I first started teaching English 101 twenty years ago at West Virginia University, I used a reader and what probably amounted to an unofficial OER—a binder of resources created for...
OWL Success Stories: How the OWL Helps Health Sciences Keep Their Writing in Shape
In this series of articles, the Excelsior University Online Writing Lab (OWL) team interviews students and instructors about the OWL and finds out more about how this unique platform provides an invaluable resource to...
In-Text Citing in APA Format
If you are new to APA, or even if you are not so new, you may be wondering about how to create those in-text citations and parenthetical references in ways that adhere to APA...