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By Dr. Francesco Crocco The Professor’s Perch is a weekly column offering teaching tips for how to use the Excelsior OWL to help students improve their reading and writing skills. Summer is here and...
As a student, I know plagiarism is a big deal to both my instructors and educational institution. One of the ways of avoiding plagiarism is knowing when and how to use quotation marks, along...
Have you ever written a sentence that you thought rambled on too long? Well, you may benefit from learning about run-on sentences in the Excelsior Online Writing Lab. If offers an interactive tutorial on...
Dashes are known as the “super comma” and hyphens are used as a compound modifier and for other uses as well, such as prefixes, suffixes, nouns, letters, and numbers, and clarifying the meaning of...
Did you know sentences fragments are one of the 20 most common errors students make when writing? You might then ask yourself, what exactly is a sentence fragment and how can I avoid making...
I am taking an ethics in communication class this term, and one of the suggestions our instructor has given us is to brush-up on our grammar by using the Excelsior Online Writing Lab’s (OWL)...
I am taking an ethics in communication class this term, and one of the suggestions our instructor has is for us to go onto the OWL and take some grammar refresher courses. Therefore, I...
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...
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...
Pronouns, whether we want to admit it or not, seem to give us a lot of trouble. I find this to be especially true because, in English, we do not have a gender-neutral, singular,...