Less Is More When Grading Papers
For many instructors, grading papers can be a tedious task. Do you ever tire of underlining comma splices or circling misplaced modifiers? Do you wonder how you will ever teach your students about subject-verb...
Category: OWL for Educators
Embedding APA Refresher Content in an Online Orientation Course
Written by Teri Gergen, EdD, OTR/L An essential feature of any institution of higher learning is a commitment to maintaining an atmosphere of intellectual integrity and academic honesty. Health science students are expected to...
Excelsior OWL Educator Resources Gets a Major Update!
While the Excelsior OWL is better known for its award-winning open-access writing and reading resources for students, the OWL also offers an extensive library of resources for the many educators who patron the OWL...
“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...
Taking Flight with OER
Written by Christie Allred, Professor at San Diego Mesa College Last summer, I made a commitment to Equity by using only OER (Online Educational Resources) in my composition classes. In the community colleges, some...
Intern’s Corner: Referencing and Citing Sources Part I: Print Books
Conducting research on topics and then citing and referencing those sources you worked so hard to locate can be a little daunting. As students, we want to ensure we provide the best citations and...
Intern’s Corner: Generating a Thesis Sentence and Working Thesis
This week I am focusing on a thesis statement for my final project in a business class I am taking. Just like the OWL states, “the thesis sentence is the key to most academic...
Excelsior OWL Users Double in One Year!
From 2017-2018, the total number of people using the Online Writing Lab more than doubled! In 2018, the OWL logged 535,642 users, a 102% increase from the previous year. Total sessions also doubled by...
Fall 2018 OWL Newsletter
A Birds-Eye View Welcome to the first quarterly newsletter for the Excelsior OWL! The fall is traditionally a time for harvesting the crops that have been sown and tended during the year. The OWL...
Compare and Contrast Essay: Beyond Similarities and Differences
By Jason Brown When students end up in my Freshmen Composition course, I find that many of them come in with the expectation that I will tell them what to write (in terms of...