Category: OWL for Educators

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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...

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...

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...

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