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...
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The Excelsior OWL Hits Record-Breaking Highs!
September 2018 was the Excelsior OWL’s best month ever! Total users, sessions, and pageviews far surpassed the last record set in October 2017. The total number of users for the month topped 77K, while...
Excelsior Receives a $200,000 Award from Booth Ferris to Create a Center for Writing Excellence
The Booth Ferris Foundation has awarded Excelsior University a $200,000 grant to create a Center for Writing Excellence. The two-year project began on September 1 and will advance the College’s strategic initiative around Writing...
The OWL’s APA Refresher Module Supports Academic Integrity for Health Science Students
by Teri Gergen Less than a minute…that’s how much time attendees are given to scan the round tables and choose a lightning round presentation to attend at the eLearning conference sponsored annually by the Instructional...
Reading for College Success! Using the ORC for an English for Speakers of Other Languages Intermediate Reading Course
by Christie Allred The more I use OER’s (open educational resources), the more I feel better about not only saving students money, but really having up-to-date and reliable textbook sources for students. The Excelsior...
Excelsior OWL Partners with SUNY to Promote Writing Across the Curriculum with Grant Award
The Excelsior OWL and three SUNY colleges—Rockland, Clinton, and Monroe Community Colleges—have received a SUNY Innovative Instruction Transformation Grant (IITG) to advance Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC). The two-year project involves partnering to develop...
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...
The Excelsior OWL Takes the Lead at OLC Innovate
This week, Mark Oppenneer, the Director of Web Services at Excelsior University, will be presenting on the Excelsior OWL at the OLC Innovate 2018 Conference in Nashville, TN. His presentation will focus on innovative...
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...
Excelsior Students Report Widespread Usage and Satisfaction with the Excelsior OWL
In January, Excelsior University ran a student survey to a random selection of enrolled undergraduate students in order to discover what students thought about the Excelsior Online Writing Lab. Overall, the results were...