Giving A Hoot About Being Duped
How To Use The OWL To Help Students Navigate Source Credibility By Elizabeth Johnson, PhD In 2015, Oxford Dictionaries awarded the term “post truth” as word of the year, defending their choice by arguing...
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Using the Excelsior University Online Writing Lab in the Valencia College West Campus Writing Center
A guest post by Michael Winters At the Valencia College West Campus Writing Center in Orlando, Florida, the Excelsior University Online Writing Lab (OWL) is not only used to help students, but to make...
Spring Is in the Air and the New OWL Has Sprung!
Across the country, spring is blooming. Each morning, one is greeted by birds singing, bees buzzing, trees sprouting new leaves, flowers budding, and the grass growing longer and greener. Spring provides the world with...
Of OWLs and Students: Making the Most of the Excelsior University Online Writing Lab
The semester is winding down and your term paper is due in less than a week, but you have no idea how to write one! Sound familiar? No problem. Excelsior University offers a nationally-acclaimed, free resource for...
Write on Nurses!
A guest post by Bonny Kehm, PhD, RN Writing is an expectation in nursing. There are a variety of different types of writing used by nurses, from writing patient reports and charts, to writing...
The OWL: A Resource on Our Side
The OWL was built for students. In this interview, find out how the OWL is a resource that’s on your side.
How Academic Writing Transfers to Workplace Writing
Each semester, as I wrap up my writing course at Excelsior, I ask my students an important question to consider: How does the writing you have done in this course translate into writing skills...
Replacing Your Writing Textbook
Open Educational Resources can be a little daunting for teachers. It’s hard to know what’s out there, and once you figure that out, it’s hard to know how to use the resources. If you’re...
Pronoun Agreement and the Singular They
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,...
Rhetoric and Your Writing: An Introduction
Have you ever heard the phrase “empty rhetoric?” This phrase certainly carries negative connotation; however, rhetoric is anything but empty. But what exactly does rhetoric mean? And how can it help you? Rhetoric is...