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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. Every semester, invariably I come across students who...
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...
As promised, here is the sequel to the Only You Can Prevent Plagiarism I, where I will take the rest of the tutorials offered by the Excelsior Online Writing Lab covering Summarizing & Plagiarism,...
As I mentioned in the quotation blog post, Quote Your Quotes, plagiarism is serious, but you do not have to take my word for it. The Excelsior Online Writing Lab has several tutorials dedicated...
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...
I have had to do annotated bibliographies for the last two courses I have taken at Excelsior, therefore I thought it would be helpful to provide a blog regarding the annotated bibliography resource the...
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...
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...
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...