OWL Tour

Take a virtual tour of OWL and learn about the many parts of our website, which includes handouts, workshops and presentations, Internet resources, and Writing Lab resources.

Online Tutoring

If you have a question that you don't think is covered on our website, or you're working on a project and have some specific questions, you can email our tutoring staff. We'll answer questions about a text's organization, its focus, its readers, and respond to questions about research techniques and mechanics (such as spelling and grammar).

We're glad to respond via email to a question or two from anyone who asks, but, unfortunately, we lack the resources to comment extensively on drafts of papers.

If you'd like to send us a question, please read our policies for online tutoring and then email us at this form.

The Purdue OWL News

The Purdue OWL News is a free weekly email newsletter which contains questions and answers about writing, tips and questions from readers, and information about what's going on in the Writing Lab and on OWL. To sign up for the newsletter, click here. We also have archives of past newsletters available.

History

How OWL got started and how it works now. We also have some pictures of the new OWL office available.

Help for Online Tutors

For online tutors, we offer a small collection of resources (ours and other people's) on effective online tutoring.

Technical information

Information about the machines that make up OWL and the software the staff uses to get work done.

Staff

Meet the people behind the screens.

Statistics

Who uses OWL? Where do they come from? Just how many people visit the website?

Visitors

Read about some of our occasional visitors to the actual location of the Online Writing Lab.

Press and Awards

Articles about OWL and some awards we've received.

Funding

Find out about who supports OWL and how it's funded.