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Purdue OWL News
March 9, 2001

Welcome to the Purdue OWL News! This is an online newsletter about happenings in the Purdue University Writing Lab and the Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL).

Welcome to the Purdue OWL News! This is an online newsletter about happenings in the Purdue University Writing Lab and the Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL). While we recognize that most of you can't visit our lab in person, we'd still like to tell everyone about what's going on in our physical writing lab and our online writing lab, because we see them as a team effort for helping people with their writing. We welcome your suggestions and feedback at owlnews@owl.english.purdue.edu.

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What's Happening In The Writing Lab

OWL Eye on ... Computers

Tired of waiting in line for a computer? The Writing Lab has three Macs and four PCs available for students to use. You don't need an appointment; just come in, fill out a green slip, and use one of our computers to email, print out a paper, FTP to your Career Account,
search the Internet, or work on an essay.

If you're coming in for a tutoring session, you can also bring a disk and work with the tutor on the computer. The tutors also use the
computers to help students with researching the Internet or using THOR (Purdue's library database).

What's New in the Writing Lab

We continue to offer In-Lab Workshops for interested Purdue students, faculty, and staff. Upcoming In-Lab Workshops include the following:

Research Papers: Tuesday, March 20, 4:00 p.m.
MLA Documentation: Wednesday, March 21, 4:00 p.m.

For more information about our In-Lab workshops, visit http://owl.english.purdue.edu/lab/labwrkshps.html.
Teachers of any class at Purdue can also invite a travelling tutor to visit their classes and give workshops as well. For more information about that, please visit our page on in-class workshops at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/lab/workshops.html

What's Happening On OWL

OWL Eye On... Internet Resources

There is a lot of information on the Internet, including many resources about writing. However, sometimes it's hard to find what
you're looking for. You can use the resources in this section to help you learn more about searching the Internet for information and use our collections of writing-related resources for more information about writing.
The resources we link to are divided into the following categories:
Searching The World Wide Web
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/internet/search/index.html
Learn more about how to search the World Wide Web effectively with our
introduction to using search engines, which includes a "hands-on"
section.
Search Engines and Directories
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/internet/tools/index.html
This section provides a quick list of Internet search tools (also called
search engines) and a link to some starting points for Internet
research, organized by category.
Online (Writing) Resources
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/internet/resources/index.html
This is our collection of online resources, many of which relate
specifically to writing.
Other Online Writing Labs
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/internet/owls/index.html
Check out some of the other writing labs on the 'Net.

What's New on OWL

Resources for Teachers

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/internet/resources/teachers.html
This page contains Internet resources for English and writing teachers or for teachers who work with English and writing in their courses.
Help us build this page! We are always looking for links and suggestions: please mail link@owl.english.purdue.edu with any links and categories you'd like to see added!

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APA Handouts Update In Progress

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_apa.html
We've updated our APA style handout and our documenting electronic sources handout to include links to some revisions in the APA guidelines, particularly their guielines for citing electronic sources. We're currently revising this handout, so check back soon for one that incorporates the latest APA guidelines. Until then, you can visit the APA pages and read about them yourself.

We're also pleased to announce that our OWL has been awarded an Editor's Choice award by Awesome Library, loated at http://www.awesomelibrary.org/ Thanks to their Editorial Board!

Final Thoughts

Thanks for reading our newsletter, and thank you to those of you who have been sending us feedback! We really appreciate it.If you'd like to send us some feedback, our inboxes are wide open at owlnews@owl.english.purdue.edu.
You can also email the OWL coordinator, Geoff Stacks, at coordinator@owl.english.purdue.edu and
the webmaster, Erin Karper, at webmaster@owl.english.purdue.edu. (Erin and Geoff take turns writing the newsletter.)

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