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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).
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Here’s our grammar question of the week, brought to you by the Online Tutors here at Purdue.
When do you use the word "whom" as opposed to "who?"
This is something that trips up lots of writers. Simply stated, you use "whom"
when the pronoun is occupying a position in the sentence that is in the objective
case. Objective case includes objects of a preposition (to whom), direct objects
(You hit whom?), and
indirect objects (I should give whom the invitation?). "Who" is used
in the subjective case: the subject of a sentence (Who is there?) and the predicate
nominative (This is how I came to be who I am today.).
You really need to know your parts of speech in order to know when to use who
or whom, which is why so many people use it incorrectly. And there’s no
better place to learn about parts of speech than at the Writing Lab!
Finishing your last research paper? Writing the big final project for a class in your major? Trying to get your resume into shape before summer job-hunting? The Writing Lab can help you with all of these projects, and any other kind of writing you might be doing before you head out the door for the summer. Give us a call at 494-3723 to make an appointment for a free half-hour tutorial. You can also drop by Heavilon 226 to see if we have any drop-in appointments left.
We also are offering our last In-Lab Workshop of the year, which will be on
Sentence Clarity and Combining, at 4 pm on Monday, April 23rd. Don’t miss
out!
We’ll be open during Maymester and during the summer, so if you’re
going to be around campus this summer, stop by and see us!
Many students are writing research papers at this time of year. Did you know that OWL has a whole handouts section on research? (Even if you’re not writing a research paper, you still might want to check out some of our research tips!) Visit our research handouts section at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/index.html.
We also have a hypertext tutorial on writing research papers that guides you
through getting started to proofreading your final draft at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/hypertext/ResearchW/index.html
For those of you who are teaching the research process, we have some PowerPoint
presentations on various aspects of doing research including Internet research
and documenting sources at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/pp/index.html#research
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We’ve added more shots of the Writing Lab to our rotating picture gallery on the main index. Reload to see some new faces!
We’re currently developing a virtual tour of the Writing Lab to complement
our virutal tour of OWL! Watch for it soon.
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Thanks for reading our newsletter, and please email us any suggestions you might have for the newsletter! We really enjoy hearing from our readers. You can mail us at any time 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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