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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). Wešre always glad to hear from you at owlnews@owl.english.purdue.edu! In this newsletter, wešre including some questions from some of our readers for you to answer. Wešll publish your answers and suggestions in next weekšs newsletter!
Herešs our grammar question of the week, brought to you by the Online Writing Lab Tutors here at Purdue. You can send mail to the online tutors at this form.
1.I want to express that somebody always receive many kinds of information (about the society or people's life) from his/her young age time to old age time by using (reading newspapers or radio continuously) some medias. Then, can I say "she/he keeps (is) informative forever by reading newspaper continuously."?
2. can you indicate the grammar-written mistakes in my letter to you? Especially, I am not sure if the 'young/old age time' and 'Using the medias' were used rightly?
Herešs the answer.
I think it might be better to say "from youth to old age" instead of "young age time to old age time." Also, "media" is the plural of "medium" - it's a Latin word. So "medias" is incorrect.
Instead of saying "keeps informative," I might say "remains informed" And "continuously" is a little too strong. That means that someone would constantly be reading the newspaper 24 hours a day. It might be better to say "regularly" instead of "continuously."
So, a corrected version of the first paragraph might say: I want to express that somebody always receives many kinds of information (about society or people's life) from youth to old age by using (reading newspapers or listening to the radio regularly) some media.. Then, can I say "she/he remains informed forever by reading the newspaper regularly."?
Got a question about some aspect of your writing? Want some advice about a persistent issue that crops up every time you compose? Send the OWL News staff an email at owlnews@owl.english.purdue.edu and we"ll feature them in our newsletter!
Many of our readers write to us with questions or requests for help with their writing. Readers also write to us with suggestions about how to help people learn more about writing. In this section of the newsletter, wešll try to bring together both the people looking for help and the people who can help them.
Each week wešll publish a request for advice or information. If you have information or advice about this topic, please write to us at owlnews@owl.english.purdue.edu. Please let us know if you want us to include your name and/or your email address when we publish your information or advice. The following week, wešll publish the best information and advice that we receive in the newsletter.
If you have a request for help and information, you can send it to us at owlnews@owl.english.purdue.edu and wešll try to include it in the newsletter as soon as possible.
Herešs our first request, which is drawn from a lot of the emails wešve received.
English is my second language and I have a lot of problems learning it. I am looking for material that can help me become a better reader, writer, and speaker of English. What advice do you have for me?
Got some help for our readers? Send it to owlnews@owl.english.purdue.edu. Your advice and information about this will appear in next weekšs newsletter.
Are you looking for a job or an internship? Whether itšs your first position or your tenth, itšs important to be able to tailor your resume to what an employer is looking for. If youšre from another country and looking for a job in the United States, itšs important to understand the differences between what US employers look for in a resume and what people in your country look for.
We have an entire section of handouts in our professional writing section devoted to learning all about how to construct a resume that will get you the position you want. The handouts include advice on how to gather information for your resume, samples of traditional and scannable resumes, and lists of action words to use in your resume. You can view all of these handouts as well as related professional writing documents at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/pw/
We also have a hypertext resume workshop at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/hypertext/ResumeW/index.html
Finally, we have lots of PowerPoint presentations that cover general issues about resumes, developing a solid resume, scannable resumes, and cover letters at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/pp/index.html#business
Wešre pleased to announce that the Purdue OWL will be partnering with the Purdue Library system to offer information and handouts about using the Purdue library catalog system.
Help us make the OWL more useful for you! Send us your favorite writing-related, learning-related and teaching related-links for inclusion in our Internet resources section. To submit links, please send mail to link@owl.english.purdue.edu
Did you know that the Writing Lab can offer workshops to any class or campus group about a variety of writing-related topics? We can come and give presentations on anything from comma usage to developing a resume. If youšre looking for some educational opportunities for your class or campus group, a Writing Lab workshop is a great opportunity.
For more about our workshops, visit http://owl.english.purdue.edu/lab/workshops.html
While not necessarily new, we always have tutorials with our helpful and friendly tutors, as well as computers for public use, places to study, ESL self-study software on tapes and CD-ROMs, and animal crackers.
Thanks for reading our newsletter, and please email us any suggestions you might have! 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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