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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). We're always glad to hear from you at owlnews@owl.english.purdue.edu!
Here's our writing question of the week, brought to you by the Online Writing Lab Tutors here at Purdue.
When do I use advise or advice in a sentence?
Here's the answer.
Advise is a verb that means to recommend, suggest, or counsel. You will use advise in a sentence when you need to use a verb to express that you are recommending, counseling, or giving advice to someone.
For example: My professor advised me to sign up for a new history course being offered next spring.
Advice is a noun that means an opinion, counsel, or recommendation about what could or should be done about a situation or problem. You will use advice in a sentence when you need a noun to indicate a recommendation, suggestion, or counsel.
For example: I followed my professor's advice and signed up for the new history course being offered next spring.
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, we'll try to bring together both the people looking for help and the people who can help them.
Each week we'll 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, we'll publish the best information and advice that we receive in the newsletter.
Here's our request for this week.
As a teacher of ESL how can I explain the difference between say and tell?
Got some help for our readers? Send it to owlnews@owl.english.purdue.edu. Your advice and information about this will appear in next week's newsletter. Got a question for our readers? Send it to us at owlnews@owl.english.purdue.edu and we'll try to include it in the newsletter as soon as possible.
As people return to school, so do people return to writing research papers. We have a lot of handouts that can help you write a research paper, and a research paper workshop that will help you work through the many parts of the process involved in writing a research paper.
Research Paper Workshop http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/hypertext/ResearchW/index.html An extensive workshop that takes you through the stages of developing a research paper: invention, theses, sources, drafting, revising, and editing. Includes an excellent set of online resources to aid your research. When You Start to Write http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_plan2.html
Developing an Outline http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_outlin.html
Annotated Bibliographies http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_annotatedbib.html
Paraphrasing Sources http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_paraphr.html
Evaluating Sources of Information http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_evalsource.html
Editing and Proofreading Strategies for Revision http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_edit.html
If you are a Purdue student, and English is not your first language, and you would like the opportunity to practice speaking and listening to English in a group lead by a Writing Lab tutor, come to one of our Conversation Groups!
Conversation groups meet on Wednesdays and Thursdays from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. and are made up of small groups of international students who would like to practice their English in an informal setting. Writing Lab tutors act as facilitators for the groups.
Come and join us! Just stop by the Writing Lab at 4 p.m. on either Wednesday or Thursday.
In the next week, we will be offering the following In-Lab Workshops:
Cover Letters
Tuesday, September 25, 3:00 p.m.
Using THOR
Thursday, September 27, 4:00 p.m.
In-Lab workshops are located in the Writing Lab, which is in Heavilon Hall in room 226. Stop by and see us any time.
This fall, as always, we will have tutorials, workshops for classes, reference materials and handouts, computers and printers for student use, ESL self-study materials, bookmarks, quiet places to study, and a helpful and friendly staff. Stop by and see us and get a free Writing Lab pencil!
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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