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Using OWL in English 106 and English 108

Since all sections of English 106 and English 108 will be spending one day per week in the computer lab, OWL will be a more convenient and useful teaching tool than ever before. Below are some suggestions about how OWL can be incorporated into each of the sample syllabi that have been developed for English 106. You might also find our index of teaching resources to be useful as well. For further information about using the Writing Lab and OWL in your English 106 and 108 courses, please e-mail our English 106 Coordinator, Deb Huffman, at engl106@owl.english.purdue.edu. (Ms. Huffman will not answer general writing-related questions -- if you have those, please e-mail the tutors at this form.)

"You Are Here"

This course includes a strong emphasis on multi-media and web resources as well as rhetorical positioning, so the resources we've placed here are slanted toward these emphases.

PowerPoint Presentations

• Understanding Writing: The Rhetorical Situation
• Research and the Internet
• Finding Your Focus: The Writing Process
  

Handouts

• Productive Web Searches
• Searching the World Wide Web
• Evaluating Sources of Information
• Writing with Computers
  

"Writing Your Way into Purdue"

Since this course emphasizes investigating the Purdue community, we've suggested resources that can help with field research and other forms of local research and writing.

PowerPoint Presentations

• Field Research: Conducting an Interview
• Email Etiquette

Hypertext workshop

• Research Report Workshop
  

Handouts

• Annotated Bibliographies
• Using Statistics
  

"Rhetorical Situations, 'Real' Texts"

Again, the emphasis on rhetoric and finding concrete, "real world" texts guides our suggestions

PowerPoint Presentation

• Understanding Writing: The Rhetorical Situation
  

Handouts

• Planning (Invention)
• Argumentation/Persuasion: Logic in Argumentative Writing
  

"Academic Writing"

Here, the emphasis on research and documentation suggested by the course means that our many research-related resources will be very helpful.

PowerPoint Presentations

• Organizing Your Argument
• Using THOR
• Cross-referencing: Using MLA Format
• Documenting Sources: Using APA Format
• Research and the Internet
  

Hypertext Workshops

• Research Paper Workshop
• Evaluating Sources
• Searching the Web
  

"ESL Writing"

Handouts

We have a huge number of handouts devoted to specifically ESL concerns. The index for these handouts is located at
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/index.html
This index includes handouts on topics ranging from common grammar and punctuation problems to the more rhetorical concerns of writing for an American academic audience.

This list is far from exhaustive. All sections of English 106 can benefit from the following resources:

Handouts on editing, proofreading, and revision
Handouts on paragraphing, sentence structure, and organization
Handouts on a wide range of grammatical concerns
PowerPoints on comma usage and sentence clarity

You may also want to consider the Writing Business Messages handout, which might seem a bit counterintuitive for a first-year composition course, but contains a strong emphasis on the rhetorical nature of a very "real world" writing situation.

PowerPoint Presentations

• Writing the Literary Analysis
  (This PowerPoint may be useful if you employ close analysis of texts as part of your course.)

Compiled February 3, 2003, by Brian Yothers

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