The Purdue OWL News http://owl.english.purdue.edu/purdueowlnews/ The Purdue OWL News is an online newsletter addressing readers' writing-related questions and covering events in the Purdue University Writing Lab and the Online Writing Lab at Purdue (Purdue OWL). Sun, 8 Nov 2009 02:32:14 -0500 Copyright 1995-2008 by The Writing Lab, The OWL at Purdue, and Purdue University. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, reproduced, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed without permission. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/purdueowlnews/snippets/owleye200b.gif The Purdue OWL News http://owl.english.purdue.edu/purdueowlnews/ en-us MLA and APA Update Reminder for October 28, 2009 http://owl.english.purdue.edu/purdueowlnews/580#special_announcement http://owl.english.purdue.edu/purdueowlnews1 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:10:42 -0400 Special Announcement
MLA and APA Update Reminder
By Allen Brizee

OWL staff would like to remind our users that all OWL resources (web pages, PDF samples, and PowerPoint presentations) are updated and correct, reflecting the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (7th ed.) and the MLA Style Manual and Guide to..

]]> Purdue OWL Grammar and Mechanics Exercises for October 28, 2009 http://owl.english.purdue.edu/purdueowlnews/580#special_announcement http://owl.english.purdue.edu/purdueowlnews2 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:10:42 -0400 Special Announcement
Purdue OWL Grammar and Mechanics Exercises
By Allen Brizee

The OWL staff is very happy to announce the posting of the redesigned and corrected Purdue OWL Grammar and Mechanics Exercises. For the past year and a half, we have been working on updating the OWL page design and OWL navigation based on our OWL Usa..

]]> Computers and Writing 2010 to be Hosted at Purdue for October 28, 2009 http://owl.english.purdue.edu/purdueowlnews/580#feature_story http://owl.english.purdue.edu/purdueowlnews3 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:10:42 -0400 Feature Story
Computers and Writing 2010 to be Hosted at Purdue
By Allen Brizee

The OWL is happy to announced that the 2010 Computers and Writing (C&W) conference will be hosted at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, USA, from May 20 - 23, 2010. The online C&W conference will run from April 15 - May 13, 2010. T..

]]> Old OWL Retired for October 28, 2009 http://owl.english.purdue.edu/purdueowlnews/580#feature_story http://owl.english.purdue.edu/purdueowlnews4 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:10:42 -0400 Feature Story
Old OWL Retired
By Allen Brizee

OWL staff would like to remind our users that the old OWL has been retired and that users may access the new OWL here:http://owl.english.purdue.edu/If you are having problems finding resources, please reference our new Site Map:http://owl.english.pur..

]]> Purdue Writing Lab - A Space for Writing Workshops - And Haiku Events for October 28, 2009 http://owl.english.purdue.edu/purdueowlnews/580#news_from_the_purdue_writing_lab http://owl.english.purdue.edu/purdueowlnews5 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:10:42 -0400 News from the Purdue Writing Lab
Purdue Writing Lab - A Space for Writing Workshops - And Haiku Events
By Allen Brizee

The Purdue Writing Lab hosted a haiku writing event to celebrate the National Day on Writing (http://www.ncte.org/dayonwriting) on Tuesday, October 20. Haiku are three-line poems that contain five, seven, and five syllables per line, respectively.Pur..

]]> New and Updated Purdue OWL Resources for October 28, 2009 http://owl.english.purdue.edu/purdueowlnews/580#news_from_the_purdue_owl http://owl.english.purdue.edu/purdueowlnews6 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:10:42 -0400 News from the Purdue OWL
New and Updated Purdue OWL Resources
By Allen Brizee

The OWL staff is happy to announce the completion of the following resources:MLA Classroom Poster: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/17/APA Classroom Poster: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/Exercises: http://owl.english..

]]> Final OWL Redesign for October 28, 2009 http://owl.english.purdue.edu/purdueowlnews/580#news_from_the_purdue_owl http://owl.english.purdue.edu/purdueowlnews7 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:10:42 -0400 News from the Purdue OWL
Final OWL Redesign
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The OWL staff is happy to announce that we are close to completing the redesign of the OWL. In the next couple months, the "orange" OWL launched in 2006 will be completed and shift from this design:http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/to a page design a..

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