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This page will provide updates about what's new or what's changed at Purdue's OWL. If you want to send us comments, please visit our contact information page.
We have a handout on terms and tips for international students searching for jobs in the United States available in our professional writing section.
Because of an increase in the volume of mail the online tutors receive, they will no longer be able to answer questions about APA and MLA format. You can read more at the Online Tutoring Policies page.
We have a new section on using the Writing Lab and OWL for teachers, which includes strategies for introducing the Writing Lab and OWL and information about incorporating the Writing Lab and OWL into various courses. If you're a teacher, check it out and let us know what you think!
We are pleased to announce that an updated version of our very popular American Psychological Association (APA) style handout is now available. This handout has been updated to reflect all of the changes made in the 5th edition of the APA Publication Manual, and includes some new information.
A searchable webbed database of all Writing Lab Newsletter articles through June of 2001 is now available. The database now includes page numbers, which will make it easier to retrieve articles from our archive of past issues.
We apologize for the recent OWL downtime. Our server has been having problems; we hope that an upgrade applied this afternoon will help to correct these problems and ensure that the server has more constant uptime.
Please let us know if you notice web or mail problems related to the upgrade; email problem@owl.english.purdue.edu or ekarper@purdue.edu.
The APA has released a new edition of their publication manual, so we have
updated the APA PowerPoint presentation to reflect those changes. You can download
the presentation here:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/pp/index.html#research
The Purdue OWL staff, Writing Lab staff, and the entire Purdue community has reacted in shock, disbelief, and mounting sadness to news of the horrific events unfolding on the East Coast of the United States. In order to help, we've made links to the Red Cross online donation forms and the Amazon.com donation page (which funnels all money to the Red Cross) on our main OWL page and on this page. The Red Cross is also urgently in need of blood and medical supplies.
Our thoughts and wishes are with everyone affected by this horrible series
of events.
The Writing Lab offers in-lab workshops on a variety of writing topics. You can now view our Fall 2001 workshop schedule and set aside time to come join us to learn more about all aspects of the writing process.
We had a power outage that interrupted our network access, leaving our OWL unavailable for about half an hour this afternoon. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please let us know if you encounter any problems.
Check out our brand new handout on the basics of annotated bibliographies. We've even included a sample.
We're attempting to correct some serious problems with our mail server. Right now, mail service works, including mail to the online tutoring address. However, if further problems arise, we may have to shut our mail server off again in order to ensure network security. If mail to any address @owl.english.purdue.edu should start bouncing, you can contact the webmaster at ekarper@purdue.edu or the coordinator at gstacks@purdue.edu.
We thank you for your patience as we work to resolve these problems and to catch up with the accumulated mail.
Our mail server is down until August 20th. If there is a problem with the site, you can contact the webmaster at ekarper@purdue.edu or the coordinator at gstacks@purdue.edu
We are also unable to receive any mail sent to the online tutors.
We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience
This eighteen-part workshop explains how to develop a cover letter to accompany your resume when seeking a specific position. It covers what you should know before writing a cover letter, ways to develop your cover letter, and formatting concerns. It also includes examples.
This workshop was written by Adam Oldaker.
A revised version of our Using THOR Powerpoint presentation, which covers searching the Purdue Library System catalogs and indexes, is now available. The presentation has been updated to reflect changes in the THOR interface and search methods. If you were using the old presentation, download a copy of the new one to see what's changed. If you're looking to learn (or teach) the THOR system, check it out!
We have updated the OWL News Archive. You can now read all of the back issues of our weekly newsletter at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/lab/owl/owlnews/index.html.
We have a new handout available on business letter basics courtesy of Angela Laflen. Thanks, Angela!
We experienced some sort of power outage this weekend that outlasted our uninterruptable power supply and the server had to be re-started. We apologize if this caused any inconvenience. Please let us know if you ever have trouble with our site: problem@owl.english.purdue.edu.
We're extremely pleased to announce that you can now read the first twenty volumes of the Writing Lab Newsletter online. The Writing Lab Newsletter has been one of two major fora for exchanging ideas and information about writing centers for over twenty years, and we're pleased to be able to offer you the ability to read and print the articles from the web, as well as offering a searchable index of articles that you can cross-reference with our list of online volumes.
We have revised two of our handouts about prepositions, Prepositions of Location and Prepositions of Direction, and added illustrations drawn by Michelle Hansard. If you've ever wanted to know more about how prepositions work in the English language, these are the handouts for you.
We have revised and updated our professional writing handouts section to include new and revised handouts on many different topics related to professional writing, including resumes, employment letters, audience and tone in business writing, and much, much more!
Kudos to our spectacular business writing staff for their great work!
ListBot is no longer providing a free mailing list service, so we have relocated the Purdue OWL News to Topica. If you are currently a member of the Purdue OWL News mailing list, we will transfer your subscription to the new list. If you aren't a member of the list, please join us for weekly tips and updates!
We're pruning the dead links from our Internet resources section and our English as a Second Language (ESL)section. If you haven't visited them before, stop by and find lots of great links to helpful information!
We've created a new handout with resources on documenting sources in a variety of disciplines, and we've substantially revised our documenting electronic sources handout. Both now include many resources about documenting both print and electronic sources in a variety of disciplines.
We've updated our handout on adjectives or adverbs and our handout on appositives to include new graphics and revised content.
We're pleased to announce that our OWL has won the Writing Tips Award from Edit Avenue. Thanks to them for recognizing our site!
We've revised our handout on using statistics to make it easier to read, and have added new graphs and charts to illustrate its contents.
We've added some more links to our ESL pages that contain good resources for both teachers and students.
You can now take a virtual tour of our writing lab. Follow Craig, a Purdue student, as he learns all about what the Writing Lab has to offer.
We're pleased to announce that a new PowerPoint presentation on scannable resumes has been added to our PowerPoint presentations section. Anyone working on a resume, and people teaching others about writing resumes, should find this presentation useful. Check it out!
We've changed the way in which our server handles PowerPoint files. If you encounter any problems downloading a PowerPoint file, please let us know at problem@owl.english.purdue.edu -- please include the name of the file you were downloading, the browser you were using, and the operating system you were running.
Internet Explorer users please note: clicking on a Powerpoint link may cause it to download and display in your browser. If you just want to save a presentation for later, right click on the link and select "Save target as..." to download the file.
We had to switch the IP address that owl.english.purdue.edu uses, so if you're having some trouble getting to OWL in the next day or so, it's because your DNS server may not have updated yet. Once the new address propagates to the whole world, everything should be fine. If you have any other problems related to the site, please send email to problem@owl.english.purdue.edu.
We've added some links to our ESL student resources section and our teacher resources section and added HTML versions of the Purdue OWL News for the past three weeks.
We've added a new teaching resources page to our Internet resources section, and we'd like any and all teachers to submit links and category suggestions.
We've updated our APA style handout and our documenting electronic sources handout to include links to some revisions in the APA guidelines, particularly their guidelines for citing electronic sources. We're currently revising this handout, so check back soon for one that incorporates the latest APA guidelines. Until then, you can visit the APA pages and read about them yourself.
We're also pleased to announce that our OWL has been awarded an Editor's Choice award by Awesome Library. Thank you!
We've just added a new resume sample to our ever-increasing professional writing section. The sample is designed to give you ideas on format to use for your own resume. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/pw/p_ressample.html
The machine that does web, file, and mail services for OWL and the Writing Lab Newsletter was down briefly so we could install more memory in it. If you notice any problems, please email problem@owl.english.purdue.edu and we'll get right on it.
We've just added a new handout to our ever-increasing professional writing section. The new handout asks questions and gives tips to help you develop the best objective statement for your resume. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/pw/p_objective.html
If you're signed up on our mailing list, you should have received the first issue of the Purdue OWL News. If you didn't sign up and would like to read the first newsletter, you can read it here. We'll be putting out a new one every week, so sign up today!
We've added the web server usage statistics for January. If you haven't signed up for the Purdue OWL News, our weekly online newsletter that gives you updates about the Writing Lab and OWL as well as ways to use OWL in your classes and work, there's still time to do it before the first newsletter comes out! You can visit http://purdueowlnews.listbot.com or use the subscribe box at the bottom of this page.
We have a new PowerPoint presentation available on using THOR, the web interface to the Purdue library catalog and electronic indexes. Students and teachers at Purdue will find it a helpful resource.
You can now sign up to receive the Purdue OWL News, a weekly email newsletter that will give updates on what's new on our OWL and what's going on in our Writing Lab. To sign up, please visit http://purdueowlnews.listbot.com or use the subscribe box on our home page.
We'd like to thank the 828 people who completed our OWL survey. We're currently in the process of analyzing the data. For those of you who wanted to be added to an email list, we will be making an announcement about that very soon.
We've updated the technical information page to give a bit more information about how our OWL works. If you've been wondering what we use to create and maintain the site, check it out! If you have other questions about how the site works, please email us and we'd be glad to answer them.
Information about our in-lab workshops and our in-class workshops for Spring Semester 2001 is now available.
OWL was down due to some server problems -- this included the website and mail services. Everything should be working now, but if it isn't, please send mail to problem@owl.english.purdue.edu with a description of the problem.
The web use statistics for December 2000 and Fall Semester 2000 (August-December 2000) are now available.
Look for more new developments in the coming year, and thank you for visiting our site!
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