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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. You can find an archive of our past changes here. Look for more new developments in the coming year, and thank you for visiting our site!
We have a new PowerPoint presentation
entitled "Field Research: Conducting an Interview" that is designed
to help composition students
conduct field research for their classes available in our PowerPoint presentations
section. Thanks to Brian Yothers for all his hard work on that presentation!
"OWL: Research & The Internet" was reviewed in Barbara J. Feldman "Surfing the Net with Kids" newspaper column on 09/25/2002. "Surfing the Net with Kids" is syndicated by United Feature Syndicate, and appears in many papers across the U.S., including the San Diego Union-Tribune, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Boston Globe.
A list of all materials available in the ESL self-study section of the Writing Lab is now available online. Thanks to Serkan Gorkemli, our ESL coordinator, for compiling this list.
We've updated our APA handout to include pointers to helpful web and print resources on using APA style, and added pointers to specific sections of the Publication Manual to each section.
Now available on the OWL web site: handouts for poets (and those interested in poetry) on image, pattern and variation, and sound and meter, written by Sean M. Conrey.
Due to a campus-wide power outage at Purdue on Friday, the OWL server experienced some problems. Mail to owl.english.purdue.edu addresses was unavailable all weekend. If you sent a question or request to any of the OWL addresses, please re-send your email.
We're thrilled to announce that our OWL has won the ESL Magazine Editor's Choice Award 2002 (Best in Web).
We've added some flyers describing our ESL resources (including conversation groups), and describing all of the resources we have available for teachers to our Writing Lab promotions section. You can download and print these flyers in Adobe Acrobat Reader.
We've added a new handout on writing thesis statements to our growing collection of handouts and materials for teachers and students.
We've re-designed our OWL index to offer you more information about the Writing Lab and all our OWL services right on our main page. Our content and organization haven't changed, though, so all of your favorite handouts, workshops, presentations and resources will be in their usual spaces.
Our OWL tour has also been changed to show the new home page layout.
We're pleased to announce the creation of a site map that lists all pages available on the OWL web site, grouped by category. If you've ever wanted to see a list of absolutely everything available on our OWL, this is the page for you.
We're pleased to announce that our OWL has received the Web Feet Seal of Approval and will appear in Web Feet Guides. For more information, please visit our awards page.
We've updated our bibliography of scholarly work about OWLs to include new resources and fix outdated links. If you're interested in OWL scholarship, you'll find this bibliography a good starting point.
We've added a flyer about our Writing Lab services and hours for Summer 2002 and a flyer about our ESL Conversation Groups during Summer 2002 to our promotional materials page. Please feel free to print and distribute these flyers to your classes.
We've added several new resources to our English as a Second Language (ESL) resources for teachers and English as a Second Language (ESL) resources for students pages. Thanks to all of you who submitted these great links; if you'd like to send us some of your favorite writing or English links, you can email us at link@owl.english.purdue.edu.
We have a new research report workshop available, courtesy of Angela Laflen. This extensive hypertext workshop covers general principles used in writing a research report, which could also be applied to writing certain kinds of technical reports, lab reports, formal reports, or scientific papers.
We've been doing a lot of spring cleaning on the OWL site. We've now fixed broken links on all of our Internet resources pages, our research paper workshop, and our Writing Across the Curriculum pages. We've also added a lot of links to our English as a Second Language resources pages for teachers and students. Visit any of those sections to find lots of helpful resources.
If you have a link that you think would be a good addition to our OWL, please email us at link@owl.english.purdue.edu! As always, if you encounter any additional broken links or problems with the site, please email us at problem@owl.english.purdue.edu.
Would you like flyers, brochures, or other promotional materials about the Writing Lab to distribute to your classes or make available to your staff? In addition to sending materials to Purdue faculty and staff via intercampus mail, we're now making selected promotional materials available for download. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader or Adobe Acrobat to view and print the materials.
We now have printer-friendly and Adobe PDF versions of all of our handouts available. To use these handouts, you can either click on the link to the printer-friendly or PDF version on each handout, or visit our printer-friendly handouts index.
We are hiring a new OWL coordinator for the 2002-2003 academic year. The OWL coordinator position is a 12 month .25 (quarter time) position, open to anyone who is eligible to be a TA at Purdue University. Interested applicants are invited to visit our coordinator application page for more information and to download an application.
Update: We've hired an OWL coordinator and have no graduate assistant positions available at this time.
We have three new exercises and answer keys available: one on Prepositions of Direction:To, On (to), In (to), one on Prepositions of Location: At, In, On, and one on Making Subjects and Verbs Agree. If you'd like printer-friendly versions of them, please visit our printer-friendly handouts section.
We have a new PowerPoint presentation on literary analysis designed to help teachers introduce writing literary analyses to their students. It is ideal for introductory literature courses.
If you're an undergraduate at Purdue University, you can download an application for English 390A and English 390B, courses which prepare you to work with students in the Writing Lab. For more information, visit our English 390 page. Applications are due by February 15th.
We've moved web, mail, and file services for Purdue's OWL to a new server, which will hopefully be more stable, offer better performance, and allow us to implement some interesting new features in the future. Mail, web, and file services were down this afternoon, so if you sent us an email and encountered an error, please try sending it again.
If you need to directly search the Writing Lab Newsletter database, you should now point your browser to http://owl2.english.purdue.edu:591.
If you have our search engine bookmarked, please update your bookmarks to http://owl2.english.purdue.edu:8080.
If you encounter any problems with the site or with sending us mail, you can send mail to problem@owl.english.purdue.edu or to ekarper@purdue.edu.
We have a new handout on resume design available in our professional writing handouts section.
We have a new handout on email etiquette available in our professional writing handouts section.
Our in-lab workshop schedule for the Spring 2002 semester is now available. If you're interested in attending any of our workshops, check it out!
We also have two new PowerPoint presentations on business writing: Email Etiquette, which discusses ways to use email in the workplace and the classroom, and Writing Business Messages, which discusses general strategies for communicating in business writing.
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