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These presentations were funded by a grant from the Multimedia Instructional Development Cent er (MIDC) at Purdue University.
The Purdue University OWL now offers instructors a selection of interactive PowerPoint presentations on a variety of writing-related topics to be used for class workshops. Each presentation is designed to provide instructors with information about the elements of wri ting while allowing them to initiate student participation and discussion, adjust their comments to the specifics of class projects, and progress through the program at their own desired pace. Each presentation also contains facilitator notes, de signed to aid instructors through discussion of each topic, and references to supplemental handouts from OWL.
These workshops are designed with the intent of achieving several goals for both instruct ors and students:
These workshops encourage students to view the writing experience as an active decision-m aking process. In order to download and present this material successfully, please read our instructions for using and downloading the presentations.
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Writing Skills ||Research and Documentation St yles || Grammar and Mechanics || Business/ Professional Writing || Agricultural Economics/Cooperative Extension
Understanding Writing: The Rhetorical Situation
This presentation is designed to introduce your students to a variety of factors that contribute to strong, well-organiz ed writing. This presentation is suitable for the beginning of a composition course or the assignment of a writing project in any class. (Writer and Designer: Jennifer Liethen Kunka)Finding Your Focus: The Writin g Process
This presentation acquaints your students with the steps that constitute the writing process, including strategies for brainstorming, drafting, revising, and proofreading. This presentation would work well for the beginning of a composition course or the assignment of a writing project in any class. (Writer and Designer: Jennifer Liethen Kunka)Organizing Your Argument
This presentation reviews the elements of an organiz ed essay, including the introduction, the thesis, body paragraphs, topic sentences, counterarguments, and the conclusion. The twenty-one slides presented here are designed to aid the facilitator in an interactive presentation about construc ting a well-organized argument. This presentation is ideal for the introduction of argument to a composition course, the beginning of a research unit, or the assignment of a written argument. (Writer and Designer: Jennifer Liethen Kunka)Visual Rhetoric for Student Writers
This presentation will teach students the fundamentals of visual rhetoric.Writing the Literary Analysis
This 14-slide presentation is designed to help teachers introduce writing literary analyses to their students. It is ideal for introductory literature courses. (Writer and Designer: Brian Yothers)Writing with PowerPoint
This presentation will introduce you to the PowerPoint environment and describe the rhetorical issues that need to be considered when writing with Powe rPoint.Benefiting Most from a Writing Tutorial
This workshop introduces English as a Second Language writers to some basic concepts in writing center pedagogy. It also familiarizes them with the idea of agenda-setting so that they may come to a writing center with their concerns and issues. The last issue addressed is grammar and dictionary use. This presentation can be used as part of writing center orientation program for ESL classes or as part of orientation at an ESL students' first writing tutorial. (Writer and Designer: Lu Liu)
Research and the Internet
This presentation introduces your students to methods for effectively search ing the World Wide Web and evaluating the content of web pages. The twenty-four slides presented here are designed to aid the facilitator in an interactive presentation of search and evaluation strategies. This presentation (our most r equested workshop!) is perfect for the beginning of a research unit in a composition course or for any research assignment that requires the use of Internet sources. (Writer and Designer: Jennifer Liethen Kunka)Using THOR (Updated: February 2003)
This presentation introduces students to methods for using THOR (THe Online Resource), the web interface to the Purdue library system catalog and a number of electronic indexe s. The thirty-four slides presented here will aid the facilitator in discussing how to search the catalog and the indexes. This presentation is ideal for the beginning of any segment of a course that involves library research at Purdue Univ ersity. (Writer and Designer: Erin Karper)Cross-referencing: Using MLA Format
This presentation teaches your students the purposes of MLA documentation, as well as methods for using parenthetical citations and a Works Cited page. This presentation is an important addition for the beginning of a research unit in a humanities course or any assignment that requires MLA documentation. (Writer and Designer: Jennifer Liethen Kunka)Documenting Sources: Using APA Format
This presentation reviews the purposes of APA documentation, as well as methods for effectively using parenthetical citations and a reference page. This presentation is ideal for the begin ning of a research unit in a science course or any assignment that requires APA documentation. (Writer and Designer: Jennifer Liethen Kunka, updated September, 2001).Field Research: Conducting an Interview
This presentation provides suggestions about how to conduct interviews for field research. It is primarily designed for first-year compositio n students, but it can be adapted for upper-level classes. (Writer: Brian Yothers)
Sentence Clarity and Combining
This presentation is designed to teach your students about common sentence clarity problems, including misplaced modifiers, dangling modifiers, and passive voice, as well as strategies for combining sentences together. The twenty-nine sl ides presented here are designed to aid the facilitator in an interactive presentation of methods for improving sentence structure. This presentation is suitable within any course as a refresher to common sentence problems. (Writer and Desi gner: Jennifer Liethen Kunka. Additional graphics: Michelle Hansard.)Conquering the Comma
This presentation introduces your students to the rules of comma usag e, including placement in compound sentences, after introductory elements, with dependent phrases and clauses, around non-essential elements, in a series, and with adjectives. This presentation also covers methods for avoiding a common comm a error--the comma splice. This presentation is ideal for the beginning of a composition course, the assignment of a writing project, or as a refresher presentation for grammar usage. (Writer and Designer: Jennifer Liethen Kunka)Business/Professional Writing
General Business Writing Issues
Email Etiquette
This presentation was designed in response to the growing popula rity of email in the workplace and the subsequent need for information on how to craft appropriate email messages, communicate with colleagues and classmates, and participate in electronic mailing lists. Anyone who uses email (regardless of regularity or purpose) will find this workshop to be useful. This presentation includes explanations and activities for audience participation. (Writer and Designer: Stephanie Williams Hughes with contributions from Angela Laflen, updated April 2002)Writing Business Messages
This presentation is designed to help writers analyze their audience and organize information effectively in business messages. The 41 slides presented here ar e designed to aid the facilitator in an interactive presentation about the business writing process. This presentation is ideal for any writer who desires to write more effective and persuasive business messages. (Writer and Designer: Angel a Laflen, with contributions from Stephanie Williams Hughes and Victoria Kellough, updated April 2002)Employment Documents
Cover Letters
This presentation is designed to help students more fully un derstand the expectations readers have when reading a cover letter. This presentation is ideal for any student, especially those students who are nearing the time when they will be ready to apply for jobs or internships. (Writers and Design ers: Angela Laflen and Jennifer Liethen Kunka)Crossing the Finish Line: Writing a Job Acceptance Letter
This presentation is designed to help students and job seekers understand how to prepare a job acceptance letter. This presentation is ideal for anyone involved in the job search process. (Writers and Designers:Vicki Kellough, Lindsay Trawick, and Heather Long)Developing Your Resume
This sixty-one slide presentation takes job seekers through a comprehensive interactive workshop about the drafting and desigining of their resume sections, including the contact information, the objective statement, the education sect ion, the experience section, and the honors and activities section. (Writer and Designer: Bryan Kopp)Each of the resume sections may also be downloaded and presented as a separate workshop:
Resume and Cover Letter (combined PowerPoint)
This presentation is a combination of the resume and cover letter prese ntations. It covers both resume development basics and cover letter basics. (Writers and Designers: Angela Laflen and Jennifer Liethen Kunka)Resumes
This 40- to 45-minute presentation is designed to hel p students develop their resumes and attract the attention of prospective employers. This presentation covers methods for developing each section of the resume and is well-suited to any person preparing documents for the job search process. (Writers and Designers: Angela Laflen and Jennifer Liethen Kunka)Scannable Resumes
This presentation is designed to assist students in learning the various methods for crafting a technologically co rrect document that will be successfully translated into a potential employer's database. This workshop is ideal for students who are nearing the time when they will be ready to apply for jobs or internships and need to tailor their resume for scanning. (Writer: Stephanie Williams Hughes)Agricultural Economics/Cooperative Extension
Powerful & Practical: Writing the Impact Report
This presentation offers rhetorical and practical advice for how to write good impact reports for programs. (Writer and Designer: Mitch Simpson)Principles for Powerful Persuasion
This presentation is designed to teach principles for persuasion when giving presentations to audiences and groups about programs. (Writer and Designer: Mitch Simpson)
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