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Purdue OWL News for June 2, 2004
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The Purdue OWL Staff
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Jun 02, 2004 10:17 PDT
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The Purdue OWL News
June 2, 2004
Welcome to the Purdue OWL News!
The Purdue OWL News is an online newsletter about happenings in the
Purdue University Writing Lab and the Purdue University Online Writing
Lab (OWL). You can visit our website at
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out the OWL News every two weeks.
Writing Question of the Week
Can you tell me the format for referencing something a college
instructor says during a class? Thank you.
Answer
MLA style (section 5.8.11) says, "In a citation of an oral presentation,
give the speaker's name; the title of the presentation (if known), in
quotation marks; the meeting and sponsoring organization (if
applicable); the location; and the date. If there is no title, use an
appropriate descriptive label (Address, Lecture, Keynote speech,
Reading/), neither underlined nor enclosed in quotation marks.
So it would be something like:
Smith, Bob. Lecture. Maryville University, New York. 17 May 2003.
APA style does not give a specific example for lectures, but I would
cite it as an unpublished paper:
Smith, Bob. (2003, May). Title of lecture (if any). Lecture
presented at Maryville University, New York, NY.
The OWL Help Nest
Each week we'll publish a request for advice or information. If you wish
to contribute a response to the topic, please write to us at
owln-@owl.english.purdue.edu. Please let us know if you want us to
include your name and/or your email address when we publish your
response. The following week, we'll publish the best information and
advice that we receive in the newsletter. If you have a question for our
readers, please send it to us at owln-@owl.english.purdue.edu.
This Week's Question
I desperately need some activities and resources about sentence
combining, sentence clarity and avoiding wordiness with answers. I have
already used the activity on the OWL Web site. Does anyone have any
suggestions for other resources?
Answer:
Allyn and Bacon published the two best resources for sentence combining
back in 1985 called Sentence Combining: Practice Plus, Book 1 and Book 2
by Bruce MacDonald and Leslie Orsini. Unfortunately, both are out of
print. McGraw Hill publishes a distant second place text called
Sentence Combining: A Composing Book by William Strong. With fewer
explanations, the Strong text is more confusing and less effective, but
nonetheless a source for this key writing development device. One other
text (which I have not used in class) is Sentence-Combining Workbook by
Pam Altman et al., and published by Thomson Heinle.--Paul Morse
Next Week's Questions
What is the difference between "any" and "some"? I need to teach E S L
and my students want to know.
What's Happening on OWL
OWL Eye on...What Are Your OWL Dreams?
This summer marks the beginning of work to transform Purdue's OWL from a
massive collection of HTML pages into a streamlined database that will
deliver content dynamically to the Web. As we make plans for this
transition, we'd like to hear from you as to what you'd like to see on
Purdue OWL in the future. Please email Karl Stolley, OWL
Coordinator/soon-to-be OWL Webmaster at ka-@owl.english.purdue.edu with
your wildest dreams and suggestions.
What's Happening in the Writing Lab
OWL Eye on...Maymester Schedule
The Writing Lab will continue to offer services for students and
teachers in Maymester courses. One-on-one tutorials, in-lab and in-class
workshops, lab tours, conversation groups, and Writing Lab resources
will all be available from May 17 through June 11.
Maymester 2004 Writing Lab Hours:
Tutoring Hours: M-Th 9-4; F 9-1
ESL Conversation Groups: M & Tu 3-4; W & Th 11-12.
OWL Eye on....Maymester In-Lab Workshops
Thurs. June 3: APA Style
Tues. June 8: MLA Style
Thurs June 10: Proofreading in ESL
Final Thoughts
Thanks for reading our newsletter. You can email us at any time at
owln-@owl.english.purdue.edu. You can also email the OWL coordinator,
Karl Stolley, at coordi-@owl.english.purdue.edu and the webmaster,
Erin Karper, at webma-@owl.english.purdue.edu. (Erin and Karl take
turns writing the newsletter.)
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