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Purdue OWL News for July 15, 2004
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The Purdue OWL Staff
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Jul 15, 2004 08:46 PDT
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The Purdue OWL News
July 15, 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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During the summer session at Purdue (May to August), we'll be sending
out the OWL News every two weeks.
Writing Question of the Week
In the following sentence, what is the correct placement of
theapostrophe in "masters," if at all:
We place a high priority on attracting the very best
master’s/masters’/masters-level teacher candidates.
Thanks for your help!
Answer
Sorry for the delay in responding, but we finally got the question! Your
first instinct is correct: master's-level teacher candidates. Even
though candidates is plural, the degree signifies that you are a master
of something, hence, the master's degree and master's-level
candidate.--GT
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.
Last Week's Question:
How can I get the materials and resources on Sentence Clarity and
Combining that the OWL Lab workshop will be using on July 27? I will be
greatly obliged to get any and all resources on that topic. Thanks in
advance.
Answer
The materials and resources for our workshops are generally available
online as PowerPoints, Hypertext Workshops, and Handouts. The OWL
believes in making this information public, especially because our
actual in-lab workshops are open only to Purdue students.
Specifically for the workshop you're asking about (Sentence Clarity and
Combining), we suggest you check out the following links:
<http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_sentclar.html>
<http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/pp/sentence.PPT> (A PowerPoint,
so you must have the Microsoft software installed to use it--and FYI,
we're going to work to make PowerPoints available in alternate formats
as we continue to work on the OWL).
Next Week's Question
I have been teaching how to write a TOEFL essay for a few years now
using Barron's How to Prepare for the TOEFL Essay (2nd edition). I'm not
really crazy about the exercises in the book, but it seems to be the
only book on the topic and it does have 185 essay examples. I have used
hints from various on line info available, including Purdue, but I still
can't seem to get my students to write well enough. For example, one
thing I would like to teach them is to put the action of the sentence
into the verb. How do you make an exercise to practice this? Also, in
general I'm getting bored teaching this course so often. What can I do
to renew my interest and, of course, my students' interest?--Debbie
Green, Ann Arbor
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 Webmaster at
ka-@owl.english.purdue.edu with your wildest dreams and suggestions.
What's Happening in the Writing Lab
OWL Eye on...Summer Schedule
The Writing Lab will continue to offer services for students and
teachers in Summer Session courses. One-on-one tutorials, in-lab and
in-class workshops, lab tours, conversation groups, and Writing Lab
resources will all be available every weekday from June 14 through
August 6, except for July 5.
Summer Session 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....Summer Session In-Lab Workshops
Tues. July 20: Writing for an American Academic Audience
Tues. July 27: Sentence Clarity & Combining
Tues. August 3: MLA
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,
Chris Berry, at coordi-@owl.english.purdue.edu and the webmaster,
Karl Stolley, at webma-@owl.english.purdue.edu. (Chris and Karl take
turns writing the newsletter.)
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and Purdue University. Purdue's OWL is located at
http://owl.english.purdue.edu.
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