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Purdue OWL News for August 11, 2004
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The Purdue OWL Staff
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Aug 11, 2004 11:10 PDT
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The Purdue OWL News
August 11, 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
<http://owl.english.purdue.edu>. To subscribe to the newsletter, visit
<http://www.topica.com/lists/purdueowlnews/subscribe/>. To unsubscribe
from the newsletter, click on the link at the bottom of this email.
Writing Question of the Week
What happened to the Purdue OWL News?
Answer
Between our OWL coordinator changes, departmental exams, a couple of
cross-town moves, etc., the Purdue OWL News fell off the map the last
few weeks. But we're back on our weekly school-year schedule. See The
OWL Help Nest below to help answer others' questions, or submit some of
your own so that Purdue OWL News can serve up some fresh engaging
content next issue!
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.
Next Week's Questions
Should it be, "nicely done", or, "done nicely"? Many similar examples.
"Thinly slice", or "Slice thinly." I prefer, "slice thinly". Comments
or corrections please.
Could you explain in detail and give some examples for the difference
and similarity between "rather than" and "other than"?
Regarding MLA Style: When an author’s last name is used parenthetically
and you continue to cite the same author, you use only the page number
thereafter. However, when you go to the next paragraph and on, do you
need to recite the author’s last name parenthetically in each of the
following paragraphs to avoid confusion? Or do you just continue to cite
the page until a different author is cited?
What's Happening on OWL
OWL Eye on...New Technologies
We've begun to test a piece of software called TutorTrac in order to
better track and serve the Purdue community visiting the Writing Lab.
This system will replace our current clipboard-and-paper method of
gathering information about who's visiting us.
What's Happening in the Writing Lab
OWL Eye on...Fall Schedule
We are currently finishing the final details of the Writing Lab at
Purdue's Fall 2004 schedule for workshops and conversation groups. Look
for a complete listing in next week's Purdue OWL News.
OWL Eye on...Goodbye, Mitch!
Mitch Simpson, who has been, among many other things, caretaker of the
Writing Lab Newsletter
<http://owl.english.purdue.edu/lab/newsletter/index.html>, will be
leaving us this Friday. Thanks for all of your help, Mitch, and
congratulations on your new teaching position!
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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This newsletter is copyright (C) 2004 the Purdue University Writing Lab
and Purdue University. Purdue's OWL is located at
http://owl.english.purdue.edu.
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