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Purdue OWL News for November 10, 2004
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The Purdue OWL Staff
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Nov 10, 2004 10:28 PST
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The Purdue OWL News
November 10, 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
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Writing Question of the Week
I would like advice on the use of commas in the following sentences.
Each sentence has multiple adjectives, and I'm wondering if they need
commas.
1) The kitchen has a new tiled floor.
2) She has a new short haircut.
Thank you,
Linda
Dear Linda,
For adjectives to be coordinate, they have to be in the same "category"
of adjectives. One way to test for this is to switch the order of the
adjectives or put an "and" in between the adjectives. If the sentence
still makes sense, that's a good indication that you should use a comma.
If not, the adjectives are probably not coordinate. For your examples,
I wouldn't use a comma since these adjectives describe different
properties and are therefore in different categories. (anonymous OWL
tutor)
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 Questions and Answers
Question #1
I am an English teacher in Greece and I am teaching landscape
architecture terminology to students. I have found a lot of information,
articles, books, and internet sites, but I would like to start creating
a dictionary with English terms that will be translated to Greek. Are
there any sources or sites of advising you on how you can start forming
a dictionary? Or are there any dictionaries or sites with this
terminology? I would appreciate any help.--Theothosia Albanti
Answer: John Fleming, Hugh Honour, and Nikolaus Pevsner published the
fifth edition of _The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape
Architecture_ in 2000. It's available from most online booksellers. A
quick search resulted in very few sites devoted to the terminology of
landscape architecture. As to how to go about forming a dictionary, you
might try searching the International Journal of Lexicography's articles
for some help, or at least to get the names of people who specialize in
this practice. It's available at the following URL:
http://ijl.oupjournals.org/
Question #2
I'm looking for books and multi-media resources suitable for teaching
Language Arts for High School and Language for an International
Baccalaureate Diploma program. Please recommend or help me get in touch
with any bookshop/book companies that carry such books (in English,
Please).
Answer: There are far, far too many book companies that publish
language textbooks for me to even narrow them down for you. Happily
there is an excellent web resource you can turn to. Browse to the
following URL for a list of ESL publishers:
http://www.cal.org/ncle/publishers.htm
Next Week's Questions
Question #1: In practicum last week, the English department graduate
assistants who work as tutors in the Writing Center here at Eastern
Illinois University said that they would really appreciate hearing from
other tutors who have found tactful but effective ways to talk to
students about material in their papers that might have been lifted from
research sources without proper acknowledgement. What do you say in
that situation--and how?
Fern Kory, Assistant Director
EIU Writing Center
Question #2: In grade school english class, I was told that it is
improper to end a sentence with a preposition. Recently, I heard on a
radio program that this had been an incorrect rule that resulted in
awkward sentences such as, "By whom is this poem?" I immediately
released myself from this requirement. However, my co-worker doesn't
believe it and wants the
opinion of language experts. Which is the correct way to ask such
questions? Whom did you give the money to? To whom did you give the
money? Both?
What's Happening on OWL
OWL Eye on...How would you organize the OWL?
A major part of our ongoing redesign involves organizing the materials
on OWL so they are much easier to find. If you have any suggestions
regarding organization and navigation, please send them along to Karl at
webma-@owl.english.purdue.edu.
OWL Eye on...Multimedia content
In the coming months, we'll be designing and adding more multimedia
content to our OWL. We'd like to get your feedback about what kinds of
multimedia content would be most useful to you as a user of our website.
Send your multimedia ideas to Chris at
coordi-@owl.english.purdue.edu
What's Happening in the Writing Lab
OWL Eye on...Fall Schedule
The Writing Lab at Purdue University will be available during its
regular hours. It offers one-on-one tutorials, in-lab and in-class
workshops, lab tours, conversation groups, and a multitude of other
Writing Lab resources every weekday.
Fall 2004 Writing Lab Hours:
Tutoring Hours: M-Th 9-4; F 9-1
ESL Conversation Groups: M 1:30-2:30, Tu/Th: 4:30-5:30, W: 11:00-noon,
F: 11:30-12:30
OWL Eye on...In-Lab Workshops for November
Tuesday Nov 16 from 12:30-1:30 "Sentence clarity and combining"
Wednesday Nov 17 from 3:30-4:30 "PowerPoint"
Tuesday Nov 23 from 12:30-1:30 "Proofreading strategies"
Tuesday Nov 30 from 12:30-1:30 "Using APA"
Wednesday Dec 4 from 3:30-4:30 "Using MLA"
The MLA workshop will be the final workshop of the semester.
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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