The OWL was introduced to us by one of professors in last semester. I just had a glance of the website without looking carefully and deeply into the details. Based on the handouts that my teacher gave to me, I can tell that it's a great site for teachers and students to look for information about writing.
It offers the resources of teaching and learning writing, grammar, ESL writing and writing job searching. It's not a simple writing website in helping the language learners but also helping people in writing in other different majors and fields, such as medical, engineer, social science,etc. It provides a site map which is very helpful for people to have quick looking of what the web offers and quickly locate what you are looking for.
With the purpose of teaching ESL, I found many useful grammar exercises, mechanics， academic writing guide, writing rubrics, APA/MLA/Chicago format guide and the use of punctuation in this writing lab. It covers the knowledge that ESL students need in learning writing from words level to the article level. There is a resource section for writing tutors, teachers and instructors, which provides many useful documents about how to teach writing in different grades, how to prevent plagiarism and how to tutor people write cover letter and resume for job hunting.
It can be used in the writing class teaching but also can be used for students who want to improve writing after school. With the site map in hand, adult and advance level students can go to different sections to find the information about learning writing and they can practise those writing skills by themselves to see the effectiveness.
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