Writing Spaces: Technoprovocateurs and OWLs in the Late Age of Print (1996)
The long list of "online writing labs," or OWLs, compiled by the University of Maine's Writing Center Online offers testament to the range of writing services establishing an identity in cyberspace. Clever and memorable as it is, the acronym OWL can hardly begin to describe the work accomplished in this variety of sites.
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The long list of “online writing labs,” or OWLs, compiled by the University of Maine’s Writing Center Online offers testament to the range of writing services establishing an identity in cyberspace. Clever and memorable as it is, the acronym OWL can hardly begin to describe the work accomplished in this variety of sites. Being “owlish,” going online, it seems, is more a matter of degree than of certitude, as the Maine list suggests, and it is that degree of cyberliteracy that marks some of these sites as provocateurs. Services that call themselves OWLs might offer one, some, or all, of the following:
Citation Information
Type of Scholarship: Journal Article
Author: J. Paul Johnson
Year of Publication: 1996
Title: “Writing Spaces: Technoprovocateurs and OWLs in the Late Age of Print”
Publication: Kairos, Volume 1, Issue 1