OWLs and ESL Students (1996)
The purpose of this review is to identify which on-line writing labs (OWLs) have resources specifically for English as a Second Language (ESL) students and what kinds of resources are available.
PR(OWL)ING AROUND: An OWL by Any Other Name (1996)
As in the natural world, cyberOWLs come in a variety of species, from completely online, full-service writing centers to those that serve to announce their existence. Rising early enough one day to hunt OWLs, I went searching through the dark, wooded forests of the cyber-jungle and identified the names of some 93 self-styled OWLs!
From the (Writing) Center to the Edge: Moving Writers Along the Internet (1995)
The Internet, an electronic network linking computers throughout the world, invites teachers to explore its uses for writing instruction because it is a text-based environment. Users communicate by writing messages that travel out onto the Internet, read the prose in its vast pool of resources, and gather information from those resources for their own writing.
From Place to Space: Perceptual and Administrative Issues in the Online Writing Center (1995)
Online conferencing, including both synchronous and asynchronous exchanges, started in the composition classroom and moved to the writing center. Writing centers, no longer limited to face-to-face encounters, have begun exploring the potential of electronic conferencing.
E-mail Tutoring, a New Way to Do New Work (1995)
Although writing centers have used computers for over a decade now, they have used them primarily in autotutorials (computer-assisted instruction) and for word processing. These applications reflect the influence of the process movement in composition studies and the writing center's commitment to the individual writer.
Tutoring in Cyberspace: Student Impact and College/University Collaboration (1995)
The Writing Center Consultation Project is a collaboration between the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) and the Oak Ridge campus of Roane State Community College (RSCC) in Tennessee. Undergraduate RSCC students e-mail drafts of their essays to graduate students at UALR who then return the drafts through e-mail along with comments.
MOOving Along the Information: Writing Centers in Cyberspace (1995)
It has always seemed to us that all writing takes place in a kind of virtual reality involving one's vision, one's ideas, and one's voice. When viewed in this manner, creating a writing center in Cyberspace is not a particularly alien concept.
Online Tutor Training: Synchronous Conferencing in a Professional Community (1995)
Daedalus Interchange, an online synchronous conferencing program, fits well with writing center tutor training philosophies that are based on the social and dynamic construction of knowledge with each member of a community having a voice.
Online Writing Labs (OWLs): A Taxonomy of Options and Issues (1995)
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A Dialogue on OWLing in the Writing Lab (1994)
Writing centers have the freedom, flexibility—perhaps even the responsibility—to fly a bit freer into the future and to test the waters of new ways to interact with writers. One of those ways, which some of us are now exploring, is electronic tutoring, that is, connecting to stu-dents in other locations via computers.