The Electronic Writing Tutor (1988)
Jeff works the night shift at the local cheese plant to cover tuition costs, housing, and family living expenses. When he gets off work at 7:30, he's off to a series of classes and then a few hours of sleep.
The Look and Feel of the OWL Conference (1998)
The Online Writing and Learning (OWL) at the University of Michigan grew out of our face-to-face (f2f) peer tutoring program in many ways. Although our OWL website includes links to other OWLs that offer electronic handouts, our primary purpose is to respond to writers’ needs, online, person-to-person.
At Home in the MUD: Writing Centers Learn to Wallow (1998)
Keywords synchronous, MOOs, MUDs, ZooMOO, identity, dialogue, intellectual energy, writing about writing, communities, power, educational hierarchy, democracy Citation Information Type of Publication: Book Article Author: Eric Crump Year of Publication:…
The Online Tutor as Cross-Curricular Double Agent (1997)
Tutors occupy a complex pedagogical space in which they are often asked to serve two masters: teacher and student. When the tutoring goes online, a new level of complexity is added to the web of power relationships.
OWLS: Online Writing Labs (1997)
Freed from the tedium of recopying by hand, students now write papers that go through many levels of feedback and revision. Sometimes that feedback is provided by peers or teachers, sometimes by electronic writing aids such as spell checkers and grammar assistants.
Why OWLs?: Value, Risk, and Evolution (1996)
"Why OWLs" is a timely question, but it's one that as yet eludes definitive answers. What I'd like to do, therefore, is give you the chance to visit several OWLs for yourself and to browse through issues surrounding their creation and use.
Resistance and Control: The Complex Process of Creating an OWL (1996)
The Online Writing Lab should be considered a tool designed to assist students, especially non-traditional, commuting students. This was our Writing Lab's argument for creating an OWL for Texas Woman's University, which has a large number of these types of students as well as three campuses (Denton, Dallas, and Houston) and only one Writing Lab to support them.
Training Peer Tutors with Conferencing Software: Practicing Collaboration and Planning for Difficult Tutorials (1996)
Discusses the use of synchronous conferences via electronic mail in training new writing tutors, highlighting the benefits of such an approach.
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.