What does OWL stand for?

Responding with Purpose: Analysis of a Writing Center's Commentary Practices in an Asynchronous Online Writing Lab Environment.

The well-informed text deals with the following tasks: enhancing active learning with technology, using technology to respond to literature, using the internet in combination with young adult literature to foster a love of reading, understanding technology tools to enhance and inspire composition (includes information on student publishing), visualizing verse online, and using online writing labs, among others.

A couple of places to look include Purdue University''s Online Writing Lab and Dartmouth''s Writing Center.

Online Writing Lab, Tidewater Community College, http://www.

Online writing labs, glossaries and tutorials also include sample student papers.

As we added complexity to our busy face-to-face consultation services, it became necessary that we expand the UWC to keep up with UCF's growing student population of more than 48,000, as I discussed in "Using RoCs to Inform New Training Methods," a preliminary discourse analysis based on our pilot online writing lab, KnightOWL ("Using RoCs" 10).

Students use SMARTHINKING's online tutoring environment to work live with a qualified and trained e-structor, to submit a question for response later, or to submit a piece of writing to SMARTHINKING's Online Writing Lab for critique.

A solution to this problem is the writing center, a place with trained tutors; with consultants who can use the online writing lab to make copious amounts of information available in a manageable, easily understood, easily accessible form; a place where any student can come for free instruction in Turabian, MLA, APA, reading-to-write, syntax, essay structure, and research paper skills.