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A Workshop Of Gamifying The Writing Consultant Education, Yixin Zhang
A Workshop Of Gamifying The Writing Consultant Education, Yixin Zhang
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Graduate Student Presentations
The purpose of this workshop is to introduce gamification for writing consultant education and to walk attendees through a hands-on experience of gamifying. Attendees will participate in a five-step design process: setting goals, analyzing learners and contents, assigning experience points and levels, selecting appropriate achievement for badges, and creating an evaluation plan. The learning outcomes are expected to be theoretical foundations about gamification, design-based thinking, creative and critical thinking, and applicable gamification cases.
Recommended Citation: Kancilia, Carrie, "The Writing Lab As Community Resource: Staff Outreach At Purdue University, Carrie Kancilia
Recommended Citation: Kancilia, Carrie, "The Writing Lab As Community Resource: Staff Outreach At Purdue University, Carrie Kancilia
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Graduate Student Presentations
This IRB-approved survey research project aims to evaluate historically low staff usage of the Writing Lab due to some of the following reasons: language barriers, the belief that they do not need writing help, or a lack of awareness of the range of available services offered to them. The goals of this study are ultimately to make the non-student staff community of Purdue aware of the services provided at the Writing Lab and to consider inclusive activities and content to support their professional and personal writing goals. Understandably, The Writing Lab’s chief commitment is to its student population, but I …
Strategies For Tutors Developing Long-Term Relationships With English As Second Language Students In Writing Centers, Andrew Yim
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Graduate Student Presentations
This poster is looking at strategies for tutors looking to develop long-term relationships with ESL and ELL students in writing centers. The strategies that are included within this poster are taken from my own experiences and other readings. Furthermore, the poster looks at different writing centers throughout the United States that have programs that encourage these long-term relationships.
Negotiating A Professional Identity As An International Tutor At The Writing Center, Heejung Kwon
Negotiating A Professional Identity As An International Tutor At The Writing Center, Heejung Kwon
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Graduate Student Presentations
The ethos of international teaching assistants or non-native speaker professionals in the field of writing studies has been researched with a specific focus on teacher identity in classroom settings. The status of international tutors can become a topic of discussion in terms of their credibility, language proficiency, writing competence, and self-efficacy. In this presentation, I discuss how I situate myself as an international tutor at a writing center and ways to self-train and professionalize myself as a better tutor, as well as explore ways to think about mentoring relationships for prospective international tutors.
Increasing Writing Center Visibility: The Political Rationale, Ellery J. Sills
Increasing Writing Center Visibility: The Political Rationale, Ellery J. Sills
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Graduate Student Presentations
This presentation and paper offer a political rationale for the Purdue Writing Lab Repository project. It discusses the need to make writing center research institutionally viable, and how the repository can contribute both to preserving and disseminating writing center scholarship and to presenting writing center administration as institutional research.
Centering Our Stories: Applying Spatial Metaphors To Writing Center Publicity, Stacy O. Nall
Centering Our Stories: Applying Spatial Metaphors To Writing Center Publicity, Stacy O. Nall
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Graduate Student Presentations
This presentation at the 2014 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) discusses how writing centers can use digital spaces to position themselves as assets to their campus and local communities. While most writing centers have pages on their universities’ websites, there continue to be new ways that writing centers can take advantage of these spaces to make their work more visible to wider publics. One way they can do so, the presenter suggests, is through publishing stories about and by the people with whom they partner. These stories give greater visibility not only to achievements, but also help to …
Expanding Audiences For Online Writing Labs: Owls In The English As A Foreign Language Context, Joshua Paiz
Expanding Audiences For Online Writing Labs: Owls In The English As A Foreign Language Context, Joshua Paiz
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Graduate Student Presentations
This presentation from the 2014 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) discusses online writing labs (OWLs), specifically the Purdue OWL, in the traditionally-defined English as a foreign language (EFL) context. The ELF context often presents unique challenges for the teaching of English writing, including challenges of finding appropriate resources. This may lead EFL writing practitioners to rely on the information presented by OWLs to supplement their teaching. However, many OWLs were originally designed for the so-called native speaker (North American, UK, Australian, New Zealand) audience. This raises the question of whether or not OWLs are meeting the needs of …
Encouraging The Growth Of Owls Worldwide: Utilizing Intercultural Rhetoric To Inform Best Practices, Joshua Paiz
Encouraging The Growth Of Owls Worldwide: Utilizing Intercultural Rhetoric To Inform Best Practices, Joshua Paiz
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Graduate Student Presentations
This presentation for the 8th Intercultural Rhetoric and Discourse Conference discusses work on the Purdue OWL, focusing on the resources targeting L2 writers writing for particular contexts (e.g., Writing for the Chinese Business Context), as these resource-types tend to be some of the early Purdue OWL spaces where the findings of intercultural rhetoric maybe more readily applied. This discussion will also provide an overview of recent research looking at the place of and practitioner attitudes towards OWLs in general and, more specifically, the Purdue OWL. The presenter will conclude by discussing new content development initiatives at the Purdue OWL and …
The Journey Of Chinese Students From Mainstream Composition Courses To The Writing Lab: A Needs Assessment, Aylin Baris Atilgan
The Journey Of Chinese Students From Mainstream Composition Courses To The Writing Lab: A Needs Assessment, Aylin Baris Atilgan
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Graduate Student Presentations
This is a needs assessment study investigating the perceptions of ENGL106 instructors/tutors on the writing needs of Chinese students and the perceptions of Chinese students on their own needs in ENGL106 mainstream freshman composition courses at Purdue University. The study also aims to explore the reasons why ENGL106 students use the Purdue Writing Lab Services. The presentation entails the rationale, methodology and the research conducted at Purdue University and aims to offer suggestions on how Chinese students can be served more effectively in US higher educational settings.
Online Writing Labs: Resources For Second Language Writers, Joshua Paiz, Ghada Gherwash
Online Writing Labs: Resources For Second Language Writers, Joshua Paiz, Ghada Gherwash
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Graduate Student Presentations
This presentation at the 2014 TESOL Developer's Showcase discusses best practices and special considerations for using Online Writing Labs as L2 writing support tools. This discussion is grounded both in recent OWL/Writing Center theory, as well as from the presenter's experiences working on a largescale OWL in a variety of capacities. To add to the discussion on special considerations when using OWLs, this presentation also provides a discussion of a recently completed research project involving the Purdue OWL and how it is used to support EFL writing. It will highlight how, even in resources labeled as "ESL," can be overly …
Tutor Education As Professionalization For Technical And Professional Communicators, Daniel P. Kenzie
Tutor Education As Professionalization For Technical And Professional Communicators, Daniel P. Kenzie
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Graduate Student Presentations
This talk from the Council of Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication 2013 conference describes an approach to writing center tutor education that has students not only prepare to tutor technical and professional writing, but also connect content to their majors and careers. I draw connections between research on former writing tutors, transfer of learning, and symbolic analytic work to position tutor education as professional preparation for technical and professional writers. I also invite participants to consider how writing centers and professional writing programs can collaborate work toward this dual outcome.
'He Just Did Not Listen To Me': Authority And Resistance In Writing Tutors' Encounters With Prior Learning, Daniel P. Kenzie
'He Just Did Not Listen To Me': Authority And Resistance In Writing Tutors' Encounters With Prior Learning, Daniel P. Kenzie
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Graduate Student Presentations
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An Owl Abroad: A Descriptive Study Of Owl Use In The Efl Context, Joshua Paiz
An Owl Abroad: A Descriptive Study Of Owl Use In The Efl Context, Joshua Paiz
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Graduate Student Presentations
The project reported on in this presentation at the 2013 East Central Writing Centers Association conference will provide some preliminary findings from a research survey carried out by Purdue OWL staff regarding attitudes towards OWLs in the EFL context. It will conclude with tentative recommendations, as well as by discussing the next steps required for to complete data analysis.
The Purdue Online Writing Lab: Engaging With Local And Global Communities Of Writers, Joshua Paiz, Caitlan Spronk
The Purdue Online Writing Lab: Engaging With Local And Global Communities Of Writers, Joshua Paiz, Caitlan Spronk
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Graduate Student Presentations
In 1995, then writing center director Muriel Harris and her staff developed and launched the precursor to the Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL). Originally, this was an in-house writing resource for Purdue University faculty and staff. Since then, however, the Purdue OWL has become a prime location for community engagement both locally and globally, with over 200,000,000 hits annually. This poster at the Purdue University Academic Community Engagement Poster Presentations demonstrates the impact of the Purdue OWL both locally and globally. It will also highlight how that engagement has changed overtime, through the growth the Purdue OWL’s static resources, to …
Embodied Kairos In The Writing Gymnasium, Christopher Dorn
Embodied Kairos In The Writing Gymnasium, Christopher Dorn
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Graduate Student Presentations
This 2013 East Central Writing Centers Association (ECWCA) Conference presentation draws a comparison between the notions of fungible and epochal time (cf. Geller, “Tick-Tock, Next”) and the classical rhetorical terms, chronos and kairos. While kairos is typically considered in terms of time, its roots suggest a fundamental physical sense, making it a rich concept for imagining both the temporality and the materiality of writing centers. In addition to tracing the meaning of the Greek word and considering some of the kairotic aspects of writing center work, this presentation advocates adopting a kairotic attitude among writing center practitioners, one that …
Owls Across Borders: An Exploratory Study On The Place Of Online Writing Labs In The Efl Context, Joshua Paiz
Owls Across Borders: An Exploratory Study On The Place Of Online Writing Labs In The Efl Context, Joshua Paiz
Purdue Writing Lab/Purdue OWL Graduate Student Presentations
The study reported on in this presentation at the 2013 Symposium on Second Language Writing (SSLW) examined the content creation best practices of four content development teams working on the Purdue OWL. Utilizing focus group methods the study sought to examine what strategies developers utilized to overcome the challenges faced while developing L2 instructional content for a global audience. By examining the various drafts of resources before they finally went live on the Purdue OWL, this study investigated the linguistic and rhetorical choices that developers made in an attempt to create content that would be of maximal user to L2 …