Online Writing Lab

Top-to-Bottom: Unlike other Online Writing Labs, the content here is carefully curated and sequenced in a very specific order, top to bottom. This order allows for scaffolding, building skills upon each other, to maximize student learning.

Target Goals: The order is one which has proven successful for students working toward college-level writing skills, including entrance skills tests. The skills here will also prove useful for business and technical writing, especially grammar, the writing process, and several lectures in the expository writing section. The ability to organize ideas in writing, and to produce well-edited writing, can even be beneficial in personal communications.

Expand Each Section: For each of the sections, you are encouraged to flesh out lessons with additional content and practice opportunities. The intent of this OWL is to guide you with a clear path that isn't muddied with too much extraneous content, but which still provides some resources you can immediately use as a foundation.

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Example Curriculum

  Introduction
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  Grammar Foundations
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  Writing Process
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  Expository Writing
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  Research Writing, with Persuasion
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  Creative Writing and Literature Basics
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  Additional Resources
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