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Eastern Oregon University
Online Writing Lab (OWL)
Online Faculty Information on Using the OWL
How can online faculty best use the OWL?
- Faculty might provide comments toward revision on a draft-in-progress. At this stage, faculty can require or recommend that certain students who might benefit from tutoring submit a draft to the OWL before they submit a final draft.
- Faculty might allow students to revise after drafts are graded so that students can learn from their errors while striving for a better grade. In their response on the graded draft, faculty could recommend the OWL to students who appear to need writing support beyond that provided through faculty response and peer review.
- We ask that professors do not require all students in one course to use the OWL, as it is difficult for the OWL to accommodate drafts from all students in all online courses requiring writing.
How can I know a student has used the OWL?
- Faculty can require that students request a “Blue Slip” (Tutorial Report Form) from the tutors. Student must request them in the submission form. Tutors will email the “Blue Slips” to the students. Students can then forward the forms to their professors.
How can online faculty create Peer Response Activities required in an online UWR course to meet Under Graduate Writing Requirements?
- Reading and responding to fellow writers can contribute to improvement in students’ writing. We ask that online faculty consider that the Writing Center/OWL cannot take the place of in-class peer review, especially in a writing intensive UWR course.
- For peer review in online courses, an instructor may choose to form peer review groups on Blackboard using the Group Pages tool, or Google Docs.
- Faculty can refer students to the writing assignment, a grading rubric, and peer review questions to guide students’ peer responses.
- Below are some sites where you might find some helpful information about forming peer response groups within your online courses and providing guidelines for response:
http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/html/icb.topic58474/PeerResponse.html
http://wac.gmu.edu/supporting/writing_at_center_how_to/effective_peer_response.php
http://effectiveonlineteaching.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/My-mini-evaluation-rubric-for-online-peer-response.pdf
http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/teaching/activities/index.cfm (scroll down to Peer Review Activities)
Revised 1/12 by
Donna Evans, EOU Writing Center Director,devans@eou.edu
and Susan Whitelock, EOU OWL Coordinator, swhitelo@eou.edu
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