We look forward to responding to your drafts. We ask that you please read the following Response Policy before submitting a draft to learn how to best use our services:

Please register before submitting drafts.

You need to register only once for the school year.

Allow for 72 hours response time.

Drafts are accepted only Monday - Thursday.

Drafts submitted after noon on Thursday, and all drafts submitted Friday through Sunday, will be considered Monday submissions (Tutors are students too who need weekends to study).

Response Policy

v     The Writing Lab serves to provide writing resources for EOU students and faculty, and to provide online writing responses to drafts submitted by eligible EOU students. At present our Online Writing Lab (OWL) services are for Division of Distance Education (DDE) Students only.  On-campus students are encouraged to use the on-campus Writing Lab located on the second floor of Loso Hall because face-to-face tutoring is the most effective choice when it is available.

v     Research shows that good writers rarely work in isolation, but instead seek responses to works-in-progress. Writers learn best by writing, talking, and getting feedback on their writing, and then rewriting and revising.  We are here to provide student writers feedback at each point their writing process, from getting started, to finding a focus, developing ideas, improving organization, or helping writers to find and correct their own errors.

v     Writing tutors, both online and on-campus, are trained to comment first on conceptual and structural issues ("macro" or "global issues") before they comment on conventions and correctness ("micro" or "local issues").  Consequently, student writers might expect that the tutor's comments will primarily be about the focus of the piece, the supporting details, and organization. 

v     Tutors will comment on issues of convention and correctness (spelling, grammar, punctuation) if there are obvious patterns of error, but they will not correct students' essays for them.  It is important to understand that the Writing Lab is not setup to be an editing or proofreading service.  The writer owns the paper, and the tutor is only a part of a writer's process. 

v     Our goal is to make better writers who can develop a process that will lead to good writing, and to help student writers learn how to improve their own drafts. 

v     Students, and the faculty for whom they write, should have reasonable expectations of what a writing tutor can accomplish in a half-hour session.

v     Please allow 72 hours for a response.  

YOU MUST REGISTER BEFORE SUBMITTING YOUR FIRST DRAFT. After registering once, you do not need to register again. Un-registered students' drafts will be returned without response.

Allow for 72 hours response time.

Drafts are accepted only Monday - Thursday.

Drafts submitted after noon on Thursday, and all drafts submitted Friday through Sunday, will be considered Monday submissions (Tutors are students too who need weekends to study).

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(Please note that when you do receive a response, sometimes the computer will translate some punctuation, such as apostrophes and quotation marks, into code/numbers. The document is still readable. You just need to ignore the numbers.)

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Click here to Submit a First Draft (First draft sent to the OWL, but not necessarily your first draft)

Click here to Submit a Revised Draft