By Dr. Francesco Crocco The Professor’s Perch is a weekly column offering teaching tips for how to use the Excelsior OWL to help students improve their reading and writing skills. As we bear down on the Fourth of July holiday, let’s remember that...
By Dr. Francesco Crocco The Professor’s Perch is a weekly column offering teaching tips for how to use the Excelsior OWL to help students improve their reading and writing skills. If you’re like me, when it comes to writing, very often you hit...
By Dr. Francesco Crocco The Professor’s Perch is a weekly column offering teaching tips for how to use the Excelsior OWL to help students improve their reading and writing skills. Have you ever read or heard an argument that you knew just didn’t...
By Dr. Francesco Crocco The Professor’s Perch is a weekly column offering teaching tips for how to use the Excelsior OWL to help students improve their reading and writing skills. Summer is here and if you’re a student or a teacher, you’re probably...
The Professor’s Perch is a weekly column offering teaching tips for how to use the Excelsior OWL to help students improve their reading and writing skills. Many OWL users are unfamiliar with the fact that the Excelsior OWL also offers a complete Online...
The Professor’s Perch is a weekly column offering teaching tips for how to use the Excelsior OWL to help students improve their reading and writing skills. Every semester, invariably I come across students who need help writing good body paragraphs for their essays....
While the Excelsior OWL is better known for its award-winning open-access writing and reading resources for students, the OWL also offers an extensive library of resources for the many educators who patron the OWL and use it in their classrooms. Last month, educators...
From 2017-2018, the total number of people using the Online Writing Lab more than doubled! In 2018, the OWL logged 535,642 users, a 102% increase from the previous year. Total sessions also doubled by climbing past 723,000, and total pageviews nearly doubled by...
The Booth Ferris Foundation has awarded Excelsior College a $200,000 grant to create a Center for Writing Excellence. The two-year project began on September 1 and will advance the College’s strategic initiative around Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) by improving the way faculty...
In January, Excelsior College ran a student survey to a random selection of enrolled undergraduate students in order to discover what students thought about the Excelsior Online Writing Lab. Overall, the results were very positive, with students reporting widespread awareness of and...