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The Excelsior College OWL is a free, comprehensive writing resource offering multimedia support. The OWL covers topics such as the writing process, documentation, grammar, critical thinking, and more. 

The Locating Information & Writing with Sources area shares information on finding and incorporating sourses while developing a strong writing process for research essays.

The Writing Process area provides instruction on developing a strong writing process by exploring the steps needed to create essays.

The Grammar Essentials area covers parts of speech and punctuation, and explors the most common errors in college writing.

The Essay Zone includes information, examples, and practice activities with the major rhetorical styles assigned in college writing classes.

The Digital Writing area explores writing in the 21st Century while learning about writing for the web and creating digital presentations.

Argument and Critical thinking introduces students to formal academic argument and demonstrates how critical thinking plays a "critical" role in writing a good argument. 

Educator Resources provides details about the content and activities contained within the OWL and how to integrate these resources into traditional, online, and hybrid classrooms. This handbook also provides support on using the OWL when providing writing feedback and ways in which the OWL supports writing in the disciplines. Select a desired format below: interactive PDF or print-friendly version.

Paper Capers is the writing process game (also available on mobil devices) where players can test their understanding of the steps within the writing process.

The Avoiding Plagiarism area defines the many facets of plagiarism, what its consequences are, and how to avoid it.

ESL-WOW (English as a Second Language Writing Online Workshop) includes lessons and activities on the writing process with specifically designed tutorials to support students whose native language is not English.

The Excelsior College OWL is available on mobil devices as well as desktop computers. Interactive learning activities and examples are available throughout.

It has won many awards to date, and is seen as one of the top online writing labs in existence today (for more on awards, see http://www.excelsior.edu/media/owl/OWL_Awards_Video.mp4).

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