GENERAL INFORMATION ON THE BUOWL

BUOWL is an online service designed to provide online resources for students and teachers of writing at the School of Foreign languages. You may think of BUOWL for teachers as a resource book and a handbook for teachers. BUOWL for students can be seen as a resource and practice book students can consult when they need information on writing when they are working on their own. BUOWL is not a replacement for classes or teachers, but rather a supplement to class work.

Students’ resources include

Writing guides: These guides focus on problem areas in English and writing, such as sentence fragments or pronoun agreement. For most writing guides there also associated interactive exercises.

Paragraph and essay guides: These guides review rules for writing effective paragraphs and essays. There are also sample essays for modeling.

Grammar exercises: These exercises provide grammar help. They are intended for three levels: beginner, intermediate and advanced. See grammar section for level descriptions.

Paraphrasing, quoting, and summarizing: This section concentrates on these much needed skills.

Research paper: It is a good guide for doing research at an introductory level and writing the research paper. There is also a more detailed version of this handout in the teachers’ section.

Teachers’ resources contain introductory and general information about teaching writing at the SFL as well as useful ideas for classroom management, teaching writing in class, writing one’s own quizzes.