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Reference, Facts, News - Free and Family-friendly Resources - Refdesk.com. OWL. Coming Soon: A new look for our same great content! We're working hard this summer on a redesign of the Purdue OWL. Worry not! Our navigation menu and content will remain largely the same. If you are having trouble locating a specific resource, please visit the search page or the Site Map. The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses writing resources and instructional material, and we provide these as a free service of the Writing Lab at Purdue. Students, members of the community, and users worldwide will find information to assist with many writing projects. For more information about services for the Purdue University community, including one-to-one consultations, ESL conversation groups and workshops, please visit the Writing Lab site.

Mission The Purdue University Writing Lab and Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) assist clients in their development as writers—no matter what their skill level—with on-campus consultations, online participation, and community engagement. Display readability statistics. < Hot Recorder > 10 Words You Need to Stop Misspelling. 50 words that will improve your writingBad Language. Stephen King famously gave us three of the most useful words to improve your writing: ‘kill your darlings.’

You should treat words as practical rather than precious. They are the bricks to a building: they need to be sturdy and accurately placed in order to create functional and beautiful architecture. Right, 47 more to go… Headlines How. People always want to know how.Number. Leads (or Ledes) Writing to Deadline by Donald M. Focus. Spelling The Oatmeal has brilliantly illustrated the ten words that you need to stop misspelling. Simplify Brevity is the soul of wit. Although vs. despite the fact thatFor vs. on behalf ofAbout vs. with reference toNow vs. at the present timeBecause vs. as a consequence ofLet vs. afford an opportunity Attribute Quotations lend credibility and a voice to writing, but after a while ‘said’ starts sounding a little abrupt. AddedCommentedRemarkedNotedClaimedSighedMused Avoid Knowing what not to say is just as important as saying it right.

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