Purdue OWL website

What is Purdue’s OWL? First of all, the anagram stands for Online Writing Lab and Purdue is well known for its literary resources and information on academic writing styles. Many students and professors worldwide use this website for assistance for their English classes. College students like I use this website mainly for instructions on APA citation. I highly recommends Purdue’s OWL website to all college students to use it because it’s very helpful when you need help on essays or a rhetorical analysis. Also, if you want to avoid plagiarism and wants proper citation, OWL has many citation formats like APA to offer.

In class, I have learned a variety of writing styles and how they apply to academic papers. We discussed about how each of these styles has an impact on academic papers and how they connect to the audience. For example, we discussed about rhetorical analysis and how would we use it in certain situations like trying to persuade the audience to look at it from a different view of point. Also, we discussed about the styles we use in arguments and the key points to use in arguments. I fervently recalled class discussions when I’m writing an academic paper and was able to use it as one of my tools. However, I had several weaknesses in my academic writing skills and my feedbacks indicated it.

In class, I used a book; Lunsford to study and research the writing styles and how we use it in an academic paper. It contained information and instructions for these styles. I was able to effectively absorb information from Lunsford and had an understanding of the material presented in Lunsford. Basically, I’m able to use materials contained in Lunsford and class discussions as my tools when I’m writing an academic paper.

However, my light bulb came on full powered when I looked around on Purdue’s OWL website. It had abundant information on many literary styles or instructions on literary skills we, college students use in our academic papers. I completely understood how to properly write a rhetorical analysis or a proper argument with the backing. OWL was truly effective and very elaborative on the material presented on the website. I finally came to an understanding of subjects my class and Dr. Wood have discussed about and also material written in Lunsford. OWL is really a magnificent academic source for all college students and teachers to use for their English classes.