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Monday, June 8, 2015

Computers & Writing 2015: UxD and OWLs, or Preparing for the Next Step

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It’s been some time since I’ve written an update for this blog. This is, perhaps due to the excitement that is inherent in the final months...
Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Recommendations and Thinking about Personas

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Our work with English 515 has been over for a semester, and time has evaporated since we received the final recommendation report from the...
Thursday, December 4, 2014

The OWL as a t-shirt by Jessica Schwingendorf

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As I began reading the abstract for “Culture and Usability Evaluation: The Effects of Culture in Structured Interviews” I got distracted. T...
Saturday, November 22, 2014

Frustration and the OWL by Tanner Heffner

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Have you ever been so frustrated with a computer that you wanted to scream at the screen? Not in the angry teenage gamer way, but in the wha...

Windowless Airplanes by Carly Harmon

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Figure 1 I read an article recently that talked about the development of air travel within the next ten years. According to this article...
Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Ubiquity, Testing, Experience

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Ubiquity: that is perhaps the one word contrast between the context of the previous generation of OWL testing and this new iteration. In my ...
Monday, November 3, 2014

International Students and ESL Resources by Andrew Yim

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I have been shadowing tutors in the Purdue Writing Lab for a class this semester.   Freshmen have come in frantically looking for help with ...