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ESL-WOW

Excelsior College has launched the Excelsior College English as a Second Language Writing Online Workshop (ESL-WOW) – a free, publicly available resource for non-native English speakers struggling with college-level writing. The project, funded with a $581,600 grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), is housed within the Excelsior College Online Writing Lab (OWL).

ESL-WOW is intended to guide English learners along each stage of the pre-writing, while-writing, and post-writing process through interconnected and interactive modules.

The workshop was built in accordance with promising new strategies in adult second- language writing which include assessing learners’ needs and goals, acknowledging their prior writing experiences, incorporating content relevant to their roles as parents, workers and life-long learners and evaluating their performance on an ongoing basis.