Evaluation of Site 5

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/pp/index.html

This website，operated by the Purdue University Online Writing Lab, uses PowerPoint presentations in the teaching of writing in classroom. What is fascinating about this site is that the interactive presentations are annotated with brief explanations. Viewers can easily choose whatever resources available by skimming the annotations. Most of the presentations are written and designed by Jennifer Liethen Kunka. Those presentations cover a wide range of topics from writing skills, grammatical issues, to the referencing formats. Teachers of English writing will definitely benefit a lot from those presentations. Another potentiality is to explore the way the presentations are organized and edited to better the performance in presentation skills using Microsoft Powerpoint slide shows. They can be downloaded from the website for free. The site is comparatively easy to navigate with anchors pointing at the designated area of the webpages at a single click of the mouse. However, we cannot find relevant information about the contributors of those presentations on the same page.