OWLs allow writing centers to extend their services over space and time

• OWLs give part-time students with full-time jobs an opportunity to access services that might otherwise be closed by the time they got off work. This was perhaps one of the first potential benefits discovered by writing center practitioners. Joyce Kinkead commented on this benefit in "The Electronic Writing Tutor" (The Writing Lab Newsletter,  December, 1988).

• Using MOO technology, undergraduates from Tennessee could interact with graduate student tutors from Arkansas. In the CyberTutor Project, Jennifer Jordan-Henley and Barry Maid explain how this worked.

OWLs might be especially useful, therefore, at decentralized sites where students might be required to travel significant distances in order to reach a walk-in writing center, or at sites where tutors may be hard to come by.

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