About the OWL
The Online Writing Lab (OWL) is a digital platform of the Writing Center at TH Nürnberg, that supports you and other students in writing in a multimedia, accessible, and interactive way. Its goal is to strengthen your writing skills.
Knowledge base & more
At the heart of the OWL are the articles.
Here you can look up knowledge about academic writing. The articles can be filtered by different categories and are easy to find using the search.
Interactive elements such as Owly and the Writing type test provide additional support in the writing process.
OWL+
Through OWL+, Ohm students have exclusive access to
- get written text feedback,
- schedule an appointment for writing consulation,
- register for the Writing Center’s workshops,
- join a writing group, or start one themselves.
Funding & contributors
The Online Writing Lab (OWL) was conceived and developed as part of the project “STARFISH: Shaping the Digital Transformation of Higher Education – from knowledge islands to a connected teaching and learning ecosystem” (2021–2025). After the project ends, it will continue to be developed and managed by the Writing Center at TH Nürnberg weiterentwickelt und betreut. The Writing Center is part of LeKo – the Teaching and Learning Unit at TH Nürnberg.
The project was funded by the Stiftung Innovation in der Hochschullehre (Foundation for Innovation in Higher Education), a trust foundation under the sponsorship of Toepfer Foundation gGmbH, under the reference FBM2020-EA-270.
Many hands and minds have been and still are involved in the conception and implementation:
Dzifa Vode · Deborah Bertram · Simone Tichter · Stefanie Gandt · Leonie Frenzel · Myriam Bugl · Alena Rauch · Jonas Peer · Julia Körndl · Sofía Cortijo Galdón · Lena Happel · Eugen Witt · Elizabeth van den Daele · Anna Lindenmeier · Carina Eirich · Daniela Fuß · Tarita Domeneghetti · Lena Wittman · Deirdree Rieker
Sofía Cortijo Galdón created most of the wonderful illustrations that give the OWL its distinctive look. The technical implementation was carried out by lichtschreiber, and the editing and translation by Lektorat Wortwaage.
This Online Writing Lab (OWL) is an Open Educational Resource (OER). The contents of the OWL (texts and materials) are licensed under CC-BY 4.0, unless otherwise stated.
This means, among other things, that you may copy and distribute the material, use its contents as a basis for your own materials, or further develop it. The condition is that you cite the OWL as the source in a traceable way and clearly indicate whether you have used the material unchanged or modified. Graphics, images, and videos are expressly excluded from the license and may not be used without permission. Feel free to contact us in such cases if you are interested in using them.