Muriel Harris

Muriel Harris is professor emerita of English, Writing Lab Founder and Director (retired), founder and current editor of the Writing Lab Newsletter (http://writinglabnewsletter.org/), member of NCTE, and founder of Purdue's award-winning Online Writing Lab (OWL). She has authored several books, including The Prentice Hall Reference Guide (now being revised for the Eighth Edition) and The Writer's FAQs (soon to appear in the Fourth Edition), both published by Pearson. When she and several graduate students started the Writing Lab at Purdue University, their goal was to create a friendly and collaborative environment where students could talk comfortably about their writing in an informal, one-to-one setting. Harris grew up in Chicago, IL and then went to the University of Illinois, in Champaign-Urbana, IL and then to Columbia University for her doctoral work. She and her husband, Samuel Harris, now live in West Lafayette, IN, where they are retired and from which they travel to Evanston, IL to visit their daughter, her husband, and their magnificent children, and to Washington, D.C. to visit their son and his wife. Harris is an enthusiastic supporter of writing centers as a highly effective environment for students to work on their writing. Her awards, books, book chapters, articles, workshops, and conference presentations can be found on the CV linked to her page on the Writing Lab Newsletter website (http://writinglabnewsletter.org/contact.php). Explore Muriel's recently published texts.