Non-traditional students working and attending school.
Sophisticated students demanding that technology and the classroom merge into a single unit.
Conversely, students, as well as campus administrators, might enjoy the availability of the OWL so much that they might begin to devalue conventional Writing Center services. Providing OWL services might impose time, money, and training hardships on the functional structure of the Writing Center. They differ, however, in that they work on a variety of computing platforms and with a number of word-processing programs.