No blog post for Week 9!
Your blog post revisions need to be completed by Friday, August 19th, at 5 p.m.
All you need to do is tag the post with the original week’s tag (week5blog, etc.) and also with the tag “revision.”
On Monday, your 1-page (double-spaced) prospectus* is due; and I’d like you to post a version of that prospectus as your blog post for next week. The two can be pretty similar, but I’m assuming that they won’t be 100% identical, if only because you’d say things differently to your classmates than if you were saying them only to me. And I encourage you, if you want to test an idea out, to use the blog post for this purpose.
This way, even before our next round of conferences, you’ll be able to get feedback from your writing group members, and you’ll also learn sooner what they’re working on, so you’ll be better able to give feedback when we reach that next set of meetings.
*I don’t mind if you go over the limit — tell me what you can, so that I can be helpful.
Because you’re preparing for conferences, and commenting on people’s posts, you do NOT need to post additional comments this week on the blog.
This week, for your blog post, I’d like you to respond to the following prompt:
Choose one of the texts we’ve read so far (up through Swift and Montagu), and choose two words within it that you think are important. Write a paragraph for each word, describing how the author of the text uses it, and what it means to him/her, according to your interpretation.
What makes each word important to the author’s point? Is there anything unique or unusual about the way that a word is being used in the text? Does it contrast with the meaning that we use for the term today?
After you’ve written both paragraphs, write one more, to communicate to your readers why you chose the words, what connections exist between them, and why understanding them is important to reading the texts.
And, of course, tag your post with week2blog.
If so, you can sign up with Gravatar, here. You certainly don’t have to, but if you’re interested in building a professional online identity, or starting to build one, depending on where you are in school, then choosing a photograph to associate with your comments is a good idea.
Gravatar is a platform used by many blogs and news associations — it’s linked to your email address*, so if you comment regularly on blogs or at other sites that use it, then the photo you choose will be automatically uploaded.
If you choose to sign up, it may take 24-48 hours for your photo to become associated with your blog login.
And of course, if you sign up with the intent of using Gravatar with this blog, your photo needs to be rated PG-13 or lower.
* But you can add multiple email addresses to your account, if you choose.
Recent Comments