BLOGGING (Blogs @ Baruch) https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/):
We have a course blog on our course site, and I will be asking you to blog regularly. I am not expecting polished writing with arguments and evidence. In fact, blogs often have a conversational tone. As Andrew Sullivan notes in “Why I Blog,” blogging is “an idiom [whose] truths are provisional, and its ethos collective and messy.” Try to think of your blog as a way to express your ideas or questions about a reading assignment, or some of the struggles or successes you are experiencing with your drafts and writing assignments. Think of your blog as a way to draw your classmates into an online conversation. I encourage you to have fun and be creative. Ideally, your posts and responses will explore ideas related to our course theme and to the various stages of writing. Occasionally, I may offer a prompt, but very often I will be following you, rather than the other way around. Each student is responsible for initiating one blog and being a respondent to at least five blogs. I will leave the length up to you.
Blogging Protocols:
Please make sure that what you write, as well as what you might link to, is not offensive to anyone in our classroom or in the blogosphere. Blogs are often informal, though some tend to be more formal. I want you to use our blog as a chance to practice your formal writing style (complete sentences, correct spelling and grammar, standard English, etc.), as well as to experiment with more informal styles (using sentence fragments, slang, a conversational, colloquial tone, etc.). However, please avoid swear words and language that is clearly insulting or denigrating. If you are offering a critique, or a differing viewpoint, please make it respectful.
To make a Post, please click on the + sign along the very top bar of this page. Please give your Post a title in the space bar (the title should in some way make reference to one of the readings for the next class (or a past class), or one of the topics therein. To Comment on someone’s post, please scroll to the bottom of the Post, and click on Comment. I like to type my Posts and my Comments in a Word document first. I can then proofread my material. Once I have proofread the text, I the copy and paste it into the blog.