English 320 Assignment

Week of January 27

Blog address: http://320community.blogspot.com             

 

 

Due Friday, Jan 30 at Midnight

 

Overview: Two comments: a) finish in-class work on your own and post a comment describing your narrowed topic, purpose, and imagined audience for your blog; b) read assigned pages of the Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging and post a comment.

 

 

--Finish up in-class work on your own.  Post a comment explaining the 1) narrowed topic, 2) purpose for writing, and 3) imagined audience for your public blog. Include information about what will count as research.

 

--Read pp. vii-36 in the Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging. (Book is now available in the bookstore.) This includes the Foreward, the Introduction, Chapter 1, and part of Chapter 2. Much of this material is designed to make blogging appealing to you, and you’ll find lots of personal accounts addressing the question “why blog?”  Comment on which reasons you find most and least compelling and say why.

 

Assignment to prepare for Face-to-Face Tuesday

Due Tuesday, February 3, at the beginning of class

 

Overview: Prepare 2 possible titles, a short URL (blogspot address), 2 profiles for your public/read blog, and 2 possible welcome posts.

 

Time to get the real blog up and running. In class you’ll be seeking feedback from your group-mates even if you’ve already made decisions. Your decisions for names, URLs, and profiles have to do with CREATING COMMUNITY VISUALLY AND VERBALLY.

 

  1. Look at the author profiles on the blogs you are now familiar with.  How do these profiles on given blogs invite community (or not)? What kind of authority can be embedded in a profile? Verbal? Visual? What will you add to and subtract from your class introduction?

Now prepare TWO possible profiles for your real blog—and come to class armed with reasons for using one or the other.

  1. Prepare TWO titles for your blog—and arguments for and against using each.
  2. Prepare a short and memorable URL (the letters preceding “blogspot”).
  3. Prepare TWO versions of your first community-inviting post.