Now that my students are all capable of making the blogs work – they can post articles without technical problems and without forgetting their passwords – I’m beginning to push the writing they’re posting. This week, we’re beginning to consider their audiences and purpose, which, in my little dreams I call expectations, I hope will [...]
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Today we’re considering audience and purpose and how they affect our writing. To begin, we’ll revisit our evaluation of the occasion of the Declaration of Independence. In your blog article,
please explain what was the purpose of the Declaration of Independence and who Jefferson’s audience was.
How would that have affected how he wrote the document?
Consider too [...]
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Overall, I am quite pleased with the quality of your writing and insight for the last entry, when I asked you to write at least 10 lines. I will likely apply similar line requirements for a while, at least until you get used to how much writing it takes to articulate a complete thought.
For samples [...]
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One of the things I find most interesting about the explosion of blogging is watching the world discover the highly personal nature of writing. Of course, what they’re noticing is the genuine writing, because the bickering exchanges and angry spats that sprout like weeds on comments and letters to the editor are more sophomoric verbal [...]
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Today my goal is really to drive you crazy, and I think I can accomplish that by assigning your first length requirement for a blog. Let’s face it, some of you are not extending your thoughts enough to reach anything interesting enough to publish, and by forcing you to write a certain amount, I am [...]
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