Suggestions for blog writing

SUGGESTIONS FOR BLOG WRITING:

1. Edit your text. This isn’t instant messaging. Use proper English. Use Word’s spell-check. Ask a friend to look over your copy. If there are too many writing problems in the text, it will be “unpublished” and returned to you for editing before it is approved for posting.

2. Remember that your audience is the world, so don’t just address the other students in the course or assume that your reader knows what’s going on in the class.

3. Respond to something in the assigned reading.

4. Copy a passage from a book or article and comment on it.

5. Check out the News pages and locate an article of interest. Copy and paste a passage from the article, and comment about it; remember to insert a hyperlink taking us to the article.

6. Look around in the website and find something interesting to call to the attention of your reader—an image, a quotation, a video, a book. Comment on it and make a link to it.