Welcome!
Welcome to English Composition 1! This is the course blog, a portal for assignments, tips, encouragement, and generally helpful resources.
I will use Brightspace to coordinate class information (via announcements), and most materials will live there, but I like to have an alternative. Plus, I want you to have the opportunity to create and curate a blog.
You're invited (and required) to write regularly for this course. Please plan to write once-weekly reflective blog posts at a blog you'll create (or post at the designated spot in Brightspace). Your blog will be featured at the blogroll @ right. Please see the next post for information on creating and designing your blog. Note: Blogger blogs are quite simple. Making and designing them requires little effort, but when in doubt, a Google search usually offers answers.
Please design your blog so that it reflects a sense of who you are. Try to create something lovely, but remember that you're writing for an audience of your class peers and professor, so keep it professional, fun, and readable and all should go well. You're invited to play with some elemental design skills, which we'll refine throughout the semester.
I hope you'll create a blog that invites you to write often. You might write about ideas you're forming, revision challenges, or maybe current events (though I'd encourage you to avoid much partisan politics in this space). Perhaps you attended a campus event, and you're drawn to think it through a bit more, in writing.
Don't love writing with or for others? We'll help you get over that. You see, writers share. Most knowledge evolves in this way, through sharing, giving and receiving feedback, revising, and polishing to pleasing effect. Granted, the process isn't always pretty. Often, we have to work at it to be polite and respectful to others. Practice helps!
Write with care, here, and in all venues. With this in mind, I'd like to encourage you to avoid rants or attacks. Most of all, I want to use the course blog and your individual blogs to help each and every student to feel a part of our writing community.
essential concepts
I will use Brightspace to coordinate class information (via announcements), and most materials will live there, but I like to have an alternative. Plus, I want you to have the opportunity to create and curate a blog.
how will you be present at this blog?
You're invited (and required) to write regularly for this course. Please plan to write once-weekly reflective blog posts at a blog you'll create (or post at the designated spot in Brightspace). Your blog will be featured at the blogroll @ right. Please see the next post for information on creating and designing your blog. Note: Blogger blogs are quite simple. Making and designing them requires little effort, but when in doubt, a Google search usually offers answers.
Please design your blog so that it reflects a sense of who you are. Try to create something lovely, but remember that you're writing for an audience of your class peers and professor, so keep it professional, fun, and readable and all should go well. You're invited to play with some elemental design skills, which we'll refine throughout the semester.
I hope you'll create a blog that invites you to write often. You might write about ideas you're forming, revision challenges, or maybe current events (though I'd encourage you to avoid much partisan politics in this space). Perhaps you attended a campus event, and you're drawn to think it through a bit more, in writing.
how does this blog create and sustain community?
Learning in communities for writers and thinkers often provides motivation and new ways of approaching new material. This blog is designed to help create and sustain community, especially given that we're challenged to get very close despite our sterile face-to-face classroom in the midst of the COVID 19 pandemic.
In addition to writing at your blog, you are also assigned blog responses. Writing and responding to your peers' entries offers you a model of how many writers write, in writing communities.
Don't love writing with or for others? We'll help you get over that. You see, writers share. Most knowledge evolves in this way, through sharing, giving and receiving feedback, revising, and polishing to pleasing effect. Granted, the process isn't always pretty. Often, we have to work at it to be polite and respectful to others. Practice helps!
Write with care, here, and in all venues. With this in mind, I'd like to encourage you to avoid rants or attacks. Most of all, I want to use the course blog and your individual blogs to help each and every student to feel a part of our writing community.
essential concepts
The work of this course should be relatively easy for you because you already know a lot of what I am going to teach you. You know it from your life experience and immersion in literate culture(s). This could mean that this knowledge is very general and maybe something you don't think about very conscientiously. We're going to bring it into the light for contemplation and practice. Essentially, I am going to reanimate 3 key concepts, about which you may already have some deep knowledge. They are:
- Claims require evidence
- Meaning has context
- Writing is revision
What to do with the writing you've done? Post as your first blog entry at the blog you'll create. Instructions are found in the next post.
Welcome to the course!
Welcome to the course!
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