Straightening out the PRWR Blog

class - 3/15

My effort to help construct the final blog project for Theory of Exposition seems to have paid off. The class, instructor and I had an effective discussion about what the blog project is and how to do it. 

First off, the site I created - tuprwr.blogspot - showed the class how a collaborative blog would work. And the consensus is, everyone wants to do their own blog. Cool! Actually, it makes a lot of sense. We are all writers and we all want control over what we're doing. I can surely relate.

It seems some of the students, in my Thur night PRWR 613 class, want to use the blog for more than the final project - the blog assignment. That's not a bad idea. Beth showed a lot of enthusiasm over using the blog for other assignments, like the discussion questions, and as long as Cheryl can get a grasp on the grading then all's-good. Jen and Nakita mentioned that if this is the case then a stack of posts by a class full of students on the same subject might not be an attractive blog site. Agreed. Why not have everyone create their own site?

The final 'blog' project

Just to be clear, this is my take on the final blog project.

• Submit posts about how the classes' lessons, readings and discussions relate to something else going on in our lives or in the news (outside of class). The topic of the posts is open to anything as long as it relates to writing, communication, rhetoric, exposition, who we've read, etc.
• Submit at least 3 of your own posts, which combine to 1000-1500 words total.
• Comment on 2 others students posts for each phase, a total of 6 comments.
• Optional: use your newly created blog as the format for the remaining reading responses, discussion questions, etc.