Blog Post #1--the prompt

Writer’s Blog Prompt #1

The Introductory Post
 

DUE:Wednesday, January 13—please have it posted before class time, as we’ll be referring to blog posts IN CLASS. 

Using your first day essay as a springboard, create a blog post that your classmates will read.  Consider your audience and the rhetorical situation of this particular blog. Since this is a blog you are doing within a university class setting, your audience is both academic and social (complex, huh?!). You are writing for your classmates/peers, but you’re also doing it to fulfill a class requirement—you have to strike that oh-so-difficult balance. So, develop a voice for your blog that is engaging and unique, but also professional.

1.) Choose an idea or a short passage from your first-day writing assignment that you find interesting or engaging.
 
2.) Spend time writing and rewriting until you have reshaped your original passage into a blog post containing at least 250 words. 

3.) Don't just cut and paste your original response. Blog writing is a specific format, and your readers expect that a blog post doesn't use the style and voice of a text message, a gchat, or a lab report…or a first-day writing assignment! Use this first blog post to start to develop a particular blogging voice or persona. Remember, too, that the blog is exciting because it doesn’t just have to be text alone! You have the ability to add photos, videos, audio, etc. to your post, if you think serves a purpose here.