This is your chance to get credit for writing what you like!
This is your professor's blog for the spring 2016 iteration of English 101_012 at SUNY-Farmingdale. You'll build a blog like this and make of it anything you choose. I'll be building mine right along with you.
You can write about class readings or about your favorite films, bands, books, architecture, animals -- literally anything. Your blog is yours to design and make your own. Post images, video clips. Link to things on the Web that you think are interesting; you can create a world here and get credit for doing it.
The grade you earn on your blog is entirely within your control. You can write a lot (at least one post a week) and pull in lots of intriguing content that demonstrates your commitment to this project. You can demonstrate your desire to use your blog space to explore subjects that fascinate you. You can be confident that your efforts will find an audience in your professor, your colleagues, and other SUNY-Farmingdale faculty, to say nothing of the family and friends with whom you opt to share your work. The more effort and care with which you cultivate your blog, the better will be your blog grade.
Your professor will offer comments on your posts, and your peers will be required to read a minimum number of your posts and share their thoughts.
Bear in mind that ours is a writing course, so it's important that your blog includes a substantial amount of your writing. Book and film reviews, comments on current events, your thoughts about this course or other aspects of your university experience, sources of frustration, hopes for the future, experiences you have and want to write about -- these things and anything else you can think of are fair game for writing. Think of images and music and video as ways to enhance your writing, but be sure to balance non-writing content with plenty of your own words.
So, welcome to my course -- your course -- and good luck blogging this spring!
So, here's my first blog image. It's Hannah Arendt reading sometime in the 1950s. Arendt was one of the most important writers and philosophers of the 20th century. She would have loved blogging. I'll post much more in the coming weeks and will look forward to your comments and suggestions. Good luck!
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