Friday, August 11, 2006

Feature Writing Fall 2006

Hello, Bloggers! This will be a fun experiment for the semester, I think. Your weekly assignment will be to post twice to your blog each week. You need to create a topic within your blog called Feature Writing and post two comments each week. After you set up your blog, be sure to e-mail me the link.

1) Type in 200-400 words (can copy and paste from Word if easier) about a weekly observation you've made. Really focus on the QUALITY of your writing. If you notice an unusual scene at the store or wherever, capture it in writing. Your goal is to share snippets of life with the class. This is not a venting spot. Focus on one single event and communicate its significance to your readers.

2) On the second post, you have a choice. You can continue to work fervently on your writing and capture another slice of life or you can use what I'll call stream-of-conscience venting. Whatever you want. Just type at least 200 words.

3) You are also required to visit the blogs of one of your classmates each week and post something. Do not repeat classmates until you have looked at them all. You can certainly read everyone's each week if you like.

4) You will keep a written record on a sheet of notebook paper of the dates you update your blog and post comments on your classmates blogs.

1 comment:

james said...

Sweet, well maybe :)