Week 15: Mining the Blogs

Hi class

Welcome to the final unit of the course!

All semester long, you've crafted blog posts about various interesting topics. Only three of these posts were revised into complete essay assignments, though many more posts had tremendous potential to be further developed. The final project gives all of you an opportunity to retrieve yet another of these blog posts and revise it to completion.

To begin, you'll receive the opportunity to thoroughly read the blogs of two classmates. (View the "Unit 4 Peer Groups" listing on our class blog site to learn about who you'll be working with.) After reading your group members' blogs in their entirety, you'll be able to leave precise, helpful feedback in the form of "Greatest Hits". Your "Greatest Hits" posts for each team member will reflect, for them, their strengths of writing. You can also let your group members know what questions you still have in regards to their favorite posts. These "Greatest Hits" posts will help your group members recognize their accomplishments, and might help them as they seek to choose a single post to develop for the final project. Both of your "Greatest Hits" posts should be three paragraphs long (5-6 sentences per paragraph) and should reference at least three specific posts by title.

You yourself will also get to read the two "Greatest Hits" posts presented about your blog by each of your group members. In reading these posts, reflect on your strengths as a writer, and on your opportunity to develop any one of your posts for the final assignment. Seeing what peer readers enjoyed reading might help you to learn about which post to choose as a rough basis for Project 4.

You have no assignment due on Thursday due to the Thanksgiving holiday. Enjoy your time off!

Have a very happy Thanksgiving!

Next week, you'll continue work towards accomplishing your final project.

By this evening, everyone should have received an email with feedback about their final drafts of Essay 3. Grades for Essay 3 have now been posted to Gradebook on Blackboard and are available for viewing.

I appreciate your hard work as we complete the semester and look forward to reading your final writing. Good luck! I'm available if anyone has questions or concerns.

-AP