Welcome!

Welcome! You have found your way to my writer's blog for ENGL 306 Advanced Composition. This semester I am asking that you post a blog entry for every day outside of class (=5 days a week). Each entry should be at least 500 words long. I will check your blog at different points throughout the semester and respond to some of your posts.

Since it would be too complicated to create a class blog where everyone posts their daily writing (ah!), you will each need to create a personal page on blogger.com and share your page with me. I also encourage you to share your page with others in the class but I am leaving that part up to you. Feel free to customize your page. You can make your page more private by only allowing me to view it, or you can share your link with those in your class and/or writing group.

The writer’s blog is a space for you to locate, collect, and make sense of your thoughts about the content of the class and your own writing processes. You may use it as an online journal where you write about life and/or where you record your thoughts and ideas about your writing work. It is also the location where you will experiment as a writer. See my next post called “Writing Inspiration” for a list that may inspire you to write on any given day. You may also want to take a look at the progymnnastra exercises in our class textbook for more ideas about how to make constructive use of your blog.