I will post new blogs on a regular basis and you should read before beginning each week’s lesson. The principle purpose of this Blog is to respond to your work and the progress of our course of studies together.

With each new blog you can expect to find:

• Comments and examples from the previous practice writing assignments
• Writing tips that address the most common errors
• An example on how to edit one of your pieces of writing
• Comments on the readings and assignments that are upcoming

This is a writing intensive course that involves a collaborative effort and much reflection and self-editing.

The grades are distributed with the intention of allowing you to practice and self-edit as much as possible free of anxiety and assisted by a writing team. The expectation is that your final writing projects will be professional and presentable outside of the academic situation.

The course also requires you gain expertise with digital literacies; some of you will have better skills than I, and some of you might be worried about the digital challenges; and these are two good reasons to work as teams.

When it comes time to self-organize yourselves into writing teams of 4,  you will want to team up with people who have skills that you are lacking: in other words, the goal will be for each team member to offer some unique skill to that team. I will explain this in more detail of course, in the lesson.

• If you have not all ready done so, you should join our Face Book Private Group page now: https://www.facebook.com/groups/579486772161943/
• This is where you will post your questions through out the course. This way, everyone benefits from my responses. This is a most efficient way to deal with how big we are, as a group. So, please do not be shy to use our page.
• And, if you have a private question you are always welcome to email me at: erika.paterson@ubc.ca

And, now it is time to proceed to the Introduction to Unit One, enjoy.

I hope you enjoy this course – and please, beware: scheduling for timeliness is essential with this course. So, please all assignments must be on time: this is a professional writing course. If you are late, you will make your team members late as well.

One final note: you will see I have left up last semester’s team pages -I will leave the page up for awhile in case anyone is curious and would like to look to see how the writing teams work together.

Enjoy