Blogging Guidelines

BLOGGING GUIDELINES

  • Blog entries will address assigned questions for each lesson and be posted according to the schedule on our Course Schedule.
  • Blog entries should be a minimum of 500 words.
  • Each blog should contain at least two hyperlinks.
  • The quality/credibility and relevance of your hyperlinks will impact the instructor’s evaluation. *See an example below please.
  • Hyperlinks must be correctly cited using MLA Handbook, 7th ed. style in a works cited list at  the end of each blog entry.
  • Your links are meant to inspire commentary and provoke insights on your post.
  • NO Wikipedia links.  Wikipedia can be a good source for finding scholarly sources as well as popular sources which are pertinent to your research concerns. But Wiki is too easy, I want you to broaden your horizons and explore the www for interesting sources that are new to you.
  • No links to dictionary definitions.
  • No links to Encyclopedias – by all means read the articles for excellent background and bibliographic info; but find more interesting sources for me 🙂
  • No links to pages that need a ‘sign-in’ – this includes UBC’s Library. By all means use scholarly sources from the library site, and cite them in your works cited, but don’t use them as one of your links.
  • You may choose what kind of source you want to use: scholarly articles, popular articles, , literature, editorials, poems, you tubes, websites, Blogs, images, graphs, National Film board … .
  • Images and videos must also be correctly cited.
  • Your blogs can be reflective and based solely on your understanding of our assigned readings.
  • Or, your blogs may be scholarly and based on outside research.
  • Or, you may choose a combination of reflective and scholarly: you have choices to make.
  • As the course progresses you will have the opportunity to try your hand at a little story telling with your blogs.
  • You will note that your first six blogs are worth 12% and your last three blogs are worth 18%; this is to give you the opportunity to develop your voice as a blogger – so, if this is all new to you, please relax and enjoy the process of learning to blog and hyperlink.

Blog Commentary / Dialogues

Students are required to read two student blogs and post a significant and relevant observation and question in the comment box of each blog.

  • The comment offers a new insight or a new example from the text that will enlarge the original answer
  • The comment concludes with a question with a measure of complexity

Blog Assignments are found at the end of each lesson.

Example of a blog that hyperlinks with expertise:

HYPERLINKING GGRW

Some excellent websites to use as resources:

These are examples to get you started, feel free to explore and discover our own sources. Thank you.