My main form of evaluation is your critical thinking and engagement with the course material. This is not a space for you to say “I like or don’t like this”—it should be analytical and critically engaged with an aspect of the course content. You can display your wit and have a more casual writing style, even personal, but it should be tied to academic ideas in some form or another.
Blog Checklist:
My Paper…
· Has an enticing title that summarizes the main point
· Is between 800-1,000 words.
· Brings in class discussion & demonstrates a critical understanding of the course material
· Has a logical and coherent structure, including a thesis and clear objectives for each paragraph
· Intro has a provocative hook, a thesis, and background on the topic.
· Paragraphs include argumentative topic sentences & specific examples to illustrate points.
· Conclusion tells us why we should care about this topic.
· Is clearly written and void of typos and basic grammatical errors
· Includes visual representation: images, gifs, and/or videos that do not interrupt the argument, but rather enhance it.
· References an idea from one of our course readings
· Maybe links out to other articles you are engaging with
Late Policy
If your blog is late you will be deducted 1/3 of a letter grade for each day that it is late (e.g. one day late = A- B+; two days late = A- B; etc.)
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