Thursday, February 23, 2012

Directions for Submitting A Blog

Hello students! Your blogs are very important to me and should reflect your best possible work. To ensure this is done, please read the following guidelines. Your commitment to this process will affect your grade and how others respond.

Happy BLOGGING!! 

1. Plan your ideas on paper using a variety of pre-writing strategies (your choice).
2. Create a rough draft on paper and then type the submission in a Microsoft word document.
3. Read over your blog to revise and edit for mistakes (especially spelling).
4. Copy and paste your blog onto the page.
5. Create a title.
6. Be sure to respond to at least two other classmates blogs. The response should be a minimum of three sentences in length.

Blog Rubric

____ On Topic/ Focused

____ Organized/ Coherent

____  Conventions (spelling, capitalization, punctuation, grammar, length etc)

____ End with a question to the reader