Pearls & Onions

Many of you are becoming expert bloggers: writing interesting, thought-provoking posts, including links to relevant sites, embedding pictures or videos relating to your posts, incorporating original graphics that enhance the look and readability of your site, eliciting comments from peers and unknowns. As we continue to hone our blogging skills, we need to consider our [...]

Part of your daily ritual should now be sitting down to your computer, signing in to iGoogle, skimming through your Google Reader widget, checking out what new content your peers and your teacher have added to their blogs. Some of us have encountered a problem, however, in being able to subscribe to both POSTS and [...]

Have you noticed how long posts clutter your blog pages, making them not-so-pretty to look at and not-so-easy to navigate? Your reader has to scroll, and scroll, and scroll to view all your posts.
To solve this problem, many authors create teasers.

You may have noticed several of your peers are adding images to posts and pages: some are creating graphics that complement a particular post or page, like Jay’s customized header for her blog or JM’s graphics to draw attention to his ideas.
Using images is a great way to add bling to your blog.

For a few weeks, you’ve been reading about your selected topic. Now, it’s time to decide what you–individually–will select for a research paper topic. The idea is to find an aspect of the larger topic on which you want to focus.

I just finished reading your first full-blown style analysis essay. I am tickled–really–with your progress thus far. I know you’re all feeling a bit anxious about writing a full analysis essay in forty minutes. Let’s try to alleviate some of your misgivings.
Flash back with me fifteen class days…