Welcome OSU Comp Bloggers

Welcome to OSU Comp Bloggers. Whether you are a student using this blog for directions, a fellow instructor who wants ideas on blogging in the classroom, or a bloke who's stumbled across this blog by happenstance, it's nice to have you reading along. This first blog post is designed to introduce you to the goals of this blog and with what you can expect to see here. Enjoy your stay.

From Jeff Spruill's English 1213 Syllabus:

Increasingly, workplace writing is being done collaboratively, so that authorship (and the responsibilities that go with it) is shared by several members of an organization, rather than by a lone author working in isolation.  Furthermore, professional writing is rarely presented in the traditional, essayist forms typical of academic writing.  Rather, modern professional writing often involves mixed media, visual imagery, and other such rhetorical devices.

As an introduction to and an initiation into these concerns, students in our class will compose blogs during this semester. These blogs will be open and available to the public.  The class will work in groups to compose original blog entries, corresponding to issues we are dealing with in class but written for a general audience.  Group members will work together to draw conclusions based on consensus and will work under deadlines to complete these projects.

This blog is designed to act as the mother ship for our project. It is a place for students to receive instruction, find useful and interesting guidance, view examples of specific blog assignments and more general examples of academic blogging.

If you are a teacher or interloper reading along out of interest for our project, you will find here ideas to incorporate in your own classroom, links to the writing done by my  students in their blogs, and samples of blog assignments.

Whatever your motivation for being here, happy reading.