Requirements for Student Blog Posts

BASIC GUIDELINES

1. Choose an article posted online in the last two weeks.

2. Post a summary of the article and your reason for choosing it on your blog.

3. Submit a total of ten posts for the semester following the schedule on your syllabus.

Each post should contain the following elements:

• Assignment Number (for example, "Article Review #1")
• Article Title
• Article Author(s) (if listed)
• Article Publication Date
• URL of Original Article
• Article Summary (up to 300 characters describing the contents of the article)
• Relevance to the Class (up to 300 characters describing how the article relates to the class)
• Key Quote (a quote of up to 300 characters directly taken from the article highlighting an important point)

Use the Character Count Script on our blog to check the length of elements that have a character limit assigned (see above).

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

1. Set the date manually

I'd like you to use Blogger's date and time feature to set the publication date of your post to the Wednesday that it's due. If you're not sure how to use this feature, be sure to ask me.

2. Use labels to tag your article

I'd like you to use the "Labels" feature to add descriptive tags (words that could help a reader know what your post is about) to each of your blog posts. This is an important part of the exercise, because these labels will be used to enhance navigation on the blog. Start tagging your article reviews from the beginning.