Post #1: Personal Introduction
Due by the class period on Monday, August 29
*Please follow the in-class instructions to create your own Course Blog. You will find the writing prompts for each blogging assignment in this blog. Follow the guidelines for each to make your posting accordingly. Please title your posts in the same way I title mine (e.g., Post #1: Personal Introduction, and so on) so that I can clearly identify your respective posts for evaluation.
Post #1: The main purpose of your first blog post is to clarify why your blog exists and other related questions that your readers might have upon stumbling upon your blog. Therefore, create a blog posting in your own Course Blog, which clarifies the “rhetorical situation” for your blog (which is a rhetorical artifact): writer, purpose, message, audience, context.
-Who is the writer/blogger (brief info about you)?
-What is the writer/you writing about? What is the purpose of your blog (include the course information but you may also include a purpose of your own)? Who is your intended audience (write one or two sentences about who might make use of this blog or would like to check it out, etc)?
-What is the context for this blog (you can think about the classroom and beyond)? Since you will want to mention our Rhetoric and Public Culture course, it is also appropriate to give some information about your reasons for taking the class, any past rhetoric/writing classes you have taken, etc.
Be flexible and use your creativity. Feel free to make your posts more colorful and interesting with media (images, video, etc); cite your images and try to use ones that are in the public domain (not copyrighted), but you should be fine sharing any YouTube videos. You may also create your own images (take photos, etc) and add them to your blog, too.
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