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Why Blog?
You’ve learned lots of grammar and done a lot of language games, so you know the basics, but any context outside the classroom is specific, and each of your business fields has its own special...
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Assignment for 7.1.08
It’s just great that most of you have already done most of the assignment already, but here I post it so you can find it easily and so be sure to catch up on all the details. Blogging Assignment. As...
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Designing Your Blog
In this post I will talk about how your blog design — including the strategies you use to search for relevant blogs; how you describe, analyze, and evaluate them; your choice of blog theme, and the...
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Your Blog Post As Critical Conversation
Blogs work differently than everyday language, and I think the best way to understand this is as a conversation or narrative with not simply a beginning, middle, and end, but as a dialogue you...
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How Blog
The Importance of Titles Let’s start at the top of Marlene’s excellent post on Monet, beginning with the title and noting how it is direct and to the point: no long sentences here, but the proper...
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Blogging Project Evaluation Criteria
The problems we all face with evaluations is making them fair, transparent, and not too time consuming. This post includes the handout I distributed today in class and where I have developed criteria...
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Blog Writing Exercises
Where the previous post was primarily concerned with the overall blog design, this post includes the handout I also distributed today featuring a dozen writing exercises designed to help you learn the...
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Deep Blogging
As outlined in my previous posts, our study of Business English online has basically four parts. We’ve all now succeeded with the first two, the languages of online design and presentation. During our...
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How We Twitter
I’ve invited you to experiment with Twitter to give you practice in using English, to introduce the use of enhanced group communications for learning, to help prepare you for the rich and demanding...
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Advice on Final Presentations
It is Monday afternoon, and I’m adding some notes to what I published last week! The Assignment The presentation format should include about 8-12 Powerpoint slides, including screenshots of your...
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