Hi everyone. Welcome to English 450. I'll use this blog to update and post assignments and reflections, and I'll link from it to the blogs I'm requiring you to keep this semester as well. That's your first assignment, in fact - go to the upper corner of this web page and click on "create blog." There, you'll get a set of instructions about how to set up a blog. (If you are more comfortable with another blogging service, please use that instead.) Give it a title, at least. Then, do the next part:
I'd like your first entry to be about about the things your writing teachers have recommended you do before you start writing - pre-writing, some teachers call it. What kinds of exercises and activities did they recommend? What did they call it? What were the goals of pre-writing activities?
UPDATE: I forgot that there is a version of the Encomium of Helen in our course text (On Rhetoric by Aristotle) - that appears on page 283 - please use this instead, if you get this notice in time! - that overrides the link in the next paragraph!
(****Also, I want you to read Encomium of Helen by Gorgias, a text by an early Sophist.)
Please write down at least one question about something you did not understand, and include that question in your first entry as well.
After you've posted your first entry to the blog, send me the link and the title. Please have this finished before midnight on Tuesday. I will use your entries in class on Wednesday.
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