You only have two posts and four comments this week.  Both posts are designed to help you prepare for your midterm, and the comments will also help you study by seeing what others have to say. This week’s blog work could also give your grade a boost. For review, consult the topics on our Whipple Hill course page and the modules in Blackboard. Do these early in the week so that you are not pressed for time later.

• “Brain Dump.” Consider it a study guide. Reflect on everything we’ve done this semester, and make connections among all of the content. Make sure to look at the list of study topics that can be found in the exam assignment on our class page.  Be sure to keep up with your other assignments, readings, and reviewing. The earlier you do this post, the more helpful it becomes.
• Quest- See this handout, Quest for Good Writing Project_2013new, for instructions. Don’t overdo it; just do a good first draft of the assignment. THIS IS NOT AN ESSAY.
• 4 comments- Make sure that you comment on your own classmates’ posts. Read as many of each others’ brain dumps as you can.

• Free Post
• Write a post in which you place what we’re working on now in the larger context of our work this semester. Situate it in the canon debate and also propose texts/topics based on both your research and what we’ve read so far this semester.
• 2 comments- comment on your own classmates
• Choose one writing technique or skill and work on it deliberately in your posts this week. List it in your posts.

Write well and throughout the week.