Welcome!

What's the Purpose of the Blog Project?

English 110 hones analytical habits of mind that are meant to be naturalized and used outside of the classroom. Therefore, the Blog Project takes the analysis you use throughout the ARP and Commonplace, and gives you the chance to practice applying it to the public writing you already interact with in your everyday life. As you become accustomed to making this analytical move on your own, you will develop into a more aware, critically thinking citizen of the world.

Our Blog

Now that we know the purpose of the Blog Project in English 110, let's spend a little bandwidth on discussing the nature of our own class blog! So Fall Bloomers 2011 is meant to provide all of us a common platform to voice our opinions, analyze each other's takes on issues and learn something from each other through these virtual discussions. The posts on this blog need not adhere to the course theme (or the blog theme of Fall Blooming plants!) but we are all expected to use our discretion and not post anything that we think can hurt others' sentiments.


For the blog project, the class will be divided into 6 groups and each group will be asked to put up an article on the class blog by a certain due date. The rest of the class will be expected to join in the discussion by responding to the post with comments. The group will then be expected to assimilate the online discussion and create a presentation to be delivered in the class for duration of 10 minutes.

Here's the schedule and we'll form the groups in class.

Group 1: Blog due on 30th Sept., Comments due on 2nd Oct., Presentation 5th Oct.
Group 2: Blog due on 7th Oct., Comments due on 9th Oct., Presentation 12th Oct.
Group 3: Blog due on 14th Oct., Comments due on 16th Oct., Presentation 19th Oct.
Group 4: Blog due on 21st Oct., Comments due on 23rd Oct., Presentation 26th Oct.
Group 5: Blog due on 28th Oct., Comments due on 20th Oct., Presentation 2nd Nov.
Group 6: Blog due on 4th Nov., Comments due on 6th Nov., Presentation 9th Nov.

Happy Blogging!