Paperbag Writer

Hi all and welcome to this new term!

As you may already know, this term we will be using the lab to work on blogs. The idea is that you express yourselves and interact using them.

The blogs system is quite simple. Each week you will have a task which you will have to carry out. There will be a topic and a specific number of words that you will have to use to develop this topic. Additionally, you will have to post comments on your classmates' entries. This last part is also obligatory!

If you do the whole task during class you will get 2 points for the corresponding blog session. If you do it at home, you will get 1 point*. And if you never do it you'll get 0 points. These activities are part of the portfolio mark, so it is very important that you do them.

In order to start working with the blogs, you will have to create your own blog and customize it. 

To create your blog, go to www.blogger.com. Your blog has to be ENTIRELY in English, so make sure you select that language in the settings of your blog.

Once you have created your blog you can customize it, using your favourite pictures or photos on the background, special fonts, colours, etc.. If you don't know how to do this, explore! This is also a useful way of getting familiar with the blogger's language in English.

Is your blog ready? Send your blog's address to the course e-mail argumentative2012@gmail.com.

Now it's time to write this week's task.

Since this is the first week of the Argumentative Writing course, we want you to write about....

WRITING!! Yes, it took us ages to come up with this idea ;) No, but seriously, this is an excellent way of getting in the mood for what's coming this term.

You can cover these points as a way of helping you develop this topic:

- Do you like writing? Why?/Why not?

- How do you feel about writing in English? Is it easier/more difficult for you than writing in your mother tongue? Why?

- Have you ever had to write an essay or paper in your mother tongue? What about English? How did that go?/How do you think it would go (if you haven't already done it)?

- What do you expect to learn in this course? Do you think it will be useful knowledge? Why? What for?

- Etc.

• Your entry has to be written in 120-150 words. 
• Leave comments in 2 of your classmates' entries.