Welcome to the English 401 blog

Welcome to the English 401 blog. This blog serves to link the collective reading response journals of students enrolled in English 401 (Composition Theory and Research) at Elmhurst College. These student blogs include responses to course readings from Cross-Talk in Composition and other course texts. Each reading response should

• Summarize the article’s argument and its major evidence and/or implications.
• Explore connections between the article and your own experiences of learning to write and/or of being taught to write. (Note that learning to write and being taught to write are not necessarily the same experiences.)
• Compare, contrast, and/or synthesize this article with at least one other article we have read.

Before you can start posting your reading responses, you'll first need to create your blog. Log on to www.blogger.com and follow the on-screen instructions. Create an account, invent a creative title, select a template, and add pictures or a personal profile, if you like. The only required element for your blog are the reading responses; the rest is up to you.

When you've created your blog, email the URL to bridgeto@elmhurst.edu, and I'll link your blog to this page so that your classmates can visit and comment on your blog.

What you should not post on your blog: Please do not post any personal information about you, your classmates, or your peer tutoring client. Unlike the course Blackboard, this is a public space--anyone with an Internet connection can view what you post to your blog. Reflections on your peer tutoring experience should be posted to the English 401 Blackboard (Practicum Groups page).

For those of you who are, like me, new to the blogosphere: Welcome, and Happy Blogging!