Today I was asked: "How do I write a book review?"
Here's a quick trip about what I found:
My first stop was at Amazon. With each book is a snippet of a responses from readers/buyers/sellers. The purpose of the reviews are simple - take a few seconds to write a sharply worded sentence or two and recommend the book for sale. In a few minutes and swift clicking I can read hundreds of reviews. The reviews are brief, many amounting to glowing praise or stark rebuffs.
Peruse the articles linked below. Find your own sources.
Defend your own position, hyperlink your sources. Contribute to the discussion in the STJ forums. Write your own post in your blog.
Thanks to a few bloggers for helping me work out the bugs in the microcontent code. Movie, music, and video game reviews appear to be the most popular. I still haven't, yet, found a sure fire method of aggregating all the reviews - POGE. The FREEoutputthis.org looks promising.
Anyway, for the time being, trackback your microcontent posts here.
Students can collect news headlines from a variety of RSS sources using their blog as a news aggregator. Writing about the news is one of the more common uses of a blog throughout the blogosphere. Bloggers blend fact and opinion, rant and satire, sarcasm and criticism, objectivity and subjectivity, style and substance.
The snowflake blog deals out an assortment of writing ideas. Students can pick from a variety of prompts. Try not to make any two posts the same.
Send a trackback.
For a while now, every STJ blogger is faced with a "Random Idea" each time the begin a new post. Well, there should be dozens, hunerds, towsands of such posts in our blogosphere by now.
Trackback your "Random Idea" posts here.
