Friday, October 24, 2008

Taking pride in your blogs....

Hi, everyone. I think you've been doing a fantastic job on your blogs....I like what you've been saying. It's been so much fun to read them.

As you know, I haven't asked you to write them perfectly. That's not the point. They're more a way of working on your fluency. Having said this, I'm noticing (at times) a few things that I don't think are OK:

--starting sentences without a capital letter
--sloppy writing with little or no proofreading
--disjointed thinking

Over the next week, I will come up with a checklist, which you'll need to use when writing. Until then, please:

--write your blogs a little more carefully; proofread and correct errors
--start sentences with capital letters (these are not text messages, after all)
--put some thought into what you're writing
--try not to write about the same thing over and over again...variety is the spice of life!

:)

PS--If you want help with proofreading, just ask Salah. He's caught errors in my blogs, and I'm not embarrassed to admit it. (Everyone needs an editor--even professional writers!) You can also ask Cristian....he's also got a knack for cleaning up grammar.

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