Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Writing Studio Bulletin 1-01 (2008)

This is the first Writing Studio Bulletin for this year. The number in the title indicates that it is the first one for this spring semester (2008). From now on I'll use the abbreviation WSB plus numbers and a subtitle. This bulletin includes two items:
  1. Writing Studio Wiki: News and Updates
  2. Book Reviews: Numbers, Titles, and Labels
Writing Studio Wiki: News and Updates
  • The Writing Studio Wiki is the first place to go for every class. I list significant changes on a yellow notepad in the upper right corner of the home page. Today it looks like this:



Book Reviews: Numbers, Titles, and Labels


For your book reviews this semester, I'd like you to use a uniform title consisting of abbreviations, numbers, and short book titles, like these examples, but without bullets in your actual blog post titles:
  • BR 1-01: Mountains Beyond Mountains
  • BR 1-02: Tuesdays with Morrie
  • BR 1-03: ...
That's "BR" for Book Review, "1-..." for first semester, "...-01" for your first review this semester, then "...-02" and "...-03" for your next couple of reviews. Please note these typographic details:
  • Single digits for semester numbers,
  • Double-digits (with leading zeros now) for review numbers,
  • Single spaces between the abbreviations and the numbers, and
  • Single spaces between the colons (":") and the short book titles.
Last but not least, please remember to label all of your book reviews with at least two labels:
  • books, reviews, ... (and more specific ones, if you like).
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1 comment:

  1. To review all of the Writing Studio Bulletins posted so far (at least all of those that I've labeled properly), I suggest that you click on the label "bulletins" in the alphabetical list of labels in the sidebar.

    If you have concerns or questions about the information in any bulletin, please spell them out in a comment on that blog post, and make certain to enable follow-up comments to your gmail address by checking the box next to "Email follow-up comments...." Then I'll follow-up either in class or in similar comments as soon as possible.

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