Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Best Reviews 1.0 (2008)

Today you will have an opportunity to nominate five reviews written to fulfill fourth essay requirements this semester. You may nominate one review for each of five categories ( below), and you may nominate your own review for no more than one of them. The categories open for nominations are:
  1. Best Title [of post, rather than blog],
  2. Easiest to Read [and understand],
  3. Most Informative or Opinionated,
  4. Most Interesting or Unusual, and
  5. Most Visually Appealing [best layout].
To find blogs to nominate:
a) browse each of the blogs in the list for your class,
b) locate the fourth essay on each blog, and
c) make sure it is a review that meets all of the following ... [requirements]:
  • The review has a short, catchy title;
  • It is at least 400 words in length;
  • It includes no copied or machine translated content;
  • It consists of at least five paragraphs five sentences in length; AND
  • It has at least two labels, one of which is "essays" (the plural form, spelled accurately [emphases added]).
To nominate blogs for each category, post comments on the corresponding Writing Studio Blog posts [1.1 - 1.5: see links, below]. In your comments, include:
  1. The author's blog handle (typed accurately, or copied and pasted),
  2. The title of the essay (copied and pasted from the blog itself, for accuracy), and
  3. Your own reasons (two or more) for nominating it, for:
If you have questions about the nominating process, please post your questions in comments on this post. Nominations themselves must be on the corresponding post for each category.
Comments on the essay posts are optional, but nice. [Please feel free to comment directly on classmates posts after class.]

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2 comments:

  1. 1.1 The Best Essay's title writer is Aaaai.
    This title is "♥Sightseeing〜the Udo Shrine〜Our Wishes Come True♥"
    Because Her title was intrigue for reading this Essay. I could know essay's rough content only read this title. I thought Her title is good because it is plain.

    !.2 Easiest to Read
    Ayaka' essay. "Music" Because It was inserted on essay, and her letter is easy to read. Whem I read this, I thought it is interesting.

    1.3 Mst Infornative or Opinionated
    BIGBOSS's essay. "Essay 1-4 HIM" Because it was written about HIM particularity. I don't know about HIM before, but I could know about it because I read this essay.

    1.4 Most interesting or Unusual
    nojomi's essay. "Essay 1-04(amusement): Love Fantasy" Because it was written about Desney land with many picture. And I thought its sudjet matter is interesting.

    1.5 Most Visually Appealing

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  2. I've issued certificates via gmail, and announced Writing Studio Award winners in a separate post: Writing Studio Award Winners: Best Reviews 1 (2008.06.28).

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