Please remember that one of the first rules about books for extensive reading is that you should find them interesting. If a book you choose isn't, you should:
- Stop reading it.
- List it in your orange reading log, count only the words on the pages that you've read, and add a comment like, "Pp. 1-3: boring!"
- Find a different book to read.
The screenshot on the right shows settings that I recommend for Blogger blog formatting. If you click on the graphic, it will open into a window where you can read the recommended settings easily. You can open and check these settings through your Dashboard (Manage: Settings), on the Settings and Formatting tabs.
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Rick, aka Pukman @ WinK, writes on a blog that I've listed among Course Links in the sidebar of this blog called "the community that time didn't forget." In a recent post on that blog he recommends sites to visit if you are interested in finding out about movies, new and older, watching and listening to movie trailers, or reading movie reviews (Pukman..., Movie sites, 2005.05.16).As I dropped by to see how you're coming on your book reviews, I noticed that the text color you chose for your review of Another World is almost impossible to make out against the dark background from the blog template that you've chosen. If you are keen on using dark colors for text, you should choose a template with a light background to make what you write easier to see and read.While most ready-made blog templates respect these general design principles with automatic text colors, some of you obviously like to play with the colors yourselves. If you do, please remember that the opposite is also true. That is, if you have chosen a blog design with a light or white background, you should choose black or dark text colors if you are going to change them.
... Which places did you enjoy visiting the most?
Why don't you write separate blog post[s] about at least one place in each prefecture. That would get you started towards the 60+ posts you need for Writing III this semester.
While you're at it, why don't you add a few pictures to give all of your readers a sense of what they're missing when they sit in front of a computer instead of heading out on the road again?
Thanks for excluding the lyrics from your word count.If you include in any post more than a few words of which you are not the author, please exclude them from your blog post word counts. Do remember that we require word counts (in square brackets, at the lower corner next to the sidebar) on every post for Writing III and IV.
I hope you enjoy the holidays, too, and even get some blogging done during them. One thing you really need to do is add word counts to all of your posts for Writing III. Please don't wait any longer to start counting! [emphases added]
Hi ...,
I'd like to ask you to do me three favors:
1) Would you please use the key string + number prefix that I've explained in class, and spelled out in WSB 1-01 in the title of all of your book reviews: past, present, and future? That will make them easy to find in your archive.
2) Would you please label all of your book reviews with at least these two labels: "books" and "reviews"? Then they will show up in various searches.
3) Last, but not least important, would you please ask [cajole/remind/tell] all of your classmates and peers in courses that I teach to do the same?
Cheers.
I've been wondering the same thing, as has Rick, who commented on your April 16, 2008, reading habits post.
Why don't you make a new blog post that explains to everyone how to do it, and then point out the new post in responses to comments here and there?
I'll be waiting to read your follow-ups.
Where did you get the definitions of the words [that] you listed at the end of BR 1-07: Snow Games?If you are using any content at all from other sources, you must mark it clearly, and spell out where you got it. For example, I've formatted all of the comment clippings in this post as block quotations, and italicized them so they stand out from the original text of this post. Now I'll spell out, in general, where they're from.
Oops, I made a mistake in my previous comment, but there was no way to edit it. So I've copied, pasted, and corrected it here:...Do you know how to make word counts align with the... [right] margin, to make them easy to spot at a glance? If not, please ask in class, and I'll show you.
I guess I am too anxious to get out; I typed two mistakes [three, actually (I've just found one more)] in the first paragraph of my previous comment, and then hit the publish button instead of the preview button....
Anyway, here is what I posted earlier, cut, pasted, and corrected in this new comment (I hope I get it right this time):Hey ...,
It sound[-s] like you had a nice road-trip this spring. How many friend[-s] went with you[?]...
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