Tuesday, April 15, 2014

A Rack of Start-up Labels


Between the hash marks below is a set of labels to add to new posts on individual blogs:

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books, brainstorms, drafts, essay prep., essays, fiction, free-writing, graphics, links, media, movies, non-fiction, outlines, quickposts, reviews, revisions, typing, websites

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(Source: The Writing Studio Blog, Start-up Labels, 2012.04.22; ...
[used with author's permission])

Some of the labels are required. For example, on book reviews, you will need to use at least three labels during 1st semester, including: "books, ...," PLUS, "fiction, …," OR "non-fiction, …" AND "reviews, …"  (all comma-separated values without quotation marks or ellipsis). You are welcome to use other suitable labels for book reviews as well, such as genre labels like "adventure, ..., " "history, ...," or "romance, ...," as long as they suit the content of your [book review] posts . 

For instructions on using the other labels, please see the Labels and Link Lists page.

Now, to jump-start your own label collections, please:
  1. Add a labels gadget to the sidebar of your blog, then
  2. Copy and paste the labels between hashmarks in the list above into a new draft post on your own blog;
  3. Entitle the new draft post, "My Start-up Labels" (in title case without quotation marks);
  4. Copy and paste the same labels into the Labels field on your draft start-up labels post; and
  5. Publish your start-up labels post on your blog....
Once you've published your start-up labels post, with those labels in the label field as well as [in] the body of the post, the labels will show up in your Labels gadget. Later, when you label new posts or re-label previous posts, you will be able to quickly choose appropriate labels for required and other posts, rather than typing them all in [by hand].

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1 comment:

  1. It was necessary to shorten the ready-made list of labels in this post on the spot on Wed., Apr. 23, because the list of recommended or required labels was too long for Blogger to accept in the labels fields of students' posts. So I have edited the cross-reference and revised the word count downward.

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