Showing posts with label brainstorms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label brainstorms. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

My Start-Up Labels (2013)

This post is a derivation from a previous post on the Writing Studio Blog, Start-up labels (2012), April 22, 2012.

Here are labels that you will need to use for required posts on your blogs:



  • books, brainstorms, drafts, essay prep., essays, fiction, free-writing, graphics, links, media, mind-maps, movies, non-fiction, outlines, quickposts, references, reviews, revisions, typing, websites (20)

For example, on book reviews, you will need to use at least four (4) labels, including:



  • books, references, reviews, ... (all comma-spaced values [CSVs]); plus:
    • fiction, OR
    • non-fiction.

The label "references," and the minimum number "four (4)" for book reviews (above), are new for 1st semester this year. All book review posts will need APA-style references, for which your instructor will provide models and templates, from 1st semester onward.

Please feel free to use other suitable labels, as well. For example, genre labels like "adventure," "biography," or "history" (one or another, without quotation marks) are welcome. That is, as long as they reflect the content of individual book review posts.
For details on how to use other required labels, please see Sheet 1 in the Labels and Links page on the Writing Studio Blog.

Now, to jump-start your labels collections, please:



  1. Copy and paste the 20 labels in the first list above into a new draft post on your own blog;
  2. Entitle the new draft post, "My Start-Up Labels" (in title case, without quotation marks);
  3. Copy and paste the labels in the list above into the Labels field on the draft start-up labels post;
  4. Publish the start-up labels post on your blog; and then
  5. Add a labels gadget to the sidebar of your blog.
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Note: At present, the maximum number of labels that you can put on a post is twenty (20).

Once you've published your start-up labels posts, with 20 labels in the label field as well as in the body of the posts, the labels will show up in your Labels gadget. Then, when you compose new posts, you will be able to choose appropriate labels for required posts, rather than having to type them in by hand.



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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

My Startup Labels

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


[20 words]

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

pab's potpourri: Winter Sports: Brainstorm

This is a cross-post from pab's potpourri: Winter Sports: Brainstorm: "WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 2010

Winter Sports: Brainstorm

  • Sports
  • Winter sports
  • Olympics
  • Snow and ice
  • Ice skating
  • Ice hockey
  • Curling
  • Arena
  • Players
  • Equipment
  • Rules
  • Scoring
  • Ends?
  • Officials
  • TV broadcasts
  • NHK
  • Teams
  • Aomori
  • Nagano
  • Canada

[26 {+6} words]
POSTED BY PAB AT 09:31
LABELS: BRAINSTORMS, ESSAY PREP., SPORTS"

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Startup Labels (example)


Startup labels:

  • books, brainstorms, drafts, essay prep., essays, free-writing, graphics, links, media, movies, outlines, quickposts, reviews, [revisions,] typing, websites
[19 {+ 1} words]

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Word Borrowed Perfectly: Japanese to English

This post reflects a note I scribbled on a bit of paper while watching television months ago, October 28, to be precise. It was about a word borrowed from Japanese, and - if my ears had not deceived me after two listenings (17:00+ and 21:00+) - perfectly so into English.

I say perfectly, because an NHK News in English announcer's usage of the adopted word represented adaptation of a common, stand-alone Japanese noun generally unmarked for number, to make it into a plural noun marked with an -s, or rather, with the sound /-z/.

Can anyone guess what that word was? There will be a grab-bag surprise for the author of the first accurately spelled guess in a comment on this post by a current Writing Studio participant. You must appear in person during a class meeting to collect the prize.

Here is a bit of context from the note for a hint; the "It" refers to a letter reportedly discovered in Kumamoto:
  • "It had been sent to ...-s [n., pl.] of the Fukui domain."
Good luck brainstorming! Please post your best guesses in comments on this post.
[188 words]

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Learning with Computers (LwC): Class Outlines

The class outlines depicted below represent the main points that you should cover in the sixth essay assigned for this semester. We collected main points, topics, and sub-topics from individual lists of ideas that students brainstormed and posted as essay prep., brainstorms and quickposts in class, then combined related items and created hierarchies from them to construct working outlines.

The outline from Writing IV, §1a, is in two overlapping parts; the outline from §1c is in one part. If you click on the images (below), you can get full-size views.
  1. LwC_outlines20081210_1a-1.png,
  2. LwC_outlines20081210_1a-2.png, and
  3. LwC_outlines20081210_1c-0.png
You should feel free to adopt ideas for topics and sub-topics from either class outline, and add your own supporting ideas (anecdotes, arguments, examples, opinions [, reasons {pab, 2008.12.11}]), but make certain to cover all of the main points from the outline for your own class. Details in the outlines, especially "Other...?", you may treat as variables.

LwC_outlines20081210_1a-1.png
LwC_outlines20081210_1a-2.png
LwC_outlines20081210_1c-0.png

If you have questions or concerns about how to use these outlines to compose and organize your essays, please spell them out in individual comments on this post well in advance of the due date (Writing Studio Calendar: 6th essays...). Finally, please remember to label all assigned essays, and only assigned essays, with the label "essays" (plural, no capitalization).
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Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Favorite Place(s): Brainstorm 02a

Quiet
Few or no other people
Sky
Stars
Clouds
Grass
Flowers
Comfortable chair
Cool (not hot) or cold
Fresh, crisp, cool or cold air
Cold beer or mulled wine
Music
Bluegrass
animals: birds, humming birds, insects, worms, cockroaches, spiders
[39 words]

Favorite place(s): Brainstorm 01

These words and phrases are the outcomes of approximately 90 seconds of brainstorming, thinking out loud, while typing a list in a word-processing document.

Quiet
Few or no people
Sky
Stars
Grass
Fresh air
Comfortable
Cool (not hot)
Music
Outdoors
[41 words]
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