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/////
(Source: The Writing Studio Blog, Start-up Labels, 2012.04.22; ...
[used with author's permission])
[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:
- Add a labels gadget to the sidebar of your blog, then
- Copy and paste the labels between hashmarks in the list above into a new draft post on your own blog;
- Entitle the new draft post, "My Start-up Labels" (in title case without quotation marks);
- Copy and paste the same labels into the Labels field on your draft start-up labels post; and
- 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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